BONUS: Norlander interviews selection committee vice chair after Saturday's top 16 seeds reveal
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Norlander interviews selection committee vice chair after Saturday's top 16 seeds reveal.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you so much, Emily, joined here by the Vice Chair, Martin Newton. |
| 0:17.9 | We just saw each other in Indianapolis. |
| 0:19.7 | It's great to see you again, Martin. Let's dive right in. Obviously a fun day for college basketball fans, plenty yet still |
| 0:25.0 | to be determined over the next 22 days. We have to start with the one line. No debates about |
| 0:31.3 | Michigan number one overall, Duke, Arizona, but how about this? The Media Mock Committee, we put Houston on the one line, but the real selection committee, |
| 0:40.6 | you all decided to put Iowa State there. |
| 0:42.2 | Now Houston rates better than Iowa State in six of the seven team metrics. |
| 0:46.7 | Unlike Iowa State, it does not have losses to fringe or outright non-NCAA tournament |
| 0:51.3 | teams. |
| 0:52.3 | What were the factors that led to the Cyclones being at the Cougars for the final one seat? Well, first of all, it's good to see you again as well and enjoyed our time in Indianapolis. And hopefully you got to give a little peek behind the curtain of what takes place during that selection. And maybe have a little empathy for us along the line. But no, I think at the end of the day, when we walked into the seating on Wednesday, |
| 1:13.0 | UCon was the fourth number one seat. |
| 1:15.3 | And as they came off the loss against Creighton at home and felt that was a quad two loss, |
| 1:22.8 | the committee felt that we need to go back and scrub again. |
| 1:25.3 | So at that point in time, we had Iowa State |
| 1:28.3 | of head of Houston simply based on the head-to-head. And so you look at Iowa State's metrics you |
| 1:34.6 | talked about. I will say this, that metrics are a tool. They are not, they're a guide. They don't |
| 1:39.9 | make the final decision and everything. But as you looked at their, as you looked at their wins, |
| 1:45.1 | they've got quality wins at Purdue, quality win against Houston that I mentioned, Kansas. And then |
| 1:51.6 | Arkansas, or excuse me, Houston's wins against Texas Tech and Arkansas and BYU, we just felt like |
| 1:57.6 | that the quality of wins for Iowa State were just a little bit better than Houston's. |
| 2:02.2 | Okay, fair enough. I want to bring a little more clarity to our audience on something. |
| 2:06.2 | Dave Warlock, who does such an amazing job, the comm is director for the NCAA. He sent something |
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