Stop whining about the Raleigh-Charlotte path

Personally, I think it kinda sucks that any team gets to play essentially 4 home games to get the the Final 4, but I have to agree that they earned it by virtue of being the the top overall seed and lucked out with the locations of the East Region games.  I still can't help but think that the idea is to play the games on relatively neutral courts and a situation like this is far from neutral.  I can't complain about UNC though because every year UCLA gets to play its conference tourney literally in their own back yard and almost never have to leave the state of California during the NCAA tourney until the Final 4 (if they are a 1 or 2 seed)...can you tell I'm a bitter non-UCLA Pac-10 fan?  At least someone else has been deemed eligible for the "UCLA Tourney Travel Package"...4 games, 2 weeks all expenses paid trip down the block...complete with breakfast bed...your own bed.

You still have to win all the games but playing that many games at home is a big advantage. There should a procedure where you switch sites and can't play the first 4 rounds in the same state.

Personally, I think it's pretty much ridiculous.

Two games, reasonable.  Four games, unreasonable.

Let us not forget in 2005 when Illinois traveled 125.7 miles from Champaigne to Indianapolis for the first weekend. Next, they traveled 136 miles to Chigago for the second weekend. Last, they traveled a whopping 178.3 miles to St. Louis for the final four. Over the course of the entire tournament, Illinois never had more than a 3 hour car ride from their campus. Let me also remind you they lost the national championship. Location isn't everything, and while it can be an advantage, the precedent has been set for the number one overall seed to not have to travel all that far. While yes, Raliegh is only a half hour drive from Chapel Hill, Charlotte is 5 miles from the SC border on the opposite end of the state from Chapel HIll, 141.6 miles away. It's not like they're playing in Raleigh and then playing the regional final in Durham. In case you were at all interested, San Antonio is 1370.7 miles from Chapel Hill. Sorry guys, I was bored.

P.S. all distances calculated via google maps.

whoever started this thread - you're stupid!

Yes, North Carolina deserved a 1 seed and the top #1 seed

The selection committee also made a massive mistake. Technically speaking, North Carolina is also in the SOUTH first off (and so is it northern neighbor, Virginia), but seeing as the South regional is in Houston it is understandable that Carolina was put in the East region. The selection committee also could've had the Heels play rounds 1 and 2 somewhere else (up near Wash DC maybe) seeing as how there are 7 other sites for the 1st 2 rounds, but they didn't - big time screw up. And being the top #1 seed is still not a valid reason to set it up so that they have 4 games in their state (and all of the big cities in north carolina are in the eastern half of the state). I don't care how much they might've deserved it  (UNC)- this year the teams at the top are so close and every team should have somewhat of a tests on their path from how the brackets are initially set up. What the selection committee did was actually very unfair to the other 1 seeds and to a certain extent, the 2 seeds.

See, the selection committee could've prevented the Heels from playing their 1