NCAA Tourney - 2025

[KUTradition]

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March Madness 2025 begins with First Four games Tuesday, March 18, in Dayton, Ohio, and ends with the Final Four on April 5 and 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

The cities for the first and second rounds of the tournament are: Lexington, Kentucky; Providence, Rhode Island; Seattle; Wichita, Kansas; Cleveland; Denver; Milwaukee; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The regional semifinals (Sweet 16) and finals (Elite Eight) will take place in Newark, New Jersey (East); Atlanta (South); Indianapolis (Midwest); and San Francisco (West)...

[pdub]

Providence would be a possibility for me.

[jfish26]

Providence would be a possibility for me.

Kind of a kick in the dick though, right? In that it would mean we’re a much lower seed than would likely excite us.

[pdub]

Providence would be a possibility for me.

Kind of a kick in the dick though, right? In that it would mean we’re a much lower seed than would likely excite us.

Not necessarily.
Could be something like we're a high 2 seed, low 1 and another team in the midwest is a slightly higher 2 seed, low 1 so they put them as a 2 in the midwest to 'reward' them and 'punish' us by giving us a 1 but out East.

[jfish26]

Providence would be a possibility for me.

Kind of a kick in the dick though, right? In that it would mean we’re a much lower seed than would likely excite us.

Not necessarily.
Could be something like we're a high 2 seed, low 1 and another team in the midwest is a slightly higher 2 seed, low 1 so they put them as a 2 in the midwest to 'reward' them and 'punish' us by giving us a 1 but out East.

Isn’t the function of the new (like, ten years ago) pods to iron out this sort of thing?

[jfish26]

Or was it 20+ years ago now, Christ.

Anyway, point is I don't think getting bumped to (say) the 2 out West puts Wichita out of play for KU. I think the way it shakes out, getting shipped out East for the first weekend would mean we're a low (for us) seed.

[pdub]

Oh duh.
I thought for some reason Providence was a regional site.
No, we very much should be in Wichita then. And Wichita sucks.

[jfish26]

Oh duh.
I thought for some reason Providence was a regional site.
No, we very much should be in Wichita then. And Wichita sucks.

Didn’t want to bad-fan ya!

And, agreed.