NCAA Tournament: Why The Selection Committee Needs To Explain Their Decisions

Monday, March 15 2010

A crime has been waged against the American public, and it's up to the NCAA tournament selection committee to explain themselves accordingly.

2010 is the year of transparency and accountability, yet the selection committee remains hidden away behind locked doors, allowed to make unfathomable decisions that they'll never have to explain.

ESPN's Joe Lunardi does a great job explaining the NCAA Tournament selection process in detail; long story short, the selection committee (theoretically) ranks all the NCAA Tournament teams, 1-65, in something called the "S-Curve."  

The selection committee then uses the S-Curve to start seeding the teams in their respective regions, relying on a few bracketing principles (no two teams from the same conference are allowed to meet before the Elite 8, if possible, no teams are allowed to play NCAA games in their home arenas, etc.).

I don't know what S-Curve the selection committee was working off of this weekend, but...
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