As of right now they are easily a 2 seed and not a 4 seed. Is committee giving them a lower seed to play opening rounds close to home?

Based on the pod system, the higher seeds are supposed to play the first 2 rounds near home. If UCLA was a 2, they'd for sure be as close to LA as possible.

You are misunderstanding me. They deserve to be a 2 at the moment (better record and head to head over Kentucky on the road) yet UCLA is projected as a 4 seed. If they were projected as a 2 seed all three Pac-12 schools would be 2 seeds and there aren't enough west coast sites for the opening weekend to allow Zona, Oregon, Ucla and Gonzaga to play close to home..

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You are misunderstanding me. They deserve to be a 2 at the moment (better record and head to head over Kentucky on the road) yet UCLA is projected as a 4 seed. If they were projected as a 2 seed all three Pac-12 schools would be 2 seeds and there aren't enough west coast sites for the opening weekend to allow Zona, Oregon, Ucla and Gonzaga to play close to home..

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There are enough pods to allow those four teams to play in the West (Sacramento and SLC) for the first two rounds.

Right. Pods are not coordinated with regions. The committee tries to get teams from the same conference into different regions, but not necessarily different sites.