What is the selection committee?

The selection committee picks the at-large teams. It also seeds and brackets the field. Separate committees run the men's and women's tournaments.

Twelve people sit on it

Each committee holds 12 members.

Members serve five-year terms.

They are conference commissioners and athletics directors.

Experienced administrators sit with them.

They come from across Division I.

Men and women get separate committees.

Three jobs, one reveal

First, they pick the at-large teams.

Automatic qualifiers need no pick.

Next, they seed all 76 teams.

Then they place teams into brackets.

The reveal comes on Selection Sunday.

See how at-large bids get picked.

They watch all season long

Watching starts on the season's first night.

It runs straight through Selection Sunday.

Members meet many times each season.

Each member monitors up to six conferences.

Nobody monitors their own league.

That is nearly five months of evaluating.

No formula, and no home cooking

No single metric decides any pick.

Members weigh results, metrics, and observations.

The NET and Wins Above Bubble help.

Members cannot vote for their own school.

Every pick comes by secret ballot.

Then Sunday reveals every choice.