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...seeding practices of the past three years have shown that the committees don’t do much thinking about the bottom third of the bracket. Instead, they let the computers do all the work...
...when seeding teams from the 18-or-so conferences like the Ivy League which typically send just one team to the tournament, the RPI has been an almost perfect forecaster for the bottom third of the bracket...
Last year, the RPI correctly predicted the seedings of the 18 automatic qualifiers in the bottom third of the bracket. For example, Harvard’s RPI projected to a No. 13 seed, which was the seed the Crimson received...
...RPI’s predictive power wasn’t unique to last year either. In the last three years alone, only two of 50 automatic qualifiers in the bottom third of the bracket received a seed lower than what it would have predicted. That’s a success rate of 96 percent—over four points better than the best free-throw percentage in the Ivy League...
...higher seed will provide several benefits to Harvard. It will give the Crimson an easier opponent in the first round and lower the likelihood that this game will be on its opponent’s home court. Palm’s latest bracket projection is among the best site arrangements Crimson could hope for. He projects Harvard at No. 12, playing South Carolina at Old Dominion, who would earn a No. 13 seed. Other nearby sites where Harvard could end up include Penn State, Cincinnati, NC State, Georgia and Purdue...