Moments after Stephen F. Austin made the play of the year to win at Duke, I jokingly tweeted that the NCAA Selection Committee should do away with No. 1 seeds this year. Since the four preseason choices -- Michigan State, Duke, Kentucky and Kansas -- have lost five times before the first turkey is carved, one can understand that line of thinking.
Unfortunately for in-the-moment bracketologists, it doesn't work that way. Come Monday morning, yours truly and others will need four No. 1 seeds as a required part of the job. And, given the calendar, the process of making those determinations is probably more revealing than the actual selections.