I See No Reason to Thank the NCAA Selection Committee

Grant Wahl at SI.com writes that it's time for us to acknowledge the brilliant job done by the tournament committee in nailing the tournament's top seeds. I'm going to have to respectfully disagree ... I'm not thanking them.

To say that we need to thank them now when most of the top seeds advanced would be to say that they should be criticized when things don't go according to seed. If the committee is right this year, the committee was very very wrong last year when 11-seed George Mason got the Final Four.

Do you believe that? Should the committee be chastised for not having Mason as a 1-seed last year? Of course not, that's crazy. Upsets happen sometimes, and no one can predict them. If you could predict them, they wouldn't be upsets.

And sometimes, like this year, upsets don't happen. It's just the way things go. It's not like it took some kind of supernatural brain power to have UNC, Florida, Ohio State, Kansas, Georgetown, UCLA, and Memphis among the top-8 seeds. And if it did, by the same token, it was spectacularly dumb to have Wisconsin in that group, too. But I didn't hear many people saying that when the brackets were announced.

I'm not giving any credit to the committee for this, just as I would never "blame" them if another 11-seed got to the Final Four.

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