Not going to complain, just a question.

Did the same officials work Thursday/Friday? Or are there enough tournament quality officials to have different people work both days?

AND, if an official works the Championship game, does that mean he worked every round before or whatt?

96 officials work round 1 -- 3 X 32 games.

48 of those 96 work round 2.

24 of those 48 work round 3.

12 of those 24 work round 4.

For the final 4, there are 3 crews of 3 -- 2 crew each work a semi final, and a different crew works the championship.

At least that is how I have seen it explained in the past.

Everything is right except for the third and fourth rounds. At each of the four sites, a separate crew is assigned to each of the three games.

jbduke is correct. each regional semi-final and regional final game has a different crew. From the 36 officials that work these games, the 10 officials are chosen for the Final Four (3 games w/ 3 officials each AND an alternate who covers all 3 games).

Officials should be getting the famous "FedEx" packages today/tomorrow with their assignments for the games this week. Get a package - you're in! No package - your on the couch like the rest of us watching the game on TV.

Anyone know who got those lucky FedEx packages for this week?

I have been informed differently.
Here is my understanding:
96 officials are selected to work the first round. Each official works a single first round game.
Half of those officials are PREselected to work a second round game at the same site.
From the entire 96 that worked, 36 are chosen based upon performance and past experience to work one game in the Sweet 16 or the Elite 8.
From the 36 who work sometime during the second weekend, 10 are picked to make the 3 crews and 1 alternate at the Final Four.

Three is the maximum number of games that an official could work during the NCAA tournament.

NV, that's what jeffpea wrote above.

True, but he only discussed from the second weekend on. He didn't say anything about the first two rounds or how those 36 officials for the second weekend were selected.

I just tried to add more detail.

Hopefully, someone else can either verify my understanding or conclusively refute it.

This seems to be true...one of my mentors worked the 1st round, but not the 2nd round. He is now headed to a regional site to work either a Sweet 16 or Elite 8 game.

It is true. The NCAA basketball championship handbook (click on the link below) contains exactly how the officials are handled. The details are in Appendix O on pages 96-99.

http://www.ncaa.org/library/handbook...l_handbook.pdf