higher seed
Tournament's expected winner
In tournament competition, the higher seed is the team or competitor with the better ranking going into the bracket.
Seeds are numbered so that 1 is best, making "higher seed" potentially confusing—it means higher in rank, not higher in number.
When a 3-seed plays a 6-seed, the 3-seed is the higher seed: The higher seed gets home-court advantage.
- rankingOrdered position assignment
- bracketSupport or category
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
- favoredShown special preference
- Cinderella storyImprobable rise to victory
upset · NCAA · March Madness · Sweet Sixteen · Final Four · placement · germination · sprout · planting · growth · cultivar · heirloom · yield · harvest · sowing · growing season · fertile · bye
- tournament bracketsbracket, seedings, unseeded, bye, matchup
- playoffsbracket, brackets, elimination, playoff bracket, playoff game
competitive expectation
higher seedunderdog
Presumed loser beforehand
longshot · long shot · dark horse · Cinderella team · Cinderella
higher, seed, high, seeds, highly, highness, highest, seeded, seeding