Remember that UGLY NCAA tourney game vs. Michigan State in 2007??

[MUMac]

Al was one of the only people to stand up to Rupp. He knew how to push Rupp's buttons. Rupp could not figure out how to push Al's buttons the same way. At that time, the NCAA was afraid of Rupp and cowtowed to Rupp. He was not a good man, IMHO. A racist, as he proved to Al.

[unclejohn]

Not to be a logic wiener here, but that doesn't mean that it has been "disproved," just less likely to have occurred.

Good point. But the fact is, there are thirty-two games every year in the "second round." If the committee wanted to create story lines, we would see many more of them. As it is, they pop up once in a while and everybody gets suspicious. So UNC and Roy Williams play his former team Kansas in an early game. Well, they both make the tournament almost every year. They are bound to bump into each other eventually. What people forget is the dozens of games where there is simply no connection. There is no reason for Marquette to be interested in Utah State. Georgetown against Florida Gulf Coast is not a story until they lose. The point of the whole mock tournament committee was to give reporters an idea of what really goes on, and all of them concluded that there are just way too many factors to consider to worry about making provocative match-ups.