When the NCAA Division I men¡¯s basketball tournament committee members hunkered down in Indianapolis over the weekend, they pored over spreadsheets, stared at a bank of televisions, sharpened their pencils and massaged their temples to figure out how to best seed the 68-team tournament field.
They might have saved themselves all that time ¡ª and anguish ¡ª by picking names out of a hat.
This year¡¯s tournament, which was announced Sunday night, has an on-any-given-Sunday feel, where blue bloods don¡¯t feel so rich, mid-majors don¡¯t feel so middling and every team enters with questions ¡ª even at the very top.
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