Keith, thank you so much for joining us on CBS SportsHQ. We've got a lot to dive into and not a lot of time to do it. Let's go right to it. Miami University in the field, but going to Dayton. But if I understand correctly, Miami University was not the last team selected as an at-large. Is that correct? That is correct. So they weren't the last team selected. They went in ahead of NC State, Texas, and SMU. And then when we did our scrubbing, those schools scrubbed above them, and that's why they're kind of in that last spot in the at-large field.

All right, so everyone watching and digesting this in real time and the immediacy of the bracket coming out should know that Miami was actually the fourth team, the fourth to last team, and actually had the best positioning initially of any team going to Dayton, correct?

That is correct.

And then can you quickly describe what the seed scrubbing process is? I know you guys have been doing it a lot over the past four or five days, but why did it wind up that Miami actually wound up getting scrubbed all the way down to where it was sitting there right on the edge? Yeah, so when we build our seed line, we go back through it once we have it built and we essentially scrub.

So we take each school's resumes that are next to each other and we compare them both with the school above them and the school below them.

And we look at those resumes to see if there are any reasons that we would want to, that we would want to change the order of that seating.

And when we went through that process, and when we

were looking at Miami's predictives and also, you know, kind of the quality win totals, it just

allowed those schools to scrub up above them and Miami ended up kind of in that at the last

at-large on our seed list position, but they weren't the last at-large team selected into the field. Would it be safe to say when we boil down the conversation that the committee collectively, even though there's 12 different opinions, looked at a team that went undefeated in the regular season and said, we need to have a team like this in our national tournament. And then once they were safely in and you really started to debate those teams, you said, but the predictives are so poor outside the top 60, outside the top 70, outside the top 80, that you got to a point where we know they're going to be in, but just from a team quality standpoint, we think they are the worst team among all the outlarges? No, that's not really the approach that we take, right? You know, we're looking for the 37 best at that largest. And when we are selecting teams in the field, we focus a lot on the resume metrics.

And so when you look at Miami, it's very rare that any team is going to go undefeated.

And certainly when we compare the bubble teams, it was an astral chance that another bubble team could perform in the same way with Miami with their

current schedule. Also then when you look at some of the other Reservoir metrics, their strength

of record was 28, their Wob was 37. And so when you take that kind of body of work, the committee

determined that they were going to be, that they were one of the 37

best at large teams. I think the scrubbing process, we focus a lot at times on kind of the

predictive metrics. And when you look at Miami's predictives, they just weren't as good as those

three teams that we just mentioned. And that's how that process played out. When did the final

field of 68 get determined from an at-large standpoint?

Approximately what time was it earlier on Sunday, or did you know by the end of Saturday night?

We knew by the end of Saturday night.

We certainly had to put together some contingency brackets based on some of the results relative to some of the five games that happened today.

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