"Better was not defined nesacarilly, but the general idea was to make the tournament more fair and equal. There was some instruction to try and toughen up some sectionals and weaken others to make things more fair."
Not sure how making the sectional Merrillville and Portage is in weaker would be fair, this basically solidifies that they will send all 14 to regional most with 1 seeds which would improve both of their teams chances of sending almost 14 to semi state. I am not saying that these teams dont have the talent ,coaching or capacity to do that without the realignment but that did not make things "more fair". Merrillville and Portage will battle for state record of consectutive sectional championships now