Welcome back to the Ion College Basketball Podcast in our YouTube channel.

We are here on Selection Sunday with Committee Chair Tom Bernett.

Tom, thank you so much for joining us.

Let's get right to it.

My first question for you is what team, no matter if it was in or out or on a seed line,

what was the hardest decision, the tightest decision of any that the committee had to grapple with?

You know, man, I would say that probably toward the end,

we had a number of teams that were on our under consideration list that were also playing late into the conference tournament.

So we really slowed down the process to some degree.

We had to go really late last night, obviously watching Virginia Tech, watching teams like Texas A&M, Iowa today,

certainly kept the attention of the committee.

So, you know, again, the process is built to do that.

It's just that we may have been a little bit later and completing our work and we might normally be in a given year.

But, you know, it's good to have tough decisions, that's for sure.

You mentioned Virginia Tech real quick, I was at that game, but the Hokies need to win that game to ensure they made the tournament

with they have been out if they had lost to Duke.

Well, you know, the reality of it is, is, you know, again, we stopped our work and really wanted to watch that game finish up.

And in the end, we never really had to ask that question of the committee because, you know, Virginia Tech obviously won the AQ.

Thus, we kind of moved on to other business that had been settled for us.

So we just never got to that moment.

Okay, Dayton just misses out because you had Richmond get an automatic qualifier there.

Rutgers is also when those teams have somewhat similar resumes in terms of very high highs and some glaring lows.

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