The biggest reason for that, they said on ESPN, was two-fold. First, UCLA beat South Carolina by 15 points in November. While a head-to-head matchup usually does the trick, that was months ago. The second was South Carolina losing by nearly 30 points to UConn at home. UCLA didn’t have a loss that bad.

The NCAA selection committee is never going to make everybody happy when it comes to the 68-team tournament field, but there are some instances where they really do get it wrong. That seemed to happen on Sunday when they left the West Virginia Mountaineers out of the field in favor of North Carolina.

The West Virginia Mountaineers narrowly missed out on an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. In the first year under head coach Darian DeVries, West Virginia finished 19-13 on the season with a 10-10 record in Big 12 play.