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By Jerry Palm
I had the pleasure of attending my fourth NCAA media mock selection committee meeting in Indianapolis the last couple of days and we were given an inside look at the processes and procedures the real committee goes through to select, seed and bracket the field. Some special attention was given to bracketing because those procedures are new this year.
This past off-season, the committee relaxed some of the bracketing rules pertaining to how soon teams from the same confernece may be bracketed to meet in the tournament. The purpose of this was to allow the committee greater flexibility with the intent of being able to keep teams closer to their true seed. The committee has the ability to move a team up or down one spot from its true seed to help meet the bracketing rules, but in recent years, with conferences getting larger, they found themselves using that exception too often for their comfort.
Now, teams from the same conference can meet as early as the round of 32 if they only played each other once during the regular season. That made the bracketing process significantly easier. When we put our bracket together, we were only forced to switch two at-large teams (Providence and West Virginia) that were playing in the First Four to avoid a conference conflict. Every other team is on its true seed line.
Also, the commitee no longer requires keeping the top teams from each conference in separate regions. They will still do that if those teams are top 4 seeds, but after that, all bets are off. That's why you see Arizona and UCLA, the top two teams from the Pac-12, in the same region. UCLA is a six seed, so the rule doesn't apply.
The entire article is @ Mock committee meeting shows how new bracketing rules work - CBSSports.com
I had the pleasure of attending my fourth NCAA media mock selection committee meeting in Indianapolis the last couple of days and we were given an inside look at the processes and procedures the real committee goes through to select, seed and bracket the field. Some special attention was given to bracketing because those procedures are new this year.
This past off-season, the committee relaxed some of the bracketing rules pertaining to how soon teams from the same confernece may be bracketed to meet in the tournament. The purpose of this was to allow the committee greater flexibility with the intent of being able to keep teams closer to their true seed. The committee has the ability to move a team up or down one spot from its true seed to help meet the bracketing rules, but in recent years, with conferences getting larger, they found themselves using that exception too often for their comfort.
Now, teams from the same conference can meet as early as the round of 32 if they only played each other once during the regular season. That made the bracketing process significantly easier. When we put our bracket together, we were only forced to switch two at-large teams (Providence and West Virginia) that were playing in the First Four to avoid a conference conflict. Every other team is on its true seed line.
Also, the commitee no longer requires keeping the top teams from each conference in separate regions. They will still do that if those teams are top 4 seeds, but after that, all bets are off. That's why you see Arizona and UCLA, the top two teams from the Pac-12, in the same region. UCLA is a six seed, so the rule doesn't apply.
The entire article is @ Mock committee meeting shows how new bracketing rules work - CBSSports.com
