Special bonus ep: Will NCAA Tournament expand? How will committee handle SEC? What to know about selection process: Our 1-on-1 w/ NCAA SVP of Basketball, Dan Gavitt
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We don't do guests often on the show, but when we do, they're big ones. So that brings us to this special episode, which was first posted to our YouTube channel. There are few in college sports with the candor and influence like NCAA SVP Dan Gavitt. Listen in as Matt Norlander and Gavitt chat for nearly an hour about the integration of new committee members, how tough it will be to seed the SEC in this year's tournament and, of course, where we stand with NCAA Tournament expansion — if the tournament even winds up expanding.
01:45 - How strong has the 2024-2025 season been so far?
4:30 - Dan’s role in when it comes to the NCAA Tournament
8:55 - “We did something a little different”
10:05 - The Practice Process of picking out teams and what it was like.
11:24 - How will committee handle seeding challenges with SEC?
17:35 - Will this year have a "dangerous" crop of 8-10 seeds?
20:15 - How do injuries factor into seeding?
22:10 - What prompted the committee to use new predictive metrics?
26:54 - Should the committee’s composition change to add new voices?
31:00 - What is the timeline on possible NCAA tourney expansion?
33:46 - “Expansion is complex”
37:32 - Gavitt’s opinion on NCAA Tournament expansion
43:00 - Will Tournament expansion be resolved in 2025?
45:00 - What will the NIT look like going forward?
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| 0:49.4 | Dan Gabbitt is one of the most respected and powerful men in all of college athletics. He runs the men's basketball tournament and does even more than that in this special bonus edition of the Ion College Basketball podcast. He lays out his duties there and was more than happy to have him on the show to talk about, yes, we get to the topic of NCAA tournament expansioniblay Tournament Expansion, where we are with all of that. |
| 1:11.5 | That's a little bit later in the interview. |
| 1:13.3 | I had to get to some other particulars there. |
| 1:14.7 | But if you are curious about the tournament, curious about how the bracket's built, |
| 1:19.1 | just want a real temperature check on the state of college hoops as we get ready. |
| 1:23.6 | Folks, march is only a couple days away. |
| 1:25.3 | And you know what that means. Yeah, it means the tournament's coming. |
| 1:28.4 | But yeah, yeah, yeah, the pod's coming. |
| 1:31.0 | I got, I know what you're waiting on. |
| 1:32.6 | Sunday's episode. |
| 1:33.5 | I know what you're waiting on. |
| 1:35.1 | I'm working on a little something. |
| 1:36.4 | It's coming for you. |
| 1:37.3 | Had to get Dan Gavin on. |
| 1:38.5 | We rarely do guests. |
| 1:40.5 | But he is definitely exception to the rule. And if he's going to be willing to go on the record and talk for more than 50 minutes about everything that we've got going on, |
| 1:47.9 | we're going to take advantage to that interview. |
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