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we need tp be the 5 seed :)

Isn't the SEC hosting the games in Birmingham? If so I think that means there's a very slight possibility we could play here

They have all the Bham games as 1 v 16 and 8 v 9

(04-19-2022 01:48 PM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  They have all the Bham games as 1 v 16 and 8 v 9

If we get a good 3pt shooter in the portal then I don't see why we can't be an 8 or 9. Is it finalized that Birmingham would be getting those seeded games or is that just strictly projection

(04-19-2022 01:48 PM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  They have all the Bham games as 1 v 16 and 8 v 9

Who's they? The NCAA doesn't predetermine seed locations for 1st/2nd Round sites.

(04-19-2022 01:52 PM)blazerjay Wrote:  

(04-19-2022 01:48 PM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  They have all the Bham games as 1 v 16 and 8 v 9

Who's they? The NCAA doesn't predetermine seed locations for 1st/2nd Round sites.

ESPN....again, this is Bracketology which is just a guys guess on all this

(04-19-2022 01:40 PM)UABrandon Wrote:  Isn't the SEC hosting the games in Birmingham? If so I think that means there's a very slight possibility we could play here

There is absolutely no possibility of UAB playing a first round game in Birmingham.

(04-19-2022 03:54 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(04-19-2022 01:40 PM)UABrandon Wrote:  Isn't the SEC hosting the games in Birmingham? If so I think that means there's a very slight possibility we could play here

There is absolutely no possibility of UAB playing a first round game in Birmingham.

Why is there no possibility. If the SEC is the host conference and the BJCC isn't our home court then we can play there in the first two rounds.

We just can't play in the sweet sixteen if it were there.

At least that used to be the case. Maybe it has changed.

(04-19-2022 04:29 PM)BlazerDave Wrote:  

(04-19-2022 03:54 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(04-19-2022 01:40 PM)UABrandon Wrote:  Isn't the SEC hosting the games in Birmingham? If so I think that means there's a very slight possibility we could play here

There is absolutely no possibility of UAB playing a first round game in Birmingham.

Why is there no possibility. If the SEC is the host conference and the BJCC isn't our home court then we can play there in the first two rounds.

We just can't play in the sweet sixteen if it were there.

At least that used to be the case. Maybe it has changed.

Actually UAB could play in the Sweet 16 in Birmingham. I'll also take back what I said about UAB having zero chance of playing a first round game in Birmingham. You're right in that since the SEC is hosting it UAB could play a 1st round in Birmingham. It would take an extraordinary set of circumstances for it to happen but the committee has in the past placed lower seeded teams closer to home.

Here is an excerpt of the seeding process for the tournament from Wikipedia:

Quote:Any team may be sent to any region and any pod, although the tournament does try to keep teams, especially the top-seeded teams, closer to home. However, in 2004, Pittsburgh played its first two tournament games in Milwaukee and not in Buffalo or Columbus, cities to which it was closer. This was done to keep a lower-seeded team, the Wisconsin Badgers, close to its campus. Similarly, two east-coast teams, Maryland and Syracuse, traveled to Denver, where their opening round opponents were BYU and UTEP, both of which were geographically closer to Denver. In addition, in 2009, Kansas and West Virginia, the two higher seeds, traveled to Minneapolis to play their opponents North Dakota State and Dayton, although Dayton and North Dakota State are geographically closer to Minneapolis than Kansas and West Virginia. To make matters worse for both latter teams, Kansas City (Kansas) and Greensboro NC (West Virginia) were both 1st-2nd round sites that year.

A number of complex rules govern the seeding process, so it is not as simple as merely following the S-curve, although that is the top priority according to the NCAA's rules.Better teams have priority in remaining close to home, but no hosting institution's team can actually play at the location where the institution is hosting tournament games (generally, games are hosted on neutral courts, so this is not usually a problem). Sometimes a top team may be a short drive away from its games; in 2006 Villanova played its first and second round games in Philadelphia at an arena where they had played three games that year, one fewer than the four required for a site to be considered a "home court" for a team, and in 2002 the Pitt Panthers played their first and second round games in the city of Pittsburgh at Mellon Arena (which was not their home court after the opening of their on-campus arena).

NCAA Basketball Tournament Selection Process

We should shoot to be the five seed :)