The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has announced that it will reveal the top 16 tournament teams on February 11.
That will be the top 16 teams at that time and will give teams a good idea of where they are sitting and what they need to do.
Here are details from the NCAA:
BREAKING: For the first time, Selection Committee to unveil current top 16 teams on Feb. 11: https://t.co/dXZt4bbUBH #BracketPreview pic.twitter.com/ZO2uPpFsJV
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) January 24, 2017
NCAA Selection Committee to Unveil Current Top 16 Seeds with NCAA March Madness Bracket
Preview Show to Air on CBS – Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 p.m. ET
March Madness is heating up early this season. For the first time ever, the NCAA Division I
Men’s Basketball Selection Committee will offer teams and fans an in-season look at the NCAA Division
I Men’s Basketball Championship bracket. NCAA Men’s Basketball Chair Mark Hollis will be in studio
for the reveal of the nation’s top 16 seeds, identifying the top-four teams in each region as they stand on
Feb. 11. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will present NCAA MARCH MADNESS BRACKET
PREVIEW, airing Saturday, Feb. 11 at 12:30 PM, ET on CBS.
Leading off the show, the bracket with the Committee’s top 16 seeds as of Feb. 11 will be
revealed. Hollis, along with host Greg Gumbel and analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis, will discuss
the selection and seeding process as well as the reasoning behind the Committee’s first-ever in-season
bracket preview.
Noted bracketologist Jerry Palm also will join Gumbel, Kellogg and Davis later in the show to
project out the entire 68 team bracket, analyze the field, discuss bubble teams and highlight key
story lines heading into March.
“We are excited about giving the fans a glimpse to what the men’s basketball committee is
thinking at this point of the season, and creating a buzz as we look towards Selection Sunday,” said Mark
Hollis, the director of athletics at Michigan State University and chair of this year’s committee. “It’s
important to recognize after this list has been released, there is still a significant portion of the regular
season to be played and every league must stage its conference tournament. There’s potential for quite a
bit of movement until we do it for real March 12, but this early peek will give everyone insight as to
where the committee stands as we hit the stretch run of the regular season.”
Twenty-nine days following the Committee’s bracket preview, the official NCAA Division I
Men’s Basketball Championship field of 68 will be announced exclusively on CBS on Sunday, March 12.
For the seventh consecutive year, Turner Sports and CBS Sports provide live coverage of all 67
games from the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across four national television
networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – and via NCAA March Madness Live. This year’s NCAA Final
Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 1, along with the National Championship on Monday, April
3, will be broadcast on CBS.
The idea is getting mixed reviews on social media:
@marchmadness Stop trying to be football. You're not football. We like you better than football.
— Brian Daly (@briandalynj) January 24, 2017
@marchmadness we don't want this
— msr (@tocho81) January 24, 2017
@marchmadness @insidethehall Really DON'T LIKE this The fun of selection Sunday is the reveal, leaked brackets doomed it last year, now this
— Nicolas Smallwood (@nsmall5285) January 24, 2017
@marchmadness pic.twitter.com/iVIpvAkyVX
— Jarrod Hayslette (@theradbrah) January 24, 2017
@marchmadness Please no
— Adam Stillman (@adamstillman87) January 24, 2017
This is so stupid. @marchmadness
— Eric Alexander Bunn (@EricAlexBunn) January 24, 2017
