So we didn't complete the bracket in its entirety, but time and flights out of Indy have dictated that we have to wrap up. Rick Nixon just fired his first question:

How did a No. 1 team end up potentially playing a lower seed on its home court?

The room froze. Coale looked perturbed (it falls to her as chairwoman to answer the questions on Seleciton Monday) and the rest of the committee looked like they didn't envy her one bit. With some prodding from the NCAA staff, they tried to escape answering the question -- the complexity of the answer was utterly daunting -- and finally, reluctantly worked out an answer with a combination of pointed fact and platitude.

The questions aren't getting easier, but the committee's finding its rhythm. They're beginning to illuminate the process a bit for the mock media, learning how to back up their decisions with RPI, records, and other data they looked at, but they're also learning that some of these decisions become so convoluted in the process that you can't blame a committee member for stuttering through it. Take that, you can almost hear the real committee members thinking, for all the times they've been approached by an angry fan, coach or player.