This Year's Bracket Busters: The Selection Committee

Let's compare the final top 25 poll to the NCAA tourney seeds. 

Somewhere, consistency is lost...and reeaallly funked up.

(red=tournament seed, green=seed based on final rankings)

1. Ohio State (30) 30-3 773 1 seed 1 seed
 2. Kansas (1) 30-4 733  1 seed 1 seed
3. Florida 29-5 694 1 seed 1 seed
4. North Carolina 28-6 651 1 seed 1 seed
5. Memphis 30-3 639 2 seed 2 seed
6. UCLA 26-5 606 2 seed 2 seed
7. Wisconsin 29-5 601 2 seed 2 seed
8. Georgetown 26-6 598 2 seed 2 seed
9. Texas A&M 25-6 508 3 seed 3 seed
10. Pittsburgh 27-7 451 3 seed 3 seed
11. Texas 24-9 442 4 seed 3 seed
12. Oregon 26-7 424 3 seed 3 seed
13. Nevada 28-4 368 7 seed? 4 seed
13. Washington State 25-7 368 3 seed 4 seed
15. Southern Illinois 27-6 350 4 seed 4 seed
16. Louisville 23-9 292 6 seed? 4 seed
17. Notre Dame 24-7 266 6 seed? 5 seed
18. UNLV 28-6 176 7 seed? 5 seed
19. Butler 27-6 167 5 seed 5 seed
20. Marquette 24-9 160 8 seed? 5 seed
21. Winthrop 28-4 144 11 seed???? 6 seed
22. Maryland 24-8 117 4 seed?? 6 seed
23. Brigham Young 25-8 96 8 seed? 6 seed
24. Creighton 22-10 80 10 seed?? 6 seed
25. USC 23-11 79 5 seed??????? 7 seed
UNRANKED Virginia (20-10) 4 seed????? 7 seed (28th in AP, 29th in Coaches)
UNRANKED Tennessee (22-10) 5 seed???? 6 or 7 seed (25 in AP, 32 in Coaches)
UNRANKED Virginia Tech (21-11) 5 seed???? 7 or 8 seed (29th in AP, 28th in Coaches)
UNRANKED Duke (22-10) 6 seed???? 7 seed (27th in AP, 26th in Coaches)
UNRANKED Vanderbilt (20-11) 6 seed???? 7 or 8 seed (31st in both polls)
UNRANKED Indiana (20-10) 7 seed??? 9 seed (not even receiving a vote in Coaches, 36th in AP)
UNRANKED Boston College (20-11) 7 seed??? 8 seed (35th in AP, 34th in Coaches)
 

I won't go any further than 7 seeds (which should pretty closely reflect the top 28 if rankings mean anything).  But if the tournament seeding is anywhere near consistent with the AP and Coaches Polls, why wouldn't the top 28 be pretty consistent with the 1-7 seeds?  The top 10 are all 1, 2, and 3 seeds—IN ORDER.  After that, it's a disaster. 

I wonder how this is determined...and how much lube is required to bend over teams like Notre Dame, Nevada, Louisville, UNLV, Marquette, Winthrop, and Creighton.  I guess some teams can afford to lend their lube—namely USC, Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Duke, Vanderbilt, Indiana, and BC.

If the process was anywhere near consistent and effective, it would keep top-20 teams from facing off in the first round.  But: #17 ND vs. #21 Winthrop in the first round, possibly #17 or #21 Winthrop vs. #12 Oregon in the second round.  Horrible. 

You would assume the TOP #5 would play the BOTTOM #12, TOP #6 would play the BOTTOM #11, TOP overall seed plays the play-in winner, and so on.  That is, if the idea is to keep the best teams from playing each other before the Sweet 16.  All conference tournaments determine seed by rank and record.  So either the NCAA tournament does the same, or we stop ranking teams all season. 

You tell me which one is jacked.