The defendants will score a home run if the Supreme Court denies standing to the states, since that will likely be applicable to any state-court lawsuits on similar grounds.
He determined a No. 6 seed or higher to be the applicable Cinderella benchmark due to the fact that since 2000 (the year that Lackritz calls the start of the modern era of college basketball), only 5 teams higher than the No. 5 seed have made the Final Four.