A team's body of work and the student-athlete experience have been huge themes of the NCAA tournament selection committee over the past decade-plus in putting together each season's bracket. Those ideals have been applied fairly consistently over the past few seasons. That trend hit a snag in 2017, as some seeds in Monday's bracket appear to contradict those principles.
Some observations from the 2017 women's NCAA tournament bracket:
Regular-season performance in conference play didn't matter
The seeding of a number of teams indicates that this committee didn't take regular-season conference performance into consideration much at all.