I have to tell you – I have lots of respect for the Selection Committee, because this is crazy hard.

How do you compare profiles that are so different.  Lets look at Tennessee vs. Gonzaga.  Lets remember that Gonzaga entered the week in the AP Poll as the #1 team and Tennessee entered it 8th.

But Tennessee beat Gonzaga in December by 3 points.  Tennessee at 28-4 have other victories against Kentucky, Louisville, Florida, Mississippi, two against Mississippi St and Memphis.   Gonzaga has Duke, St. Mary’s, Creighton, and San Francisco.  Gonzaga has relied on that one victory through the whole season and the fact that before St. Mary’s upset, they were cruising through the WCC.

So, you have a team that has 3 more top Quadrant 1 wins, won the head to head against them, and all 4 of their losses are better than the third loss from Gonzaga.  And yet most are going to expect the committee to rank Gonzaga better.  To be fair, the game getting ready to kick off between the Volunteers and Kentucky will probably help the committee further with this.

But can we really rank Gonzaga as a #1 seed simply because they beat Duke when they were healthy.  Syracuse did the same thing – no one is saying that Syracuse should be the number 1 team.

I am just struggling with this right now – because it is also that I am not picking who I think is better – it is who I think the Committee will say is better………

Meanwhile. also struggling to figure out how any one of three players from Auburn who mugged the Florida player going up for a last second three-point tying shot.   The shot doesn’t even get half way to the basket – tough to shoot when someone is hanging on your arm.  He might not have hit the three FTs to tie the game – but he should have had the chance.