Big 12 Bracket Released

[flyingcement]

https://big12sports.com/documents/2024/3/4/Big_12_Brackets.pdf

[flyingcement]

It's very inconsistent which seeds are getting a bye.  How is that decided?  For example - Daton Fix - number one overall seed - doesn't have a first round bye, but 8th seeded Garret Ricks does...

[Ohio Elite]

  On 3/4/2024 at 11:42 PM, flyingcement said:

https://big12sports.com/documents/2024/3/4/Big_12_Brackets.pdf

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Any idea what channel? Espn plus I'm guessing?

[Ohio Elite]

  On 3/4/2024 at 11:45 PM, flyingcement said:

It's very inconsistent which seeds are getting a bye.  How is that decided?  For example - Daton Fix - number one overall seed - doesn't have a first round bye, but 8th seeded Garret Ricks does...

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I noticed that at 157 too.

[flyingcement]

  On 3/4/2024 at 11:46 PM, Ohio Elite said:

Any idea what channel? Espn plus I'm guessing?

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Yep thats what it looks like to me brother

[ionel]

  On 3/4/2024 at 11:45 PM, flyingcement said:

It's very inconsistent which seeds are getting a bye.  How is that decided?  For example - Daton Fix - number one overall seed - doesn't have a first round bye, but 8th seeded Garret Ricks does...

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Its random.  Its random every year, isn't that consistent? 

[gimpeltf]

  On 3/4/2024 at 11:45 PM, flyingcement said:

It's very inconsistent which seeds are getting a bye.  How is that decided?  For example - Daton Fix - number one overall seed - doesn't have a first round bye, but 8th seeded Garret Ricks does...

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Technically, that's the rule both HS and college. One reason to do it that way is because if high seeds don't get pigtails they lose a chance at bonus points. It does become an issue when events decide to seed all the way down forcing high seeds to get byes. It might not be a problem in, say, the current EIWA with only one pigtail and most of them going to a lot of the same few lower ranked teams.

[flyingcement]

  On 3/5/2024 at 12:35 AM, gimpeltf said:

Technically, that's the rule both HS and college. One reason to do it that way is because if high seeds don't get pigtails they lose a chance at bonus points. It does become an issue when events decide to seed all the way down forcing high seeds to get byes. It might not be a problem in, say, the current EIWA with only one pigtail and most of them going to a lot of the same few lower ranked teams.

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Good explanation.  I suppose that in an ideal world you could ask each seed - starting with the first - whether they want the bye- and then go down the list.  But it would be a logistical nightmare and so the rotating seeds seems like a far more practical solution.  Thanks for clearing it up