We begin today’s article with a live look at me around 5:04 p.m. Central last night when the 8/9 game in Auburn’s pod at Lexington came on:
Again, since the men’s selection committee abandoned the S-curve and decided to make the tournament more regional, you get this kind of nonsense. Yes, protected seeds are only protected from crowd disadvantage in the first round. But it makes no sense to see your No. 1 overall seed potentially at a disadvantage going into the second. This is no way to bracket a tournament if you want to crown the best possible team as national champions. Instead, you crown a contending team that had the best draw.
Surprisingly, half an hour later I discovered that my final screening It wasn’t as much of a disaster as I expected.
Let’s go through the material and see some of the things that stood out to me.
Being an ideas person, I thought I would close this article by sharing some ideas on improving the entire process, from the selection of traveling members, to the distribution of the field, to bracketing, which remains the Committee’s biggest problem.
The NCAA must do one of three things:
Team Eligibility and Evaluation
In other words, Greg Sankey and Brett Yormark would never let this rule apply.
Implementing these two rules and simply taking a little more time and thought would significantly improve the competitive balance of the bracket from top to bottom and across all four regions.
