Storylines over fairness?

[Pakuni]

Maybe it's just a snap reaction on my part, but it seems the selection committee wants to create interesting storylines above all else this year.
Not just with Crean vs. Izzo, but a possible Howland vs. Pitt in the Sweet 16, possible second-round game between Illinois and Southern Illinois (Bruce Weber's old team), OSU vs. Xavier (i.e. the Matta Bowl) in the second round, etc.

[ecompt]

it's called "selling tickets." The NCAA is sick of staging regional games with 2,000 people in the stands, so they have to devise ways of getting people interested. 

[mu_hilltopper]

That may be true .. but please, no more than 8 people will say "oh, Izzo vs. Crean?  This I gotta see!" and buy tickets (in Winston-Salem.)