A Michigan State flavor as metrics considered for NCAA tournament
The NCAA tournament used a seeding process for the first time in 1978.Four teams in each region received automatic bids as conference winners that season, and they were seeded based on their conference’s win-loss record in the five previous tournaments.The tournament has been evolving ever since, continually searching for methods to create the best possible bracket.And, thankfully, it’s not done yet.
Source: Chicago Tribune