Pac-12 in NCAA tournament

Conference games should count more than nonconference results

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00:00 The way they select teams for the NCAA tournament is all very interesting and for the most part

00:04 the teams that are supposed to get in, get in.

00:07 However, I think it's absurd that they don't count conference games and results and standings

00:14 as being more important than non-conference games.

00:17 In a lot of cases, coaches are just using those non-conference games to prepare for

00:22 the conference games.

00:23 Now that's not solely the case, of course, but the teams are finding themselves in non-conference

00:29 play.

00:30 They are more really what the team is during conference play.

00:35 And why the selection committee doesn't put more weight on that than on non-conference

00:41 games, I can't figure out now.

00:43 Maybe they actually do in the secret of that selection room meeting, but they're not supposed

00:49 to.

00:50 They're supposed to count all games the same.

00:54 Years ago, they used to count the last ten games of the season as being more important

00:58 because it showed how a team was playing as it moved into the NCAA tournament, but they

01:03 don't use that as a criterion anymore.

01:05 So they're just stuck with making every game important.

01:09 So it's not a matter of playing their best at a given time, it's just a matter of who's

01:14 had the best results over the whole year, which I don't think is the best way to determine

01:20 which teams should get at-large berths.

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