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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
That source says you don't stay "in division" for the first 2 rounds.
If there's 5-3 team split, clearly staying in division doesn't happen.
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People seem to make this very difficult on themselves.
You "stay in division" in the sense that the bottom seed (aka the team in the conference who qualifies with the fewest points) stays in the same division for the second round if they win round 1 against the conference's top seed. It doesn't matter if they are the fifth team from the other division, they stay in that division to play the second round and then (if they win that) would play whoever comes out of the division that they actually belong to in the regular season.