UC Irvine will be at home for regionals (Eric Sorenson)
Serving on the NCAA tournament selection committee will always be a largely thankless job, by its nature. No matter what choices the committee makes, some teams will always feel jilted, whether because they were snubbed for at-large bids or overlooked for regional host spots or top-eight national seeds, or because they don’t like their draw. As a committee member, people on Twitter are going to call you biased, or an idiot, or both. It comes with the job.
So let’s start this analysis with some positives from the 2023 NCAA tournament field, because there were plenty of them. By and[…]