Not sure how much the ESPN selection show will get into that. They generally get more into the top5 seeds.
This is a huge blast at the non-con. It’s about the only explanation I can figure. I don’t think it could be made any clearer. As much as I’ve moaned about the non-con, I didn’t think they’d be penalized this badly.
It seems that the Big East got dissed overall. The selection committee seemed to treat the BE as being a very shallow, but wide conference. Hell, the Big 11 teams that got in, got more respect.