14 seed faces the 3rd seed in round 1..... theoretically the 3rd seed gets bounced to the consolation in the semis. Obviously sometimes there is little difference between 2/3 and the 3 could possibly make the finals. But if you cant' beat the guy who was fighting for a starting spot to begin with, I am not confident there is a good argument that he would have beat #6 and #2 as well. On the flip side, if your guy is that good to knock off #3 first round, why was there even discussion of not putting him in the tournament when he could have gotten a high seed? If you go the conspiracy route of , I will hold out my #1 PSU guy and put him in late so he can face Iowa's #3 seed first round and knock him out early getting more team points, I could see that being a detriment. I dont' see Cael ever doing that. Tom....? However, we play this seeding game all season with ducking opponents. At the end of the day, if you sub your backup in , they deserve #14. There has to be a cut-off, and as others have mentioned, Brands has done this two years in a row. He's either real dum or really, really dumb.