freelion

December 28th, 2018 at 12:25 AM ^

We are usually on the bubble in bracketology at this point so this is an impressive start. I hope they didn't peak too early though!

Blue_Bull_Run

December 28th, 2018 at 11:57 AM ^

???? 'em 

But for real, how do the regions get decided? Selfishly I kinda hope UM goes to the east because then I could go watch at the Verizon center. Pretty sure that's the only chance that UM will play in DC this year, right? 

MichiganG

December 28th, 2018 at 2:12 PM ^

The regions are generally decided by the interests of the respective teams (generally, closest distance to where the team is from). But within each seed line, preference is given to the team with the higher rank so they start with the #1 #1 and place them in their ‘ideal’ location, then the second #1 seed, etc.  There are a bunch of other rules that can especially impact this as you get below the first seed line or two.