Andy Rooney is more important to college basketball than Kevin Durant. At least, that's the inference you'd have to draw from the comments of NCAA Selection Committee Chairman Gary Walters.During the CBS Selection Sunday show, Walters acknowledged that the Texas-Kansas Big 12 championship game had no impact on the Selection Committee's seedings, and that the Committee slotted Kansas as a No. 1 seed without bothering to see how that game turned out. That has many commentators asking a simple question today: Why didn't the Selection Committee take its time, watch all the games, and make its choices after careful consideration?
The answer: Because CBS doesn't want anyone tinkering with its schedule. CBS wants to put the Big Ten championship game on the air in the afternoon, follow it immediately with the Selection Sunday show, and have that show finished in time for 60 Minutes to start so Rooney can make his curmudgeonly complaints about why margarine doesn't taste as good as butter by the time the network's entertainment lineup begins at 8 p.m. ET.
All sorts of problems could arise. For instance, what if both the Big Ten and Big 12 championship games go into double overtime, and both of them include a team that won't get an at-large bid? There's just no way the Selection Committee has time to weigh every team's merits in the tiny window allotted them by CBS. But don't expect anything to change as long as CBS is paying the bills.
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