Explaining NCAA Tournament seeding logic

Name: Explaining NCAA Tournament seeding logic
Uploaded: 2026-03-13T12:50:27Z
Duration: 1 min 18 s
Description: Mike Katic questions why major conference teams like Indiana are never assigned low seeds in the NCAA Tournament, such as a 16th seed. Dana explains that seeding is heavily influenced by strength of schedule and automatic bids, which often favor teams from larger conferences over smaller ones with less challenging opponents.

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Mike Katic questions why major conference teams like Indiana are never assigned low seeds in the NCAA Tournament, such as a 16th seed. Dana explains that seeding is heavily influenced by strength of schedule and automatic bids, which often favor teams from larger conferences over smaller ones with less challenging opponents.