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Mid-Major Numbers Lie

Mike DeCourcy at the Sporting News calls bull on the bemoaning of Mid-Major bubble teams getting the shaft this year, and especially the way CBS presented the issue. CBS presented an absolute whopper when it aired a graphic stating the number of "mid-major at-large bids" to the NCAA Tournament had declined from 12 in 2004...

Mid-Majors Should Fear the Future Tournament Selections

I know you are probably sick of reading about the selection committee and their mistakes and everything else. I understand. I don't blame you. That said, I'm going to take one more run at them. The one good thing you can say about the Selection Committee is that they were honest about their inconsistencies. Selection...

Going to the NIT Isn't the Worst Thing in the World

Teams that slid off the bubble (or had their bubbles aggressively violated by an incompetent selection committee, as some would have you believe) spent much of today bitching and crying about being excluded from the tournament. And that's fine ... it's to be expected, it happens every year, and yes, it's true that some...

Ben Howland Thinks CBS Manipulates the Brackets

Does CBS have any say on Selection Sunday? Does the network that televises the NCAA Tournament and puts hundreds of millions of dollars into the schools' pockets expect to be compensated for that investment with TV-friendly matchups? UCLA coach Ben Howland implied yesterday that he thinks the network does, indeed,...

How '60 Minutes' Affects the NCAA Tournament

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...