Mike Slive Team Quotations

The fascinating thing about the committee is that in the final analysis, you have to exercise your own subjective judgment. It's so easy to just latch onto numbers. You could have watched a team play whose numbers really don't truly illustrate how good it is.

I just think a lot of good basketball is being played throughout the country. Without getting into specific teams or specific conferences, you see it and you do your best to monitor it, and in terms of selections it makes for a difficult challenge ahead of us.

I think one of the things that we need to be doing over the next several months is explaining the double-hosting model, which is in effect the national championship game rotating through the four bowls. I think there might be some confusion as to how the teams get to the (title) game.

What's happened in our league is what I think a lot of us anticipated. Young league teams have gotten better as the season has moved forward. As a result, we're much deeper and more competitive than people maybe thought we were a couple of months ago.

I can't think that far ahead. Just having two of our teams at the Final Four is quite an accomplishment in itself.