Hardest Regionals?

[Lil' Lavery]

IMHO Purdue, Great Lakes, and the Midwest regionals are traditionally (or will become in the case of Purdue) the hardest regionals. 45, 71, ect, ect, ect all go there on a regular basis. As for the East Coast, VCU and UTC are probably the toughest in the East. VCU has a TON of underrated teams (Virginia has 55 teams after all, several are traditionally quite good, such as 122, 384, and 388), and is a first week regional, and UTC speaks for itself. The 3 California reginals are all tough as well (and with close to 100 california teams, they should be).
Its true every year the strength of individual teams does change. So I named some of the traditionally harder regionals. All regionals have a few "powerhouses" at them each year. Such as 233 and 118 going to a "weak" (no offense to any of the teams, but it is a weaker and younger regional) colorado regional, or 47 going to Pitts (same deal as colorado).
NONE of the regionals are easy to win, and im sure the balance of power amognst the regionals will change over time (in a couple years many of the young teams in colorado might become quite good for instance). But the midwest regionalS (not the midwest regional, but all the regionals in the Michigan, Indiana, ect area) currently are the strongest of them all, and there really arnt any other regionals that can compare to them.