The NCAA Tournament Selection Show Made Bizarre Changes And Twitter Hated Them


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Selection Sunday is a national holiday for many sports fans and, if nothing else, it kicks off the always entertaining college basketball marathon that is March Madness. For years, the reveal of the bracket was considered to be a virtually flawless product and, well, that made sense in that everyone wants to see what teams are headed where and which teams are inevitably snubbed from the 68-team field.

However, the 2018 version was already going to be different in that it was moving from CBS to TBS for the first time and not everyone was thrilled with that particular decision. Still, the real heat came when, at the top of the broadcast, the decision was made to list the auto-bid recipients in alphabetical order as if the internet, or any other information source, did not exist.

And, on top of that, there were apparent audio issues.

After that painful exercise was complete, the move to announce the entire 68-team field, in alphabetical order, before placing the teams in their actual brackets did not exactly generate universal approval.


Finally, there was even a live studio audience… for some reason.

It seems almost impossible to mess up this particular broadcast but, on Sunday, the good folks at the NCAA and TBS seemingly did just that.

The show will go on and, when Thursday arrives, much of the heat about this potential calamity will have faded. Still, nothing went well with the 2018 selection show and that means the 2019 edition will have a bit of extra scrutiny.

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