httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbvxuGzNLKM
Thanks to the NCAA tournament selection committee’s criminal decision to award a No. 10 seed to a 31-4 Shockers team that was viewed as one of the best in the country, a game that could have been played in the Final Four and should only have been played in a regional final or, at worst, in a Thursday or Friday Sweet 16 matchup, was contested in the early afternoon of a crowded Sunday of second-round basketball.
This was just the second time in NCAA history that two 30-win teams were pitted against each other on the first weekend of the tournament, a slap in the face to both Kentucky and Wichita, who both had regular seasons that should have prevented such an early game against a worthy adversary.
Wichita State was ranked No. 7 in KenPom but was deemed the 39th best team in the tournament and given that lowly No. 10 seed.
The non-power schools are seeded poorly and thus given harder games earlier in the tournament that they lose, theoretically confirming to the powers-that-be that the seeds were right to begin with and completing the circle of basketball bias.
Wichita State is anything but a mid-major, by the way.
Wichita State just missed completely showing up the selection committee.