NCAA Tourney Rankings Question

[Rich Kern]

Shown below is the Mountain Division pairings where 1 plays 2 and 3
plays 4 and then the winners play ... you know the routine. The NCAA
Selection committee says they only rank the first 4 in each Region (the
ranks are the last column) but by inference I think they would also
match up the 16th place team with the 1st, the 15th with the 2nd, etc.
That takes care of 1-4 and 13-16. Typically brackets like this are set
up based on ranking each team by some criteria so it also seems that the
postion of the other teams imply a ranking and I made a guess on those
rankings.

1 Long Beach State (30-0) 1
2 Southern (19-12) 16
3 Arizona (21-6) 8
4 Fresno State (18-10) 9
5 Colorado (21-7) 12
6 San Jose State (21-11) 5
7 Illinois (20-10) 4
8 Southwest Texas State (25-8) 13
9 Colorado State (23-7) 6
10 South Carolina (21-10) 11
11 Texas (24-4) 3
12 Wisconsin-Milwaukee (25-5) 14
13 Notre Dame (17-12) 10
14 Eastern Washington (24-5) 7
15 Stanford (25-3) 2
16 Southeast Missouri State (24-11) 15

First is my assumption correct that the other positions imply a ranking
and second is my assumed ranking correct?

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Rich Kern
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[Chris Crader]

After they seed the top 16 (including Long Beach, Illinois, Texas and
Stanford), the other teams are grouped into regions based on which
districts they are in, and then with teams moved around if necessary to
get 12 additional teams in each region. These teams are seeded 5-16
based on strength, but there may be slight adjustments made for travel
considerations (i.e., Eastern Washington may not have really been the 10
seed, they may have been the 9 or 11, but were slightly tweaked so they
only had to go to Palo Alto, instead of Austin or Long Beach or
Champaign or whatever). As for your seeds, I would guess you have
flipped SJSU and Colorado, and Notre Dame and E. Washington. But, yeah,
that's how it works.

Chris Crader