selection sunday on now.....

[Rita]

Anaheim v. the Cardinal from Stanford.

[Jacob '06]

If anyone gets tickets and doesn't want to go I'd probably take them.

[jaybert]

how do the locations work?  I was following what ESPN had for locations, which is why i thought it was just d.c. or tampa

[Rita]

I wonder if Georgia winning the SEC bumped Cornell down to a #14 seed.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Or Temple winning the A10 for that matter.

[Jordan 04]

Rough draw.

And we're 1 seven-footer short of covering both Lopez brothers.

[Jackson]

Pretty disappointing.  I was hoping we'd face an inconsistent Big East team like Notre Dame or Louisville.  This is a tough, tough draw.

[dbilmes]

So much for getting a big turnout of Cornell fans. Anaheim is quite a haul from the Northeast.

[Oat]

Is the NCAA selection a human-based process or is it a statistics-based mathematical formula?

[Greenberg '97]

[quote Oat]Is the NCAA selection a human-based process or is it a statistics-based mathematical formula?[/quote]

Yes.

[jtwcornell91]

Does anyone know what time the games in Anaheim are on Thursday?

[Rita]

[quote jaybert]how do the locations work?  I was following what ESPN had for locations, which is why i thought it was just d.c. or tampa[/quote]

The locations are "pods". Each "pod" has 8 teams, 4 of which are linked (i.e. 1 v. 16 and 8 v. 9 teams). However, the each pod can have 2 groups of teams from different regions (based on the master bracket).

What the NC$$ has been doing for about the past 4-5 years is placing teams, especially the higher seeds, in the pods location closest to their home to minimize travel.

Thus even though the "East region" has Tampa and DC hosting games, as pods Tampa is hosting a set of teams from the midwest and west brackets. Similarly, DC is hosting teams 2 sets of teams from the west. Traveling to DC is a lot easier for  Xavier and Duke compared to Denver/Anaheim.

[Jackson]

Humans make the selections and choose seeds, but often the final few spots in a tournament will come down to statistical formulas like the Ratings Percentage Index.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratings_Percentage_Index

[jy3]

[quote jtwcornell91]Does anyone know what time the games in Anaheim are on Thursday?[/quote]

cannot find this information yet.

[Oat]

[quote Greenberg '97][quote Oat]Is the NCAA selection a human-based process or is it a statistics-based mathematical formula?[/quote]

Yes.[/quote]

so what is it?