Chairmen of the NCAA selection committee shoot down conspiracy theories year after year. The idea that the bracket crafters sit in their Indianapolis hotel conference room and concoct juicy potential matchups in the NCAA tournament? Ludicrous, they say. And probably so.
But on Selection Sunday 2016, they still offered up the rich possibility of No. 3 seed Texas A&M meeting No. 6 Texas in Sunday's Round of 32 at Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Arena. The West regional meeting would be the first NCAA tournament pairing ever between the "former" rivals.
"It wasn't specifically arranged," Joe Castiglione, the selection committee head and Oklahoma athletic director said Sunday night on a conference call.