Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Jim Brown remembers the day Bob Knight lay down on the Hoosier Dome floor and became a human exclamation point.
So do I and it’s one of the reasons why I think that should Wright State be made a No. 16 seed in the NCAA Tournament, it wouldn’t be a bad assignment to end up in the First Four at UD Arena.
This week, national bracket predictors like ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, Jerry Palm for CBS Sports and Brian Bennett with The Athletic all have speculated WSU will be a 16 seed and end up in the First Four, which plays out next Tuesday and Wednesday at the Arena.
The Horizon League’s champion has never been a 16 seed before, but this year the conference’s overall ranking has been pulled down by four teams that have some of the worst NET rankings that the NCAA uses to rate the 358 teams playing Division I basketball.
IUPUI, with a 1-26 record, is ranked dead last at No. 358.
Wisconsin Green Bay (4-25) is No. 344. Wisconsin Milwaukee (9-22) is 333 and Robert Morris (7-20) iss 329. And UIC at (13-16) isn’t far off at No. 284.
Brown doesn’t think the tournament’s selection committee will make the Horizon League champion Raiders a 16 seed, but if it does, he agrees they’ll likely be in the First Four.
