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Which explains why the Mavs and Suns are looking for any edge they can find, early as it seems to be talking about playoff matchups.

I'll seed all of the competitors into a bracket and then I'll post the matchups with a poll for readers and visitors to vote.

Q: You and your colleagues studied the postseason matchups of college bowl games and their impact on television viewership.

Doc Rivers: Boston's underappreciated coach has to continue to push the right buttons with his matchups against the Lakers.

As a bonus, Dallas already sports a 2-0 lead in head-to-head matchups if seeding comes down to a tiebreaker.

Actually, on paper, the majority of the matchups against Miami favor the Mavs.

Instead of overly concerning itself with matchups and scouting reports, the team worked on being more efficient.

In other positional matchups, Mike Miller 's slow-footed defense will get torched by Kobe.

Fisher will guard Rondo and Bryant will be on Allen, but the frontcourt matchups may take some maneuvering.

In these matchups, having a high commander rating to assist with terrain initiative will be crucial.

The matchups were completely random.

From there, matchups issues persist.

Parker: They are two great teams. There are great matchups with Kobe Bryant, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett , and Pau Gasol.

This is by far not as much fun as the other 2 matchups but important never the less.

He remains a bench player at best to be used when shooting is needed or matchups are favorable.

But honestly, in how many of those first-round matchups has he been on the clearly better team?

A 16-team tournament consists of 15 matchups.

The player matchups are more interesting, but the 1986 team still comes out on top