Back we are for another season of scouring the Pairwise — the objective system the NCAA uses to select and seed the NCAA tournament — with our Analysis, Breakdown and Comparisons (ABCs).
I've been writing about this for 20 years now. When I wrote my first article explaining the process, very few people got it or even believed it. It took over a decade to educate most of even the mainstream media.
But here we are. It's gotten so routine it's practically boring.
As noted the last few years, the machinations of the Pairwise are so slimmed down these days that there are fewer arcane nuances to decipher.