This is how a selection show should be. Revealing the #1’s, then revealing the brackets from top left, bottom left, top right, bottom right. Talk to the chairman and offer Predictions. Simply for me this is how a selection show should be run because it is basic and makes sense instead of revealing the #1 seeds for the region. It just makes sense at first so now you know who may play who. Maybe people don’t think that this is a good way to do it, although to me this makes a lot of sense.
Watching these selection shows are getting me ready for this years Selection Show. I cannot wait for March Madness 2023, I will be at the First and Second round games in Sacramento.
I was a student at VCU during that run, and near the campus library was a giant poster of Dick Vitale hanging up with the caption " eat crow, baby!" underneath it.
This was the last time the selection committee did an S-Curve of much of the field (in 2018, the top two seeds were on an S-curve). 1 - Ohio St, Kansas, Pittsburgh, Duke 2 - San Diego St, Florida, Notre Dame, North Carolina 3 - Syracuse, Purdue, BYU, Connecticut 4 - Texas, Wisconsin, Louisville, Kentucky 5 - West Virginia, Vanderbilt, Kansas St, Arizona 6 - Cincinnati, St. John's, Georgetown, Xavier 7 - Washington, Texas A&M, UCLA, Temple 8 - Michigan, Butler, UNLV, George Mason 9 - Villanova, Illinois, Old Dominion, Tennessee 10 - Penn St, Michigan St, Florida St, Georgia 11 - Marquette, Missouri, Gonzaga, USC/VCU
The thing is, they weren’t wrong about VCU. They DIDN’T have any business being in the tournament, their resume entering the tournament didn’t even suggest that they were on the radar. And yet we all saw what happened
Looking at VCU, while they had that February skid they had quality wins over UCLA (neutral) and George Mason which alongside getting to the CAA title game I think was the ultimate difference for them.
