Two MAJOR NCAA Tourament snafus, and thoughts on a snub and two problems...

Couple of quickies as the tournament starts up...

• Yale and Syracuse both in -- meaning conduct does not matter...
• ... unless you are a mid-major, just ask Monmouth -- whose bench antics might well have made them the #1 snub.  The Committee head said things about 3 sub-200 RPI losses and all such, but you play who's put in front of you.  I can't think, though, that the antics of Monmouth's bench didn't weigh on the Committee.

And then two major snafus.

• The first, noted from Brian Tuohy:

Seriously? CBS has the NCAA's anti-gambling ad on its bracket pool page while it lists each games' betting lines. pic.twitter.com/o25kZE1AE1

— Brian Tuohy (@TheFixIsInTuohy) March 14, 2016

Nice disingenuousness, NCAA...

• Of course, that might not compare with the biggest snafu in years:

CBS Sports, for as long as I can remember (this was the case even when I used to run the high school pool for our basketball coach (no one made any money, all entry fees ($1 a pop) went to the winner, winner take all) in the mid 1980s), exclusively releases the first look at the NCAA brackets (which is how they can go to different bubble schools and get reactions from the teams when they find out in or out.

This year, CBS' show, as usual, was at 5:30 Eastern, 2:30 Pacific.

Well, someone blew the whole thing up:

Here's the entire NCAA Tournament Bracket pic.twitter.com/Gs17JGlYdX

— Eric Rosenthal (@ericsports) March 13, 2016

Note the time.  3:18 Pacific.

The way people are acting, it sounds as if (I did not see the show.) that the entire bracket had not been released as of that point and time.

Boy, that would leave CBS with some egg on face.