Comments for NCAA Tournament Coverage from Bracketography

Comment on First Bracket of 2012 Is Up! by admin

admin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:18:51 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I switched the #9 seeds Harvard and Kansas State in order to fix this problem.

Comment on First Bracket of 2012 Is Up! by brandon

brandon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:22:55 +0000

just an fyi– you have uconn-harvard in the first round, that’d be a rematch from this year.

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by Kenneth Ramsey

Kenneth Ramsey — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:21:15 +0000

Are there any plans in the future to add or replace committee members with people that have experience of playing or coaching in NCAA tournaments.

Do referees ever look at game films to improve their calls in close games?

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:05:42 +0000

This year’s selection process was crap. Ohio State the number one overall seed by far had the hardest bracket. There is no reason to put Kentucky at a four seed when they beat Florida (sorry dismantled them) in the SEC championship game. Ohio state should have never played a team of that cailber that early in the tournament. You completley took away all the hard work that the Bucks did.

Anybody could have picked a better bracket than this one.

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by Roger Quick

Roger Quick — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:12:25 +0000

The selection committee did a great job as evidenced by the Big East selections (2 of 11 in the sweet sixteen) and the ACC (3 out of 4 in the sweet sixteen).

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by David Mihm

David Mihm — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:09:17 +0000

SanityCheck,

Nope, it’s definitely going to stay up ‘on the Board’. This site is not affiliated with the NCAA in any way, and so long as no one uses profane or abusive language, all comments stay up.

I happen to agree with you that a little more transparency in the selection process of the Selection Committee would be beneficial for the game.

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by sanitycheck2

sanitycheck2 — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:57:47 +0000

This is simple: the NCAA created a COMMITTEE and chartered them to APPOINT teams to a basketball tournament, and is should be added the committee operated with a reckless disregard for merit, objectivity and fairness. The NCAA established it’s mandate when they appointed the committee: 10 Athletic Directors and Commissioners all administrators with literally no expertise or understanding of the game of college basketball. Sorry, playing college basketball before the civil rights amendment or playing minor league basketball in Germany pales to insignificance when the greatest names in this game were shunned. Ron Wellman the AD at Wake Forest? A baselball player? The NCAA couldn’t find anyone better than Ron? Ron’s biggest chore at Wake is finding tournament tickets for alumini who’s choice of seats improves with their conributions to the Wake Forest.
This was a trainwreck: The selection committee has no written guidelines, there is no appeal process, the selection committee is devoid of ex-players, coaches and others with an understanding of the game. The results are exactly what 10 Administrators nearly all with administration or accounting degrees could be relied on to produce. Read this fast cause I expect this will be off this board within minutes.

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by Justin

Justin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:44:19 +0000

I wish Harvard had gotten in, but I never expected them to. However, getting a 6 seed in the NIT is just plain insulting. A 6 seed? They only lost 6 times all year! I don’t care that they play in the Ivy. They played as good of an out-of-conference schedule as they could have with their lack of prestige and beat Colorado (who by the way has absolutely no business being in the NIT).

It seems every year that all the analysts always think the same teams are in and out at the end of the year. But the committee never goes along with those. Why? It creates unpredictability. They don’t want anyone to know who’s going to be in the tournament before they pick, they just want the selection itself to get publicity.

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by Perry Rogers

Perry Rogers — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:30:49 +0000

Kentucky #4 and Florida #2. Honestly, I just need one legitimate explanation for this.
The committee should be held accountable and should be required to provide an explanation for each and every decision.
There obviously is one bad egg if not two on the committee.
This is prejudice, absurd and unacceptable.

Comment on Full Reaction to the 2011 Bracket by Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:58:31 +0000

I now know why the NCAA men’s basketball playoff is called “March Madness.” It’s absolutely ludicrous and perhaps somewhat laughable at some of the teams who made the bracket, while others were left out.

C’mon – VCU and UAB?? And what about the disproportionate number of teams from little known, weak conferences? And how can you explain Tennessee’s selection, with a 19-14 record? Virginia Tech was definitely snubbed and there’s no rational explanation!! Does someone on the committee have a vendetta against the Hokies? They beat the formerly no. 1 ranked Duke Blue Devils once and Florida State twice – Duke deservedly made the tournament, as did Florida State – but Virginia Tech was left out. Other team fans are, rightfully so, protesting about their team being snubbed as well. This is the worst bracketing job I’ve ever witnessed!!

When TV sports analysts, including Dick Vitale, and the newspapers pick up on this snub and are very boisterous in their opinion about Virginia Tech’s snub, then some committee members must step down and let more qualified personnel conduct the selection process.

Kenneth H.

Virginia Tech Class of 1978

College of Science