No matter the sport, championships bring the game's history to the fore. It’s particularly thick in college basketball, whose de facto theme song, the iconic "One Shining Moment," is an annual exercise in nostalgia.
The NCAA men's basketball tournament will soon tip off and generate more of those moments, but there are plenty of conversations to tide us over in the meantime. The topic that's consuming everyone now is tournament positioning, particularly whether a given team will make the field and, if it does, what seed it might receive. That's a game within a game, one that can be addressed from a number of angles, including whether teams were "snubbed" by the selection committee.