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tives of Division I institutions and Southeastern Conference ex- ia item for you people (the press)
conferences. plained what the panel went
The first question the board through with rounding out the fi-
‘There were probably eight or
Okay, we’ve got 64 teams. Who
plays whom, and where?
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Even Iowa State, which had a
5-9 league mark, got an at-large
bid. No team with a 5-9 league
mark has ever been given an
NCAA at-large bid until ISU’s.
“I don’t think the committee
has ever looked at precedence."
Kramer said. "That’s a great triv-
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to cover, but I think our goal is to
take the 34 best teams.
“That same team with that
same record in another year
might not get into the tournament
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so and we move along from there, this year.
it becomes very, very tight.
“I don’t believe there’s any
teams in the entire bracket that
get analyzed any closer than those
_.o_______ _ teams when we try to weigh the
champs since the two leagues do differences between them.”
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34 teams he believes should be at-
large candidates.
Those teams receiving six-of-
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First you start with the Twenty conferences whose teams, other tion and we do look at conference Tempe, Arizona (West Region
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do not deserve a bid.
If a conference receives six-of-
none votes in this area, none of its the best win-loss percentage
teams will receive an at-large bid. against the rest of the country
After re-evaluating the at-large (1182), sent six teams to the ig
teams that didn’t receive six-of- ~
nine votes in the beginning pro-
cess, the remaining teams are vot-
ed on in the same 66.7-percent
requirement until the field is
filled.
Since everyone’s confused with
chairman Roy Kramer of the
plained what the panel went
nal few participants.
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By NCAA rules, the winners of njne teams in that cluster down might not get into the tourna
the country’s top 28 conference therc for thc ]ast couple of slots,” because the strength of that
tournaments gain automatic bids Kramer said. “We all get to 28 or f *
into the tournament. so and we move along from there, this year.”
leagues spanning from the Big ^nd when you get to that last two
Eight to the Atlantic Coast to the ’ * ‘
Trans America gain automatic bids.
Also, two automatic bids go to
the winners of the Pacific 10 and
Big 10 conference regular season
not play a postseason conference
tournament.
So, now, 64 Questions has been
According to The Final Four
those 34 questions are answered
as follows:
Each committee member re-
ceives information sheets on
teams ranked No.1-102 by the
Ratings Percentage Index, al-
though the member is not re-
stricted to those listed.
Each member then selects the
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Rutherford, Dan. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 76, No. 130, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 17, 1992, newspaper, March 17, 1992; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1819262/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.