The Experts’ Thoughts on the Brackets
Now that the field has been announced, the most important thing left to do is to fill out your N.C.A.A. tournament bracket. (And be sure to take part in the Times’s Bracket Tournament, where you can match your prognosticating skills against reporters and editors from the Times… and win an iPod Touch.)
So what are the college basketball pundits from across the country predicting? Let’s take a look.
SI.com’s Stewart Mandel has one wild-card pick in his Final Four: Southern California.
Andy Katz talks with Tom O’Connor, the chairman of the selection committee, to get some insight into the committee’s decision making process. O’Connor gives some reasons why teams like Baylor and Arizona are in, while Arizona State and Virginia Tech are out.
Among several suggestions to the N.C.A.A. selection committee, Gene Wojciechowski advises them to be more like Switzerland.
Gary Parrish of CBS Sportsline doesn’t like the fact that Gonzaga and Davidson, and South Alabama and Butler were matched up against each other in the first round.
The folks at Storming the Floor don’t seem to mind. They list Gonzaga vs. Davidson as the best game.
USA Today provides plenty of bracket coverage in its special N.C.A.A. tournament section.
Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times says that U.C.L.A.’s possible tournament road should be a lesson to Southern California: you must win the games in the early part of the season when no one is watching.
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