Home team vs Visiting team???

[Horns Wn]

I have never understood why a regional and higher seeded host team is ever the visiting team.  Today, the Texas softball team is once again the visiting team.

[horns96]

My wife and I were discussing this today. I've been watching this post-season format for almost 30 years and I always assumed home teams just alternated "home" and "away" with each successive game, but I heard something on the UT softball radio broadcast today that indicated otherwise.  @Jeff Howe, do you know?  

[southpaw]

2 hours ago, horns96 said:

My wife and I were discussing this today. I've been watching this post-season format for almost 30 years and I always assumed home teams just alternated "home" and "away" with each successive game, but I heard something on the UT softball radio broadcast today that indicated otherwise.  @Jeff Howe, do you know?  

Not Jeff, but I think it has to do with the # of times each team has been the home team.  Michigan was visitor in game 1 against UCF and Texas was home team against Eastern Illinois.  By default, Michigan was home team against Texas. 

If both teams were home in their first games, it gets a bit murkier for me.  I've been told two different answers on that.  One was that higher seed would be home, as in the first round games.  The other was that it would be a coin flip.  Don't know that answer on that.