ESPN guys are really going off on the tourney committee because they left out Colorado and Alabama/Virginia Tech and instead included VCU and UAB, two teams that beat nobody and no bracket gurus even considered bubble teams. I agree with them, it's a total joke.
Not positive on this one but wasn't the reasoning for expanding the number of teams in the tourney was so that more teams from lesser conferences got in? I thought I remember them talking about that and a lot of people believed them...