The NCAA set up a mock up of how the 2-day NCAA Selection Process works with varying sports columnists participating as selection committee members.  Quite an interesting read if your interested, article. 

To make things easy they only took only game results from up till last Wednesday and then the NCAA did mock conference tournament results to give them the automatic qualifiers.  It was funny to see Buffalo as being the team to come out of the MAC, but even crazier was that in the pure seeding process Buffalo was seeded 67th out of the 68 teams.  Never thought I would see a MAC team predicted to play in a Dayton play-in game.  Which makes me wonder if OHIO is able to put together a good run here to end the season and win the tourney how does everyone else think they might seed us?  I would hope that last year's tourney success might give us an extra edge that Buffalo didn't have, but you never know.

the dispatch today has miami as the 15 seed. we are definitely going the wrong direction.

Adding 4 teams pushed the MAC down 1 seed in most years, which would have placed the bobcats at 15 last year coming out of the 9 seed from the MAC tournament. I'll be surprised if we would have a 16 seed as long as the bottom of the west doesn't win the conference tournament.

That's the key with predicting the bottom seeds now. Right now, the best team from each conference is being put in the bracket. But once the tournaments play out, typically there are several tournaments were a team in the bottom 100s or even 200s wins and replaces a team that made have been 100 or higher. I can't imagine a MAC team getting less than a 15, but if things broke just right, it could happen.

       I have been as critical of this league as anyone on here this winter. And I usually shrug off Joe Mac' assertion that these conference rankings are cyclical (although I'm not sure Joe has brought this up recently). But I truly believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that a look at most MAC teams' rosters will show that the future does look brighter. I can only think of Akron as a team that might take a step backward next year due to graduation losses.