Happy Selection Sunday! Some teams won’t be happy, however, after four bids were stolen in this year’s tournament. The Pac-12, ACC, A-10 and American all have at-large teams and a champion that would not have made the NCAA Tournament any other way. Sometimes, we’ll go five years without four bid-stealers in total.
One odd thing about this bracket is that Dayton is in the projected First Four, which is played at Dayton. The Flyers out of the A-10 are the only team that can be bracketed to play in its home floor. Another impact of having four bid-stealers: this would be the first time the First Four features 10-seeds.
You have to feel for Indiana State, which may set the record for the highest NET ranking to be left out of the tournament. The Sycamores are 29th in the NET this morning and good enough to be in the tournament, but they’re not good enough to overcome four bid-stealers.
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If Indiana State does not set that record, it could be Colorado. The Buffaloes are 25th in today’s NET ranking and my first team out of the field. St. John’s is 32nd in the NET and my last team in the…
