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I. Select the 34 best at-large teams;

II. Seed the teams; and

III. Place the teams into the championship bracket.

General Principles for Selection, Seeding and Bracketing

The basketball committee will abide by the following principles:

At no point in the process shall a member vote for a team the individual represents as an athletics director or commissioner.

A member shall not be present during discussions regarding the selection or seeding of a team the individual represents as an athletics director or commissioner.

An athletics director shall not answer questions about the team the individual represents, except for factual questions (e.g., dates of injuries, status of injured players).

An athletics director is permitted to discuss other teams in the individual’s conference only when asked.

A commissioner is permitted to answer general questions (i.e. relative strengths of teams within a conference) about teams in the conference the individual represents.

When 24 or fewer teams remain in the pool of teams (during the selection and seeding processes), a member may not participate in “list X teams” votes if a team he or she represents as a commissioner or athletics director is included. An athletics director or commissioner may not participate in crosscountry votes (i.e., ballots where the members rank a selected number of teams) that involve a team the individual represents.

When 20 or more teams are under consideration in “list X teams” ballots, each member shall list eight.

When 14 to 19 teams are under consideration, each member shall list six. When 13 or fewer teams are under consideration, each member shall list four.

When 13 or fewer teams are under consideration, each member shall list four.

All votes will be by secret ballot.

Among the resources available to the committee are complete box scores, game summaries and notes, computer rankings, head-to-head results, chronological results, Division I results, non-conference results, home and away results, results in the last ten games, rankings, polls and the coaches’ regional advisory committee rankings.