Their fans are pretty lustfully cheering against us and outnumber us. Go X.
How did Illinois (as a 6 seed) get a site 3.5 hours from their campus?
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Same way Louisville got to play 70 miles away.
I wouldn't worry about it. Fans won't determine the outcome Sunday (if IL is even there)
Vegas thinks otherwise but who knows. It will be a tough game either way for us but I’d rather not play against 75% Illinois crowd
The committee thinks teams still travel to games via cart and buggy so tries to put everyone as close to home as possible instead of using a true S curve since it’s 2025
It’s not just 3 1/2 hours from Champaign, but 90 miles from Chicago. There is a HUGE UofI alumni base in Chicago.
Even with UK’s best travel efforts (this does not appear to be one), the fan base would have been vastly outnumbered.
Go Xavier.
Even with UK’s best travel efforts (this does not appear to be one), the fan base would have been vastly outnumbered.
Go Xavier.
Same way UL as an 8 seed traveled a little over an hour to play, and Duke in any other year plays a near home game as less than the top 2 of 4 of whatever their seeding is, and same as us playing in Milwaukie against a much lower seed in the tourney within a couple hours of said Illinois or Wisconsin opponent's home court. SSDD. You kinda get used to it after a while
We packed the arena for the SEC tournament and it was a bust. We will win or lose regardless of the fans.
Packed it but it was pretty quiet against Bama from the jump
The OU game put a hangover on everybody
Could honestly just be random. They like to try to get the 1 seeds and sometimes the 2 seeds close to home as a bit of a perk for achieving that kind of status, but the rest of the bracket still has to be built somehow. It would be way too much of a headache to ensure that the higher seeded team is the one playing closer to home in every single game.
