I couldn't help but laugh when I read John Feinstein's article on AOL entitled,
"Picking Apart the Committee's Picks
The 'Exalted Ten' Does Better Than Last Year...But That's Not Saying Much"
In the story, John blasts the Committe for eliminating the names of the regions, for failing to select Utah St., the pod system, and for failing to consider the Wisconsin and OSU wins into the seeding.
But the best part of the story was his praise for the Committee:
"The ET (Exalted Ten for those not paying attention) also did right by taking Richmond and Texas El-Paso and
not giving into the temptation to award the weak Pac-10 or Big-10 a fourth bid. Richmond won at Kansas and lost in the A-10 semifinals by two points to Dayton -- at Dayton.
The Spiders are another team none of the powers want to play, and
the committee's decision not to reward Michigan, which played a typical power schedule (two non-conference road games) and beat no one significant away from home, was the right one.
Purdue did play a more difficult schedule but was awful down the stretch after a great start. Notre Dame finished fairly well but, again, the Irish didn't beat anyone significant away from home."
I love it!!!
