Looking at the mens draw, why in the world are there so many in conference matchups in the sweet 16? 6 of the 8 matches are conference teams playing each other. I have yet to figure out why the NCAA lets this happen. Why should you have to play a team in the sweet 16 of Nationals that you have already played once or even twice this season???

I know the seeds and matchups are based on rankings, but it is kinda ridiculous...

how are they supposed to keep that from happening, though? give someone a higher/lower seed that they don't deserve just to keep them from playing a conference opponent again? that would be ridiculous. and unfair.

the only deviations by the ncaa in seeding order from the ita rankings were flipping stanford and baylor from 7/8 to 8/7 (understandable, given baylor's 4-3 head to head win during the season) and flipping kentucky and georgia from 11/12 to 12/11 (understandable, given georgia's home court advantage and a 4-3 head to head win during the season).

granted, these two minor changes did result in 6 of the 8 sweet 16 matches being conference repeats, as opposed to the 4 out of 8 it would have been if the ncaa had gone straight up with the ita rankings. but does that really make that much of a difference? not really. and it's basically just coincidence anyway, it could have been the other way around if a couple matches would have gone different during the season.

that's just what happens when the big 5 conferences (sec, acc, big 10, pac 10, big 12) dominate college tennis like they do right now. there's really no way to change it that makes any sense, or is fair.

In basketball they will move you up and down a line to avoid conference matchups

You just now noticing this?
It is stupd and makes no sense at all. It's not a problem to adjust a seed one spot up or down to avoid the conference matchups.
I think the NCAA just doesn't give a flip.

Exactly, the NCAA doesn't care. It's not like they have to worry about people not tuning in to watch a nationally televised event because it's a replay of a game that's already been played three times like they could potentially have happen for a March Madness game. There is no revenue at stake in the NCAA tennis tournament, they are primarily concerned with keeping costs down. That will never change, so I doubt they will ever care about Sweet 16 matches being conference repeats.

Maybe they think they can generate more buzz with in-conference matchups.

Reminds me off the awful job the NCAA did with the volleyball bracket this year...