The brackets have been revealed and the bickering has begun.
Not over who will reach the Final Four of the men’s NCAA tournament, but over how the selection committee justified the way it built its bracket of 68 teams on Selection Sunday.
While there were plenty of correct calls — Alabama as No. 1 overall seed, UCLA earning the No. 2 in the West and Pitt making the big dance —there were several baffling decisions out of the NCAA’s HQ in Indianapolis.
Let’s run through the five most-egregious calls the selection committee made and try to make sense of them.
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