The Hoops HD Selection Committee – Saturday Night Update

Tonight was Day 3 of the Hoops HD Selection Committee meetings via Zoom conference call; our first major task of the night was adding the final 8 at-large bids to the field. With a lack of bid thieves this year, we were assured of bids opening up thanks to the American, Conference USA and SEC results from today.

Recall from Thursday’s meetings that our four carryover teams for the purposes of at-large selection were Mississippi State, NC State, Providence and Rutgers. After extensive debate of each under consideration team, each committee member sent a list of their top 8 teams to our committee chairman Chad Sherwood. The top 4 vote-getters (Oklahoma State, Penn State, Utah State and Arizona State) joined the 4 carryover teams and then each committee member ranked these teams 1 through 8. In this round of voting, we added Penn State, Providence, Mississippi State and Rutgers to our at-large board. (This also opened up another at-large bid with a bid thief no longer possible in the B1G). We repeated the process once more with only 3 carryovers; NC State was returned to the Under Consideration board after failing to make the ballot in 2 consecutive rounds. This time around, the top 5 vote-getters to join the 3 carryover teams were NC State, Vanderbilt, Clemson, Nevada and Boise State. After ranking these teams 1 through 8, our final four at-large teams added were Boise State, Utah State, Arizona State and NC State. Our first four teams out were Oklahoma State, Vanderbilt, Nevada and Clemson.

Our next task was seeding the remaining lines from 8 through 16. After the field was seeded, we began scrubbing the seed list to account for Saturday results. Below is what our board looks like through tonight’s games:

Sunday afternoon will be the final day of the Hoops HD Selection Committee – there will be additional scrubbing of the seedlist to account for Sunday’s games. We will also build our bracket; no contingencies will be necessary.