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
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.
