NCAA Bracketology – Crazy Picks

Update – While Dayton is certainly not a championship caliber team, it’s important to note that 5 of the 8 schools selected ahead of UD (with records and rankings lower than UD) lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament:
Texas A&M – won
Arizona – lost
St Joseph – lost
Baylor – lost
Villanova – won
Kansas St – won
Oregon – lost
Kentucky – lost

March 16 – I don’t ordinarily comment on this sort of issue, but I’ll be the first to file the complaints for the 2008 NCAA basketball tourney selections… The University of Dayton Flyers had a better RPI than 8 schools selected for at large bids (see table below). Indeed, Dayton had both better RPI and Strength of Schedule (SOS) than 5 of the schools selected (Why were Baylor, Villanova, and Oregon selected?).

I don’t know of any other school that was snubbed as badly as the Flyers…