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Originally posted by Bart Tyson
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Originally posted by BktBallRef
OSU ws hurt by the fact that they're game with Texas did not end until late in the afternoon. The Committee started buikding the brackets around 2:40. They could not possibly have waited until after the Big 10 and Big 12 games were completed before working the brackets.
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Why can't they wait?
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They set the time for what ever reasons. The conferences can set their tourney time earier if they want. That's basically what the NCAA has said. If the tourney's want their games to matter, the can move the games earlier.
It takes a long time to get agreement on the seedings and an extra 20-30 minutes would probably not do it.
Among the reasons for getting the schedule out early...
The schools must all arrange a lot of logistical issues. Transportation and Lodging for 100+ people (team, staff, cheerleaders, band, administrators, etc.) is not easy to come up with in the 3 days they have as it stands now. When I was a student at Memphis State, we had a chartered TWA jet (not sure what size but it was a regular commercial jet) to go to Boise one year.