Analysis, and some criticism, of the NCAA Tournament selection committee's new process (2.11)
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🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
After the selection commiteee's top-16 reveal on Sunday, Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander give a full rundown not just of the teams picked and those snubbed, but go in depth on the new process and what you need to know about how the NCAA is changing the way it seeds and select teams. It's a long discussion, with some difference in opinion between the guys on what the committee does, but worth it for any fan who will watch again come Selection Sunday.
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| 0:00.0 | In their TKR adj. Sunday, February 11, 2018, welcome back to the ION College Baths. Well, |
| 0:17.7 | podcast I got Matt Norlander here with me. And earlier today, the NCAA Tournament |
| 0:21.4 | Selection Committee unveiled its top 16 at this moment. If you didn't watch it on CBS, |
| 0:26.6 | shame on you because CBS is America's most watched network. It's the network of stars. But |
| 0:31.4 | don't worry, we got it recad for you. The one seeds were Virginia, Villanova, Zabier, |
| 0:36.4 | and Purdue. The two seeds were Auburn, Kansas, Duke, Cincinnati. The three seeds were Clemson, |
| 0:42.9 | Texas Tech, Michigan State, North Carolina. And the four seeds were Tennessee, Ohio State, |
| 0:49.1 | Arizona, and Oklahoma, Norlander, your thoughts on what the Selection Committee unveiled. |
| 0:54.4 | Well, there's a lot to get to here. Number of ways that we can go. Just pick one. Now, |
| 1:02.1 | I'm going to pick a whole bunch here, actually. But I guess I have to start with one, don't I? |
| 1:08.0 | What I will start with is what I did not realize, and Gumble had this on the, said this, and I |
| 1:14.4 | think the graphic was on the screen. The number was either 14 or 15 of the 16 teams that were in |
| 1:21.7 | the top 16 of last year's field of 68. I think it was 15, if I'm wrong, it might have been 14 |
| 1:29.2 | regardless. It was higher than I was expecting. Those were the, they were the same month over month |
| 1:34.5 | from the month prior. You would expect at least eight to 10. That was just a little bit of a higher |
| 1:39.6 | number than I expected. I bring that up because as parishes run down all these teams, you know, don't |
| 1:46.1 | take too much stock into what the committee released here because there's still a lot that can change. |
| 1:51.7 | In particular, I've got serious issues with two of the teams that are even on this, but I promise |
| 1:57.2 | myself I would not and will not overreact to a bunch of rankings that essentially don't matter. |
| 2:02.3 | But at the same time, high probability that the teams on the one line, the two line, and I think |
| 2:10.4 | at least half the teams on the three line, you're going to probably still see in the in geographic |
| 2:15.9 | protection top four seed lines when we get to selection Sunday. As we record this podcast, |
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