About this time 10 years ago, I was sitting at work, listening on the phone to a broadcast on my alma mater’s campus radio station, a Selection Sunday special where the station’s sports director and a writer for the campus paper were waiting with the team for the NCAA’s announcement to start. My alma mater was hoping for an at-large bid and it made for great radio.
About this time five years ago, I was sitting in a radio studio in suburban Baltimore. That sports director was live on remote for Hoopsville with a bubble team waiting to find out if they were getting in or not. They got their answer, again, in an NCAA announcement made over the phone and broadcast to hundreds on the air.
About this time last year, I was in another studio, waiting for announcements. Thousands of people were listening as we were interviewing Texas-Dallas head coach Terry Butterfield, he of the Cinderella champ of the American Southwest Conference. And the Selection Sunday drama continued with the pairings.
Whether you’ve been huddled around a speaker phone or a radio, there’s nothing like this day, Selection Sunday. Until now. Now we’re waiting around for a news release … one which might come at 10, might come earlier, might not come at all. If you’re waiting online with us, congratulations and thanks. But it doesn’t feel the same.
Bring back the drama. This isn’t anywhere near as fun as it could be.
D3hoops.com bracketologists (yeah, we’ll accept this as a word, ESPN-types) huddled for a few hours and broke down Pool C for the men in advance of the tournament projections we’ll release tomorrow. Here’s where things stand at this hour, in the order we chose them:
