CBS Selection show

[BUSongwriter]

Please, CBS, return the Selection Show to an hour. Or do an hour of reveal followed by an hour of analysis regarding how smaller schools/conferences don't count. Dragging the reveal out for two hours was ridiculous, made all the moreso by the leak of the brackets on Twitter.

But what I found the most annoying was that, one bracket after another, the analysts offering their picks were gutless. Almost every pick went according to seeding. Oh, maybe someone eventually picked a 3 over a 1, but in the early rounds no one stuck their neck out and picked a 12 over a 5. an 11 over a six. Maybe one picked a 10 over a 7.

If all you're going to do with air time is pick favorites, skip it.

[Da Coach]

Yes, It was the worst selection show I have ever watched. Plus the interview with the committee chairman Joe Castiglione was worthless. All he kept saying was "we looked at the metrics". What a cop-out! Why didn't the interviewer pin him down about specifics? Why are Tulsa, Vanderbilt, Syracuse, and Temple in the NCAA ahead of St. Bonaventure, St. Mary's, and a host of mid-majors with better RPI and in some cases, better "metrics" and overall resumes.

If the metrics were so important, Syracuse's Kenpom (41) is significantly worse than Valpo's (36) and St. Mary's (34). And Temple's Kenpom is a whopping 86, worse than more than 30 teams that did not get in.

[tornado]

I turned it off when Charles Barkley - who obviously was NOT in-serviced on the touch screen Big Board -
wasted about 10 minutes rambling and confusing everyone when he kept repeatedly punching the wrong spot for the wrong team and screwing up the Big Board - apparently unable to figure out how the thing works.

[tornado]

Interview with the Head of the Selection Committee....

all he does is complain about how hard their job was...

32 teams are automatic and another 25-30 are no-brainers that nobody in the world would argue

That actually leaves only about 5-6 teams that are tough choices, and yet there are so many resources...the RPI, the SOS, the numerical ratings & Pomeroy, etc...

Here is a summary of what this interview says in case you don't want to read it...

-Joe Castiglione, the NCAA Selection Committee Chairman pretty flatly says he does not care what people think or if people disagree with their choices..
He has received hundreds of comments & e mails and not only has he not bothered to read any of them - he doesn't even look to see how many there are. He calls the e mails "the emotional outbursts of disappointed people" and arrogantly gives their opinions zero credibility.

-fully half the interview he spends complaining about the people who have expressed disagreements and seems to label them as uneducated because they don't know what goes on behind their closed doors, and they don't know how hard their job is.

-the other half was a mantra of repeated claims of how hard it was...that somehow he and his committee accomplished something nobody else could have done, when in reality hundreds of other people from Joe Lunardi on down to complete rank amateurs have done exactly the same thing with their bracketologies in their spare time with better results!

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2016-03-16/ncaa-tournament-selection-committee-chairman-reflects