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NCAA Tournament 2017: Injuries, suspensions that will impact selection committee decisions

For the 10 members of the NCAA Tournament selection committee, trying to determine the 36 best at-large resumes heading into Selection Sunday won’t be strictly about numbers.

It’s about how teams arrived at the numbers they produced, and that’s why you’ll hear this over and over for the next couple of months: “It’s not that simple.” The selection committee factors in injuries and suspensions when looking at a team’s resume. If a team didn’t have a key player in a game they lost, but will have that player for the tournament (for example, when Duke lost at Virginia Tech without Grayson Allen), that’s a consideration.