The NCAA women\u2019s tournament is introducing a change in how the top 16 seeds will be positioned in the bracket.<\/p>\n
The chair of the NCAA women\u2019s basketball committee said they will no longer make tweaks to the order of those top 16 teams that they used to make to avoid putting conference rivals in the same regions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe put a lot of time into establishing those top 16 teams in the order they go in,\u201d committee chair Amanda Braun told the Associated Press on Monday. \u201cYou\u2019re splitting hairs to decide who has the edge and some of that is undone by those principles. To all of us, the work we did and the work those teams did justifies keeping them where they are in that group of 16.\u201d<\/p>\n
This past March, LSU was the committee\u2019s fifth overall team and was dropped to seventh to avoid putting the Tigers in the same region as No. 4 overall seed South Carolina. Vanderbilt got bumped from seventh to eighth for the same reason.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s selection committee is not adopting the same policy, however. They\u2019ll still work to place the top seeds from the same conference into different regions.<\/p>\n
Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments are expanding to 76 teams in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA women\u2019s tournament is introducing a change in how the top 16 seeds will be positioned in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-801302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}