Agreed anything is possible. I was going by what you had with West playing Mason in districts. While agree, getting to districts and letting it play out is a solid strategy, I would say playing in a bracket with only MND in sectional finals then to play Creek or any other Dayton team would make sense to me.
If bracket 5 actually ends up with some combination of West, WC, Goshen, Lebanon, Kings or others, I think the MND bracket looks appealing if I were from East. But I also dont think they will all go together . Only 7 spots in each bracket
I dont think Cincy teams are looking to avoid Dayton teams in districts, I think they are looking to avoid each other until regionals