Weather in Kansas City looks to be shaping up, much better than last year's sub-30 degrees for the Finals.

Decent analysis, PurpleGate.  But as with all numbers, you can play with them and get slightly different results.  For example, if we drop the 5th team from each bracket in your analysis, we get the following "scores" (lower score = "stronger" bracket?)... Upper Left - 40, Lower Left - 47, Upper Right - 45, Lower Right - 37.  Slightly different, although Lower Right still looks to be a "tough" bracket.  Moving Trinity (TX) to the Lower Left might help balance the "scores" a bit.  But the bottom line is this:  There are many intangibles, and you still gotta play the games.  Good luck to all teams involved, and congratulations on fine seasons.

Odd that two UAA schools, Wash U and Carnegie Mellon, each got a #1 seeding, even if both are deserving.  I would move Trinity (TX) to the Wash U bracket, but that messes with geography.  Perhaps swap the Trinity (TX) quartet of teams with the Illinois Wesleyan quartet of teams?  Regardless, there is some significant travel required in the LEFT half of the bracket, less so in the RIGHT half.