Posted by rednu on 6/24/2015 1:43:00 PM (view original):
I can get nine teams with the following configuration...
Alaska-Fairbanks, Hawaii Pacific, Seattle, UC-San Diego, North Dakota, Abilene Christian, Maine-Presque Isle, East Tennessee St. (if they're not in the game, Appalachian St. works as well...) and Puerto Rico-San Piedras.
Excellent. You both worked West to East. I don't expect that it can be pushed to 10. I used:
Presque Isle, Alaska (choose one), Hawaii (choose one), Puerto Rico (choose one), San Diego (choose one), but then went Miami, FL, Butler, Texas A&M, Corpus Christie, & Gonzaga. That's 9.