[Farm93]

The earlier teams get really important advantages.

1) They know when they will start, so they can do maintain their normal pregame warm-up process.   The second game teams always have to arrive on time and then often need to alter their pregame routine if the first game is running long or goes into OT.

2) The first game winning team coaching staff gets to scout the next game.   And the losing team doesn't need to worry about scouting at all.   The second game teams need to allocate some staff to the first game while simultaneously managing the pregame routine for the team.

Those are rather important advantages for the team, and at the end of the day I want the team to win this thing.   So I am happy to see them get every possible advantage, and actually I am thrilled that they were not given the normal West Coast team burden of playing in the latest possible time slot.  

I do suspect that UofA will not be able to keep it close so quite likely the first game will be more entertaining for the casual basketball fan.  I hope UofA keeps it close or wins, but I just don't think UofA matches up well to UConn.

[Farm93]

The earlier teams get really important advantages.

1) They know when they will start, so they can do maintain their normal pregame warm-up process.   The second game teams always have to arrive on time and then often need to alter their pregame routine if the first game is running long or goes into OT.

2) The first game winning team coaching staff gets to scout the next game.   And the losing team doesn't need to worry about scouting at all.   The second game teams need to allocate some staff to the first game while simultaneously managing the pregame routine for the team.

Those are rather important advantages for the team, and at the end of the day I want the team to win this thing.   So I am happy to see them get every possible advantage, and actually I am thrilled that they were not given the normal West Coast team burden of playing in the latest possible time slot.  

I do suspect that UofA will not be able to keep it close so quite likely the first game will be more entertaining for the casual basketball fan.  I hope UofA keeps it close or wins, but I just don't think UofA matches up well to UConn.