Image via Wikipedia The NCAA Tournament is coming up and while I am not the biggest fan of basketball I do enjoy March Madness. I don’t fully get the seeding though. I understand that you want to spread the talent around to all 4 brackets, but how do you decide the 1 and 2 seeds. You wouldn’t think it is complicated but the NCAA can’t make anything simple.I was listening to SportsCenter today and heard a debate about who the 4 number 1 seeds were going to be and Duke wasn’t mentioned. I found that curious because Duke is currently ranked number 4 in the country. BYU was in as the 4th 1 seed on one projection and not included in the other. Once again this makes no sense. BYU is currently ranked 3rd and in both projections were outside the top 3 spots for the tournament. Texas, meanwhile, was the team that was being discussed as the only other possibility for a 1 seed. Texas is ranked 8th and just lost to CU after being ahead in that game by 22 points. How are they in the discussion?
Why is it a discussion in the first place? There is a ranking system in college basketball. Doesn’t it make sense that the top 4 seeds in the tournament should be the top 4 teams at the end of the season? Selection Sunday is meant to display all the teams that will go to the tournament. It’s not supposed to be a circus of who’s a 1 seed or a 2 seed. The only surprises should be in who are the final teams to make it or what bracket a team was placed in. What is the point of rankings if it doesn’t determine tournament seeding?
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