I had thought, when I heard that they were seeding the number ones in the brackets, that they were re-seeding the final four, so that the highest remaining seed played the lowest remaining seed. Not so. They merely seeded the region’s number one seeds, so that the number one nuumber one seed played the number four number one seed (which resulted in Kentucky’s region pitted against St.Joe’s region).

I like my original impressions better. Re-seed the final four, and let the number one overall play the lowest overall. I suppose that would put too much power in the hands of the committee. Plus, I WOULD think that since Kentucky would reap all those “benefits” this year. Oh well. So Duke did lose out on getting pitted against St. Joe’s instead of Stanford by losing to Maryland. I still like that , as Kentucky fan.