ESPN College Hoops Analysts Pass The Tool Test, Fail Eye Test

. Which would be fine if they didn’t keep screwing it up.

The bobbleheads mention the Eye Test and then they start talking about a team’s numbers and resume. They talk about the overall record, conference record, RPI, strength of schedule and their record against the RPI Top 25 or Top 50. And they line all of those numbers up in a cute little graphic that makes the numbers look like they are actually on an eye chart.

Now, all of those tools are excellent indicators of a team’s tournament worthiness and they are worth discussion on a national forum. However, they are numbers. They are records and numbers that represent the data, on paper, that the selection committee uses to determine which teams make the NCAA Tournament. And that is THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE EYE TEST!

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