Changes are coming to this year’s Selection Sunday show — and not just the move from CBS to TBS. For the first time, the show will open by revealing all 68 teams in the NCAA tournament, followed by the announcement of the bracket.
TBS is ruining the Selection Sunday show by making us wait to see the March Madness bracket
Just give us the dang bracket!
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Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
This means we’ll know if bubble teams like Saint Mary’s, Syracuse and Louisville are in the field of 68 before we know any of the matchups.
This sounds really bad:
This might be a relief if you’re a fan of a bubble team who is on pins and needles until the final region is announced. For everyone else, it just seems kind of annoying — a needless change to drain every last drop of suspense out of the moment.
Just give us the bracket.
We don’t need to be teased. There’s one reason the entire country tunes into the Selection Sunday show. It’s to see the bracket, not the overall seed number of some middling ACC program.
The only upside is here is that the entire bracket could leak while TBS drags this out. Hey, it’s happened before!
Other things to know about the Selection Sunday show
- It’s two hours long. TWO HOURS.
- It’s going to be filmed in front of a live audience in Atlanta for the first time
- Yes, there’s still going to be a lot of Charles Barkley
The show starts at 6 p.m. ET on TBS.
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