Perhaps a better way is to let the seeded team decide where it wants to play first.
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Chicago, the NHL's top-seeded team, will renew a rivalry against seventh-seeded Detroit on Wednesday night in the Windy City.
The top spots are significant in at least one respect: A No. 1 has never lost to a 16th-seeded team.
The Blackhawks, the NHL's top-seeded team, beat the Red Wings twice in shootouts, once in overtime and by a 7-1 score in another game.
After all, they are the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, and the Islanders barely qualified for their first postseason appearance in six years.
Easily, lethally, their top-seeded team beat Colorado State by 26 points.
The Penguins, the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, were expected to beat the eighth-seeded Islanders, who were making their first playoff appearance in six years.
Butler was making its first appearance in a regional semi-final since 1961 and was hoping to become the lowest seeded team to make a Final Four appearance.
Now, the hockey-crazed country is left with only the seventh-seeded Senators going against one of the country's own, Sidney Crosby, and the Penguins, the top-seeded team in the East.
In Group B, Tunisia's Esperance, who were the seeded team in the group, will face USM Alger of Algeria, Jeanne d'Arc of Senegal and South African side SuperSport United.
However, picking a lower seeded team to advance from the round may also be a solid choice, as a double digit seed has made the Sweet Sixteen 26 of 28 years.
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The top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference the past two seasons, the Bulls failed to match the Nets' energy and trailed by as many as 28 points in a 106-89 loss in Game 1 of their playoff series.
Ovechkin, a two-time MVP who led the NHL with 32 goals this season, crashed the net to score on a power play about seven minutes into the second period to tie the game for the Capitals, the third-seeded team in the Eastern Conference.
No team seeded lower has made it to the final Monday night since eighth-seeded Villanova in 1985.
No team seeded higher than fourth has ever won a national semifinal game.
Since 2002, only one team seeded worse than No. 4 reached the women's Final Four: No. 7 Minnesota in 2004.
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Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record for victories.
Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title, and also set a school season record for victories.
The Albany men became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record with their 24th victory.
As your bracket fills out, don't pick any team seeded lower than No. 8 to advance to the Final Four--only two such teams have ever made it.
It was the most lopsided victory in NCAA tournament history for a team seeded third or worse, breaking a mark set about an hour earlier by VCU against Akron.
Wichita State is just the fifth team seeded ninth or higher to reach the Final Four since seeding began in 1979, but the second in three years following 11th-seeded VCU's improbable run in 2011.
Fair added 13 to help Syracuse earn the most lopsided victory in NCAA tournament history for a team seeded third or lower, breaking a mark set about an hour earlier by fifth-seeded VCU against Akron.
When the team seeded areas outside the tubes with mouse nerve cells the cells went exploring, sending their threadlike projections into the tubes and even following the curves of helical tunnels, the researchers report in an upcoming ACS Nano.
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The final cutoffs: Pick no team seeded lower than No. 8 to reach the Final Four (only two of 96 have ever done it), and none seeded lower than No. 6 to reach the championship game (none have done it since 1985, when eighth-seeded Villanova made its memorable run to the title).
Cal became the second 12th-seeded Pac-12 team to win in San Jose.
Liberty will try and pull off a Big South tournament double later Sunday when its top-seeded women's team takes on Longwood for that NCAA berth.
No. 7-seed San Diego State, ranked 30th in the RPI, lost to a 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast team in just its second year of postseason eligibility.
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The Orangemen (30-9) headed into the season having lost four players from a team that was seeded first last year but came up a win short of the Final Four.
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