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Palm: Last chances to impress the selection committee

This is the biggest day of the season for all of those teams trying to play their way into the NCAA Tournament. So many of those fence sitters are in major conferences, and all six of those conference tournaments play either quarterfinals or opening ...

From JERRY PALM, Sporting News,  13 Mar 2008
Related Topics: National Basketball Association

Palm: A flawed field looks toward Selection Sunday

The relative quality of the field is difficult to quantify, but in the 14 years that I have been tracking the selection process, I have noticed some common characteristics that the committee has a history of rewarding -- or not rewarding -- and this ...

From JERRY PALM, Sporting News,  6 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Virginia Tech

Palm: All four No. 1 seeds are still up for grabs

There are seven teams fighting for number one seeds, which is a large number for this late in the season. Every year at this time, I spend most of my time talking about the teams at the bottom or off the bottom of the bracket. This year though, ...

From JERRY PALM, Sporting News,  28 Feb 2008

Palm: BracketBusters has little impact on NCAA tourney

There isn't a single case of a team that clearly would have made the NCAA Tournament had it not lost its BracketBusters game. The closest might be Missouri State, which lost at home to Winthrop last year. Given the quality of teams left out of the ...

From JERRY PALM, Sporting News,  21 Feb 2008
Related Topics: ESPN,  George Mason

Palm: Committee to judge Louisville, Kentucky, others at full strength

When the selection committee gathers to select and seed the field for this year's NCAA Tournament, it will look at ratings percentage index (RPI) numbers and several other computer-generated numerical measures of teams' performances. There is one ...

From JERRY PALM, Sporting News,  14 Feb 2008
Related Topics: David Padgett,  Chris Wright

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