Selection Sunday 2017: How to watch the bracket announcement

Eventually, the games must be played, structure must be applied, and structure is never as much fun as what we pretend could be.

Let’s take a look at all the information you need to tune in to the show, a brief glimpse into the selection process and a rundown of which teams are on the bubble and hoping to hear their names called this evening. Stay with The Oregonian/OregonLive throughout the day to see seedings, matchups and locations for all 68 teams. Had the game won. We’re going to go back to that.

Bracket Matrix indexes 117 predicted brackets and, as of Thursday morning, had Syracuse averaging as the next-to-last at-large team (being listed in 69 of those brackets). “I mean there was a dog pile of coaches in the hallway!” “I feel like we’re playing some of our best basketball”.

The NCAA Tournament begins on Tuesday in Dayton, and its first and second rounds are set for next weekend.

I’m glad I learned my lesson many years ago because I don’t know if I could resist all these choices. Gonzaga is also among them, though their case for a 1 seed isn’t quite as strong, but they’ll likely get one.

Mandel projects Providence, Kansas State, Rhode Island and USC to make the field.

Here are some thoughts as we get ready for a final day of hoops ahead of another edition of March Madness.

“That’s how good I think this conference is”, she said. “We just didn’t feel the two-hour block was needed”.

Forever redefining the potentialities of Cinderella, still the only fairy tale character ever cited in this affair, VCU is and was the rarest of exceptions.

UCLA, Villanova and Kansas have all had excellent seasons this year, and it would be surprising if they were not all assigned No. 1 seed placements for this year’s bracket. The Irish were the national preseason No. 1 team before losing early on. Two, then two more, then 16, 16 more, then eight and eight.

The Wolverines and Commodores earned big wins in their conference tournaments against ranked teams on Friday. I know. insane talk.

Seven teams are virtual locks to make the field of 64, which will be revealed Monday night. I know some of you are still recovering from the homecoming football loss, but dust off your favorite Middle Tennessee hat and rep the Blue Raiders this week.

Now there’s a bubble I could probably watch. Just not for long.