After two years of College Football Playoff week by week ranking reveals and a test pilot program for women’s college basketball on Monday night, the NCAA kicked off Tuesday morning by announcing that they will partner with CBS for a men’s basketball tournament bracket preview show on February 11th.
Goddammit.
Here’s the rundown of the 30 minute long show, which will serve as a lead-in to CBS’ broadcast of Kentucky/Alabama:
Leading off the show, the bracket with the Committee’s top 16 seeds as of Feb. 11 will be revealed. [NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair & Michigan State athletic director Mark] Hollis, along with host Greg Gumbel and analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis, will discuss the selection and seeding process as well as the reasoning behind the Committee’s first-ever in-season bracket preview.