<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>7 seeding does not mean much because of Bracket seeding rules.</div><div>Iowa and Ohio State had to be placed in the Gonzaga and Baylor brackets"</div><div><br><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-width: 38em; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-width: 38em; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;">"Bracket placement rules prevent teams from the top four in the same conference from being placed in the same region if they would be seeded on the top four seed lines."</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-width: 38em; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-width: 38em; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;"> <a href="https://www.goiowaawesome.com/iowa-hawkeyes-basketball/2021/03/5254/iowa-earns-2-seed-in-west-region">https://www.goiowaawesome.com/iowa-hawkeyes-basketball/2021/03/5254/iowa-earns-2-seed-in-west-region</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-width: 38em; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; max-width: 38em; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></p><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>