We’ve had a night to digest Kansas State’s selection as the final team in the NCAA Tournament field, and now it’s time to sort through the fallout. There’s a lot to sift through, so we’ll again result to the trusty bullet list.
Announcement reactions
- Dan Collins of the Winston-Salem Journal reports on Wake Forest’s selection, and by extension K-State’s
- Mike Waters of the Syracuse Post-Standard dissects committee chairman Mark Hollis’s explanation of why K-State is in and Syracuse isn’t
- Zach Helfand of the Los Angeles times on the three-way battle between USC, K-State, and Syracuse for the final two spots
- Jason Butt of the Macon Telegraph isn’t arguing that Georgia should have gotten in, but he does a side-by-side comparison of K-State and Georgia to explain why they didn’t
Preview materials
- CBS’s Matt Norlander power-ranks the 68-team field, and he’s got K-State higher than Middle Tennessee State, at least
- ESPN’s Andy Katz has more from Mark Hollis, but it’s about the top seed decisions, not K-State
- And finally, in keeping with the sub-heading, ESPN’s Keith Lipscomb has a metric ton of random facts about the tournament field
K-State awaits its NCAA destination (and there’s no doubt about this one), but handed out its team awards yesterday.