Here's what you need to know about the Selection Sunday show and how the bracket is populated as you prepare to fill in your own:. This year's hour-long broadcast begins at 6 p. In the Indianapolis area, that is CBS4. What to look forward to this tourney: March Madness broadcasts will feature more announcing teams, fewer Blue Bloods. There will be remote shots from the various schools as teams learn their fates. On a decline: IU basketball demands much soul-searching as once-iconic program erodes into mediocrity.
The team NCAA Tournament will be made up of 31 automatic qualifiers — teams that win their respective conference championships — and 37 at-large bids. In a normal year, 32 automatic qualifiers and 36 at-large bids would make up the field; the Ivy league canceled its men's and women's basketball seasons , however, giving the selection committee an additional at-large team to select. The committee has no formula to seeds teams, but there will be a notable difference in it brackets contestants this year than in previous seasons: The S-curve — a method of ranking each of the 68 initial teams in a snaking pattern — will be the only method to determine what teams are placed in what region.
This essentially guarantees the top seeds are sufficiently rewarded with lower-ranked matchups as the tournament progresses; it's the difference between the top overall seed facing the No.
Geography has previously guided the selection committee's decisions on what teams were placed in what region, resulting in some teams getting unfair matchups later in the tournament.
An example of this fallacy occurred in the tournament, when Michigan State — the second-ranked 2-seed and No. The committee uses the NET ranking — established in — as its primary sorting tool to evaluate teams.
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