Talking about the pandemic tournament on game day, an interesting nugget of info: the tourney this year will be based on a pure S-curve! Makes sense since geographic priority doesn’t matter with everything in Indianapolis, but very rarely does the NCAA do things that make sense, haha.
This could end up being an interesting case study for whether a true S curve, rather than the convoluted seeding metrics currently used, might make for a more competitively balanced tourney. And for those people on the board have been crying out for an S-curve for years, enjoy!
Other interesting changes: the tourney will be condensed so that it isn’t always Thursday-Sunday games... looks like the entire tourney is going to be in three weeks as opposed to four. So less rest could perhaps help deeper teams and/or make it harder to prepare for unexpected or unusual matchups.
Like everything this year, will be interesting to see how these changes affect everything.