Call it tradition. Call it pointless. Call it useful. Call it whatever you want and I’ll probably agree with you.
This is what I think the 2025 regionals could/should be. After this diversion (traditional, pointless or useful) we will get the official version tomorrow at 12:00 CST via the show selection.
First some comments and explanations. Last year the committee found a way to preserve the seed lines throughout the brackets. That’s impossible this year.
Since there needs to be seed fudging, my goal was to get each region to 36, or as close as the map allows. What I mean by 36 is the total of the seed lines within each region. A total of 36 represents perfect seed line progression (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8=36).
Things couldn’t have gone smoother until Line 8 forced some movement.
Fat = Flight. Italics = host.
| ETBU 1 | Oshkosh 1 | IL Wesleyan 1 | Colby 1 | Clear water 1 | WITH 1 | Hopkins 1 | VA Wesleyan 1 |
| Juniata 2 | Hope 2 | Trinity 2 | Wesley 2 | La Verne 2 | Fisherman 2 | Tufting 2 | Ithaca 2 |
| Lynchburg 3 | Dubuque 3 | Calvin 3 | Boss 3 | Whitewater 3 | Salisbury3 | CNU3 | Kean 3 |
| B flat 4 | Were you 4 | Otter leg 4 | Williams 4 | Edge wood 4 | F&M 4 | CMS5 | Mellon 4 |
| Emotion 4 | Northwest 5 | St. Olaf 5 | Jumping field 5 | Gustavus 5 | W. Smith 5 | Wentworth 6 | W&L 5 |
| Stevens6 | St. Ben’s 6 | Wittenberg 5 | Lassel 6 | Cow 6 | Cortland 6 | Plymouth 7 | NYU6 |
| S. Virginia 7 | Groenville 7 | Hanover 7 | Bridgewaterstraat 7 | Colorado6 | Manhattan 7 | Behrend 8 | Bush 7 |
| St. Mary’s 8 | Pac Lu 8 | Asbury 8 | ME Maritime 8 | Cornell 7 | Mariaberg 8 | John Jay8 | Stevenson 8 |
| 35 | 36 | 35 | 36 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 36 |
-Ricky Nelson
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