Kansas Kid said:
First, we could only have been in the Pitt or Nebraska regions because they try to keep top 4 seed conference teams out of the same bracket, if possible. As for a two vs a three seed, they essentially said we are the best 3 seed going against the weakest 2 seed which means going to the overall top seed. Even if they moved us to a 2, we likely would have still faced the same team also in Lincoln. The only differences are what color uniforms we were and which locker room we occupy.
In other words, this seems like a reasonable bracket for us given our results this year.
You are thinking of women's basketball. Volleyball and softball brackets don't use that logic. They seed the teams 1-32 and let the chips fall where they may. They do avoid placing teams from the same conference in the same sub-regional (meaning no round of 64 or round of 32 matches between conference foes).
Pittsburgh and SMU are both in the ACC and they are the 1 and 2 seeds in the Pittsburgh regional.
Wisconsin and Indiana are both in the B1G and they are the 3 and 4 seeds in the Austin regional.
