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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 5230110, member: 730"] Way way way too much attention is put on the last 4 slots. They mean a lot to the coaches as job security but otherwise are irrelevant except for the fans of a few teams. If the process was transparent there would be more than a 90 second interview of the chair at the end of an hour long selection show. There would be a press conference and deep penetrating questions would be asked. Instead ESPN spends 45 seconds praising the committee followed by one question about the actual seeding. Seeding 350 team college basketball with little regard to stats other than wins/losses is bound to be less than optimum. Then they take that bracket and put them into a single-elimination tournament and declare the winner to be the best team in the country that season. The media loves it because every game is a do-or-die game and so they poo-poo any suggestion that a 16 team double elimination tournament would include all the possible winners in a much fairer format. [/QUOTE]