Anti-SEC Bias in the NCAA Softball Tournament

So, you've been listening to the TV announcers denigrate the SEC and glorify the PAC-12 in softball? There is a reason. The PAC hasn't won a title since 2011 and that was the first one in a while. The PAC used to be synonymous with softball. They have all the history. They have all the royalty. No one east of the Mississippi River ever won the title until Alabama did it just a few years ago. But, things have changed and most of the softball world is not happy about it at all.

The SEC has had a difficult time with overt bias against it from the people who run softball, who were all from the PAC 12 until softball became a televised sport and its popularity exceeded many other college sports. They had to be more subtle. The NCAA tournament was always setup to favor the PAC 12. That hasn't changed, though.

So, it the below proof, or just circumstance?

In the regional scheduling:
All SEC teams who played other conferences in the first round were lower seeds playing on the road.
The entire PAC 12 was a higher seed playing at home.

The entire PAC 12 avoided anyone scheduled in their brackets in another conference ranked in the top 16! except James Madison. They faced 1 in their own conference. The SEC faced 7 plus 2 in their own conference.

The PAC 12 avoided facing 8 of the top 9 ERA pitchers in the nation in their brackets. The SEC faced 7 of the top 9 in theirs. (#10 is a PAC 12 pitcher).

The PAC 12 avoided the number one seed (Florida), avoided the number one ranked team at the end of the year (Minnesota), avoided the only ranked ACC team (FSU), and avoided the only big 12 team ranked in the top 15 (Oklahoma).

They avoided playing any major conference champion.

The SEC played 5 major conference champions: the PAC 12, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, AND SEC!

You can't do that accidentally, can you?