A little more than four weeks before Selection Sunday, the NCAA did something this Saturday that it hadn’t done before with the men’s basketball tournament.
The Selection Committee put out the top-16 teams as of that moment, and even bracketed them into the regions that they would be in.
Three Pac-12 teams saw their names pop up on the screen, including the Arizona Wildcats, who were slotted as the 9th overall team, and the 3-seed in the Midwest Region.
“I think it’s a great idea,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said of the show existing.