ncaa live bracket, 68 teams in total.Selection Sunday 2012 LIVE: NCAA Tournament Brackets Revealed
31 automatic bids.
37 at-large bids.
All teams seeded 1-16 and dispatched to four regions, comprising one giant bracket.
That sounds like one extremely tough task for the NCAA Division I Selection Committee to complete. Nevertheless, the Selection Committee must take in all of the information available (RPI, strength of schedule, top-50 wins etc.) and determine the field for the 2012 NCAA Tournament. How do they do it? What's the selection process like?
"It's unbelievable how we go through the process and evaluate and compare team to team," said LSU athletic director Joe Alleva last Sunday, one of the 10 committee members. "It's just so thorough, unbelievable and very, very time-consuming. There's probably 50 to 55 that are all so close to choose from. There are probably 20 teams that could fit into those last five or six spots. The first 30 are easy to pick, the last seven you're splitting hairs."
As of a couple hours before the Selection Sunday show, ESPN's Bracketologist Joe Lunardi has BYU, South Florida, N.C. State and Seton Hall as the last four teams in the big dance. He has Drexel, Washington (the Pac-12 regular season champs), Mississippi State and Iona as the last four teams out.
31 automatic bids.
37 at-large bids.
All teams seeded 1-16 and dispatched to four regions, comprising one giant bracket.
That sounds like one extremely tough task for the NCAA Division I Selection Committee to complete. Nevertheless, the Selection Committee must take in all of the information available (RPI, strength of schedule, top-50 wins etc.) and determine the field for the 2012 NCAA Tournament. How do they do it? What's the selection process like?
"It's unbelievable how we go through the process and evaluate and compare team to team," said LSU athletic director Joe Alleva last Sunday, one of the 10 committee members. "It's just so thorough, unbelievable and very, very time-consuming. There's probably 50 to 55 that are all so close to choose from. There are probably 20 teams that could fit into those last five or six spots. The first 30 are easy to pick, the last seven you're splitting hairs."
As of a couple hours before the Selection Sunday show, ESPN's Bracketologist Joe Lunardi has BYU, South Florida, N.C. State and Seton Hall as the last four teams in the big dance. He has Drexel, Washington (the Pac-12 regular season champs), Mississippi State and Iona as the last four teams out.
