Surprising NCAA Tournament Inclusions and Exclusions

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00:00The last four teams into the big dance that had that bubble elevated who surprised you the most that they made it to the NCAA tourney

00:07Oh, it's carolina

00:08It's carolina with their with their lack of quad one wins and in effect

00:13And here's the reason why I I understand that carolina's net is great or better than some

00:19I understand that carolina played better down the stretch

00:23But to me to be the way they played the second half in their regular season finale, right against duke. Yeah

00:30Which okay, they get another chance then you have cooper flag out and you're down 24 points in the first half

00:38That took me a little like a team that did not deserve a chance to be in now

00:43But then you're gonna say well

00:45We we went with the net we went to net you got to make up your minds on what you're doing

00:50Right. Is it the net? Yeah, is it the quad? Is it how you're playing? Whatever?

00:53I you know, ben's gonna talk about indiana. Boise state. I like boise state

00:57I thought this team when you look at these teams that go outside of those

01:01Non-power and they go play power teams. They went and played and beat clemson

01:06Second best team or third best team in the acc. They wouldn't beat st

01:10Maris was a regular season winner out of wcc. They

01:14You can't control who to go play. Yeah, so how are we gonna sit there and say carolina deserves to get in because of the net?

01:21But the way they've played and they have so many opportunities

01:24Opportunities more than a team like boise

01:27I still think boise state should have got that bid and it was a tough one for the broncos

01:31Jy entering the mountain west conference tournament trying to hold off the team

01:34That is as hot as you will see in college basketball right now in colorado state who ended up winning the conference tournament

01:40And of course earning that automatic berth to the big dance north carolina

01:45Perhaps the most surprising if you are questioning why the tar heels were the last team into the ncaa tournament

01:51The selection committee has always highlighted. What have you done?

01:55For me in non-conference action and to unc's credit under hubert davis. They had the fifth most difficult

02:02nationally strength of schedule in non-conference play indiana left out as was ohio state boise state

02:11And west virginia in jy there will be many in morgantown

02:15Who had a great first year under darian devries as the head coach there of the mountaineers that are questioning

02:21Why they were left out of the big dance not a great time during conference tournament week in big 12 action

02:27But neutral court victories for wvu over arizona

02:31And gonzaga a road win in the fog against a kansas team that did struggle

02:36But still a tournament team and a win over iowa state with zero losses in quad three or quad four play

02:44West virginia the first team on the outside of the bubble looking in also slightly snubbed

02:49Yeah, obviously so and I guess what the problem is is they lost to colorado in the first round of the big ball tournament

02:55but if you

02:57They're torn but when you think of colorado, right tag boils team is is much better than the last place team

03:03They took uh, the next round they took as houston within 10 points

03:07So to me that takes a look at it. I think that's where it is is

03:11How do you evaluate and how do you look at these teams?

03:14And what they do I I think that that's another team that deserves

03:18So, I mean, I don't know if xavier deserved to be in in the tournament

03:22I don't think that was a terribly a strong biggie season. We look at how they're seated behind st

03:27John, so it's very interesting to see and there's a lot of questions that one day we'll get answers to but

03:34At least the two of us there are some questionable teams that got in this tournament

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