The NCAA Tournament brackets were revealed Sunday, and I thought the committee did a solid job.
In my mock bracket, the only difference in selection was I had TCU in and Belmont out, because I thought the committee would come down against a mid-major. That didn’t happen. The committee gave Belmont, from the Ohio Valley Conference, the benefit of the doubt.
In fact, of the 67 teams that we agreed on, only one team, Iowa, had a seed number more than slot different from my projection. I had the Hawkeyes a No. 8; the real bracket had the Hawkeyes a No.