NCAA at large bids

[M&M Guy]

Originally posted by Nevadaref
The Big Ten tourney was on ESPN plus which I don't get, so I didn't see any of those games. I still find it hard to believe that half of that conference is tourney worthy.

Indiana gave Ohio State all they could handle; in fact, they had two close-in looks before the buzzer that could've won it for them. And Mich. St. beat Illinois before running out of gas against Iowa. Add to that the fact the Big 10 has the best RPI as a conference, it seems like it might be true.

Some people have dreams of running a marathon sometime in their life, others might want to climb a mountain, or parachute from a plane. Me, I want to be in the room with the selection committee while they are making these decisions. What better job can there be than being paid to watch all these games? Mind you, I don't want to actually BE on the committee and have the pressure of deciding which teams have to stay home and which schools don't get a piece of that tournament pie. But it's fascinating to me how they combine hard statistics with opinions to get to the final 64/65.