[Husker] NU regional

[Mark J Norris]

-- Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:
On the same subject, it appears at first glance that Miami, which is
a lower seed than Nebraska, has an easier regional.  The #2 seed in
Miami is Mississippi St. and the #2 seed in Lincoln is NC St. Does Miami get an easier regional because they are Miami or is this
just a result of geographic considerations (although I'm guessing
sending Mississippi St to Lincoln and NC St to Miami wouldn't have
increased total mileage much and might have decreased it)?  Why does
NU have such a tough #2 seed?

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Just for the fun of it I put this together:
(* denotes automatic bids)

1. (# 1) * Tulane  1
2. Ala  30
3. LA-Laf  41
4. * South U  144

1. (# 16) LSU  15
2. * Rice  25
3. NW St  38
4. * Marist  128

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1.  (# 9) LB St  17
2.  USC  16
3. * Pepp  34
4. * RI  90

1. * (# 8) OSU  13
2.  Virg  24
3.  St John's  55
4. * OSU  64

----------1.  (# 5) Miss  4
2.  S Miss  33
3.  OU  40
4. * Maine  98

1.  (# 12 ) UT  3
2.  Ark 22
3. * M (OH)  43
4. * Quinn  166

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1.  (# 13) Clem  6
2.  Coll of Char  10
3. * ORU  69
4. * NC A&T  228

1.  (# 4) Baylor  5
2.  TCU  28
3.  Stan  39
4. * UT-SA  132

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----------1. (# 2) * Ga Tech  2
2. S Car.  32
3. Mich  46
4. * Furman  102

1. (# 15) Tenn  29
2. * Winthrop  20
3. * WSU  36
4. * Austin P 142

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1. (# 10) FSU  23
2. Auburn  19
3. * S AL 51
4. * Army  95

1. (# 7) Flo  9
2. N Car 8
3. * ND  60
4. * Stetson  57

----------1. (# 6) * Cal St Full   11
2. Ari  35
3. Missouri  49
4. * Harvard  96

1.  (# 11) Coastal Car  14
2. ASU  27
3. E Car  44
4. * UNLV  109

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1. (# 14) Miami  7
2. * MS St  21
3. FL Atl  37
4. * VA Comm. 99

1. (# 3) * NU  18
2. NC St  12
3. CU  48
4. * Ill-Chi  149



In NU's regional we get the third lowest RPI team, a regional team in CU (the next northern site is Tennessee) and an ACC team. With the SEC and ACC receiving 16 bids I bet they had a hard time finding the right bracket for them. They managed to keep them out of the same brackets except 4 times - and there it is an SEC team against an SEC team. and then a #1 SEC seed would play a #1 ACC seed. NC St finished 6th in the ACC regular season, and they went 1-2 in the ACC tourney, first beating #3 Miami 2-1, and then losing to #7 Virginia 12-2 and #2 Clemson 5-4. NC St has a high RPI because they play in ACC:

# 2 GA Tech
# 6 Clemson
# 7 Miami
# 8 UNC
# 12 NC St.
# 23 FSU
# 24 UV