March Madness is Here! Did NCAA Selection Committee get it right?

     March Madness is officially here! Selection Sunday has come and gone and once again the NCAA Selection Committee is at the front of jubilation and sadness from teams that got in and others that should of gotten into the Big Dance but were not invited.  As it is every year, there will always be grumblings about which Team(s) did get in and who didn't. Bubble teams are always waiting with baited breath to see if they will play again or possibly going to the NIT instead. CBS and the NCAA wanted to drag the Bracket Selection out for almost 2 hours. It was very boring from the start and many are thanking whomever released the Bracket info early through social media so we didn't have to wait 2 hours to see the 68 teams selected!
    The NCAA Selection Committee laid out the groundwork what was needed of smaller schools to have a chance to get into the Tournament. One school stands out among all the smaller schools. Monmouth played a tough schedule going on the road and playing much bigger schools from the Big Conferences and winning some of the games and yet even with a 27-7 record, were snubbed for middle of the road major conference schools. The message was to the smaller mid conference schools, do not do as we say and you had better hope and pray that we might decide to let you into the Big Schools Basketball Tournament someday.
    What do We expect when the NCAA Selection Committee is made up of 10 AD's, most from the Big Conferences that are going to be biased towards their own conferences as it is all about money anymore.. If this is the best that these 10 AD's could do, then we might as well form another Tournament for Mid-Conference schools. Please explain to me how Vanderbilt, Oregon State, and Syracuse got in along with Michigan and not Monmouth, St.Bonaventure, Valparaiso and St. Mary's? Not to mention the snubbing of SDSU as well. So going forward lets call this what it is, NCAA Major Conference Tournament with a few mid majors allowed.  The NCAA has become spineless and a joke allowing the Major Conferences to control who gets in and who doesn't! As I said it is all about Power and Money anymore. Wins and Money and Power for the Big Boys overshadows anything else!!!
     With that being said, even the seedings were a joke! How Michigan State was not an #1 seed is beyond me. They beat Kansas this year, won the B1G Conference Championship, had 29 wins and 3 of their 5 losses were without Player of the Year, Denzel Washington! How does Texas A&M get a higher seeding than Kentucky? How does Big Ten Regular Season Champion Indiana get a #5 seed? How does North Carolina and Virginia both get #1 seeds out of the ACC? Many of the seedings are questionable at best but once Thursday rolls around, all this will be mostly forgotten and Brackets will be filled out and for 3 weeks College Basketball will take the center stage!
     Dick Vitale said it best yesterday, that He believes the seedings and Brackets were already done far in advance of the Conference Championship games played on Sunday and I do wonder why these 10 AD's took a week to pick the teams for the NCAA Tournament. Were there back door dealings? What was discussed? How did they truly reason among themselves to continue to put average at best major conference schools in and screw over the underdog but very deserving mid major conference schools. The Selection Committee wants the mid majors to play more non conference road games against the major schools but most major conference schools refuse to play the good mid major schools! This insures that major conference schools will continue to get into the NCAA Tournament year in and year out!!
     Perception is the name of the game nowadays. The major conference Bubble teams that got in should make sure to send to the 10 AD's a generous basket of goodies while the teams that should be in that were snubbed by these same 10 AD's need to send them a thank you note for screwing the deserving once again. Lets be perfectly clear, the NCAA Tournament makes a boat load of Money and the Power Major Conferences want a cut of this money and not to share it with anyone, let alone the mid major conferences. The snubbing of these teams to allow average at best major conference teams into the Tourney is all about Power and Money and nothing else!!!!  So until the NCAA gets allot of pressure and a backbone, this will continue to happen. The stakes will rise more each and every year. So onto March Madness, 68 teams vying to be the best and win it all, unfortunately it isn't the best 68 teams that will be in the NCAA Tournament and that is the biggest shame and sadness that comes from the NCAA Selection Committee.. @cupofjoeinthed