Syracuse HC says frequently being in UConn's bracket 'unacceptable' - ESPN

STORRS, Conn. — Syracuse coach Felisha Legette-Jack blasted the NCAA women's basketball committee Monday night for consistently putting her teams in the UConn subregional in Storrs.

«For us to do what we've done to continuously have to come to UConn, and every single school that I go to, from Buffalo to [Syracuse], it's unfair to the young people,» Legette-Jack said in her opening statement following a 98-45 second-round NCAA tournament loss to the Huskies. «We, I thought, deserved a little more respect.»

The Orange have had to face the Huskies in the second round in both tournament berths under Legette-Jack, and five of the program's past seven appearances overall. Three of those games took place on UConn's home court.

Her Buffalo squad also fell to the Huskies in the second round of the tournament in 2019.

«After being in this business for 37 years, and to have to come and be in this particular bracket every freaking year is unacceptable. It's wrong,» Legette-Jack said. «Put us on a 10-line, whatever. But for us to continue to come to Connecticut year after year after year is, to me, it's a personal attack, because I just think that we are way better than what we performed today.»

While following seed order, one of the NCAA committee's seeding principles is that teams are placed «as close to home as possible to maximize fan accessibility,» according to the NCAA website. The committee listed Princeton, another nearby program to the Huskies, as the 34 overall seed and Syracuse as 36.

«I just want the young people that's in my locker room to have a fighting chance, and I am grateful to be in an NCAA tournament, from where we've come from, but I think that we've earned the right to go anywhere outside of a four-hour