>>>My friends and brother and I are about to consume mass quantities....
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>>They may be doing the same at a few schools that got shafted -- Mississippi State, Virginia Tech, Illinois, some others. There were also some very strange seedings, such as Duke #3 overall, Michigan State getting a 5 seed despite being #11 in the country (while Wisconsin, a much inferior team from their own conference, gets a 4 seed), on and on. Temple probably should have been higher than a 5 seed.
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>>The one that really reeks is Florida making it in ahead of Miss. State. I have no idea what the committee was thinking. Or maybe smoking ;-)
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>>I almost think they intentionally left out some deserving teams to grease the skids for expansion. What do they want to go to, 96 teams? I would rather keep 64 (65 was just plain weird in the first place) after an entire play-in round for bubble teams from the real conferences and the automatic qualifiers from the humpty dumpty conferences. The latter group can still say they went to the dance and will still be gone after one game. As much as I love the tournament, it certainly does not consist of the 65 best teams in the country.
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>You don't think the Blue Devils victory in the ACC Tournament justified it?

That is what the conference chair said, that they were recognized for winning the tournament as well as the regular season. But being seeded ahead of Syracuse? The Big East was the dominant conference this year and the ACC was way off. This isn't just me. I watched the selection show and CBS's analysts immediately jumped on it. As did the legion Duke haters on the NCAA chat boards afterward ;-) Someone said "The committee kisses Duke's blue fannies once again" (but he didn't say fannies).