Palm: Selection Committee gave surprisingly low seeds for Mtn West Teams

By Jerry Palm, CBS Sports: For those of you who think metrics mean a lot in the selection process, the Lobos were 22nd in the NET (before and after the Mountain West title game) and were also top 25 in KenPom and KPI. They would have set the record for the highest-rated team left out in the NET era and fallen one spot short of Missouri State’s record in the RPI era. The Bears were 21st in the RPI in 2006 and left out of the field.

That was part of a pattern of surprisingly low seeds for teams in the Mountain West. San Diego State was a No. 5 seed, which was no surprise, but no other team was seeded higher than Utah State as a No. 8 seed. Boise State and Colorado State are in the First Four as No. 10 seeds. Nevada is also a No. 10 seed.

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