Welcome to another episode of Sports Are Fun! presented by TurboTax.
Every week on Sports Are Fun!, co-hosts soccer legend Kelley O’Hara, sports journalist and basketball expert Greydy Diaz, retired NWSL great Merritt Mathias, and JWS intern BJ serve up their hottest takes all things women’s sports. And in today’s episode, the crew is taking the NCAA selection committee to task as they hash out this year’s March Madness bracket and everything that went down on Selection Sunday.
“We had selection Sunday yesterday, that was very exciting,” O’Hara said, introducing the topic to the group. “So the overall number one seed was UCLA, correct? Is anyone surprised about that?”
“Yes,” Mathias answered immediately. “I just think it’s interesting that USC drops to like the fourth number one seed when they gave UCLA both their losses. The math’s not adding up.”
“Did you see coach Dawn Staley’s reaction?” asked Diaz. “She didn’t agree. There were many coaches who didn’t agree with their own standing.”
“Honestly — and I’ve said this before,” said BJ. “I don’t understand how they do this. I looked into it too last night and I was like, This is still not making sense to me. Let’s just play basketball.'”
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