Decisions for the NCAA Tournament selection committee are always difficult at the end of the at-large list. The final teams in and the first ones out generate the bulk of discussion and debate.
That will be the case this year, with Big 12 teams involved. But the committee also has work to do at the top of the bracket.
Selection committee chair Bernard Muir said earlier this week that seven teams were in consideration for a No. 1 seed. A guess at the leaders: Virginia, Duke, Gonzaga, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Michigan State.
Some of the teams could have made things easy by winning their conference tournament.