{"id":1609,"date":"2017-03-19T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/bracketology\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2017-03-19T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:30:40","slug":"simple-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2017\/03\/19\/simple-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Math?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it wasn&#8217;t as complicated as we all made it out to be.&#160; It&#8217;s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>The committee laid it out, just as we always do when we try to analyze where each team will go.<\/p>\n<p>Then after seeing that there were no intraconference matchups, they made one switch &#8211; Cornell and Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The only reasoning I can see behind that is that they wanted to avoid a potential second round matchup between two teams that just played in a championship game.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they couldn&#8217;t really do that with the West Regional bracket where Minnesota-Duluth and North Dakota could meet in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>My question would be why only this one change of the bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it&#8217;s simple math and laying it out as we do every week.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun next weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it wasn&#8217;t as complicated as we all made it out to be.&#160; It&#8217;s as simple as that. 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