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College Basketball's Unorthodox Season Sets the Stage for a Wide-Open March

When the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee puts together the tournament bracket, will it rely on traditional stats, NET rankings, Ken Pomeroy’s system or a roulette wheel? And does it even matter?

This season up has been down, good has been bad and Stephen F. Austin has beaten Duke. The No. 1 ranking has been passed around like a microphone at a party of toddlers: Everybody wants it, but nobody knows what to do with it.

In the course of five games, Clemson lost to Yale at home, won at North Carolina for the first time in 60 tries and beat Duke.