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Mar 4, 2020
9:44:30am
JadoX Playmaker
Not really normal, but not exactly unique to the WCC. The old Big East
(prior to realignment) had a similarly stair-stepped bracket. The top 4 teams had byes into the quarters while the lower seeds could've played 2 previous games at that point.

For example, see the 2010 bracket:


The Big East is a little more balanced now that they have a smaller conference, but I'm sure if you looked around you'd find plenty of other conferences with strange setups.

As others have said, it's mostly to protect/reward the top seeds and set them up as well as possible for the NCAA tourney.
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