Tournament seeding question

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The 64th and 65th seeds play to see which team makes the field of 64. Would not the winner then be playing the number one seed in the tournament, Duke this year? The play in winner will play Villanova. Not an earth shattering issue but I'm not grasping the rationale behind the placement of the 64th seeded team.

[Renew Deal]

1. That's the funny thing about it.

People say Duke is the #1 of the #1 seeds. That's BS. All 4 number #1 seeds are very good. Duke might be in the toughest bracket. They potentially play GW in the second round who was #7 to #10 all year. The next bracket is tough between LSU, Syracuse, Texas A&M and even Iona. The other half bracket isn't so bad depending on how WV and Texas play.

[fishwax]

2. It's b/c the site for the play-in game is determined in advance

and assigned a specific regional. The game is in Dayton, and is part of the Minneapolis regional, so whoever got the number one seed in the minneapolis regional would wind up playing the winner of the play-in game.

I think that's how it works, anyway ...