The athletic director will spearhead the effort to determine which 68 teams will play for the national championship.
Don’t Expect Any Transparency In NCAA Tournament Selection Process
Yahoo! Sports Jason King recently spoke with Mike Bobinski, the Xavier athletic director who was recently appointed chairman of the 2012-13 Division I Men’s Basketball Committee. In their discussion, King asked about whether or not it would be a good idea to have reporters in the room while the committee was making it’s selections. Bobinski isn’t too thrilled with the idea.
↵↵There’s some validity to that. God forbid someone makes a wisecrack about a certain school that wasn’t meant for public consumption and it gets out.
Read Article >Xavier’s Mike Bobinski Named Next NCAA Basketball Selection Committee Head
There’s no selection show for it -- in fact, it gets very little media coverage compared to the blockbuster event it controls -- but the NCAA has chosen the next person to head up its selection committee for March Madness. Xavier’s athletic director Mike Bobinski will get the honor of trying to tease out which team really deserves that 68th place in the tournament and which team should be the NIT front-runner.
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