(12-02-2019, 03:38 PM)Gary86 Wrote: USC is the #4 seed in the tournament, which is why they are on the same side of the bracket as Stanford. Can't say I agree with the #4 seeding but that's what the NCAA came up with. UOP's #2 seeding is also debatable.
Are you sure those are the seedings?
[I don't know; the NCAA has been very coy about seeding for this tournament.]
Neither the official tournament bracket, nor the announcement specifies seeding - other than to note that the top two seeds are automatically in the semifinal (Stanford and UOP).
By virtue of how the bracket is constructed, it would appear that $C is seeded above Pepperdine/Davis as they get to play the winner of the Harvard-Bucknell play-in game (Harvard). That would make $C the third seed. Then if you follow standard bracket structure Stanford would be the two seed. This would make UOP's #1 seed even more debatable.
Of course it could be that they have the #4 seed playing the winner of the #6-#7 play-in game, and then the #3 and #5 seeds play - but that would be equally odd.
As I noted in the MPSF thread, the bracket construction would indicate the following seeds:
#7 - Bucknell
#6 - Harvard (hosting 6-7 game)
#5/4 - Davis
#4/5 - Pepperdine
#3 - $C
#2 - Stanford
#1 - Pacific