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How do we know 10 days before Selection Sunday the NCAA and Google determine that not enough national brands are going to make the tournament to sell tickets, TV ads, AdWords, and licensed merchandising, and subsequently flip the switch to add "bonus points" to specific schools to bump up their resume's in the final week to the detriment of smaller schools with smaller followings like MTSU or Bucknell?
The basketball conscience would have no way of auditing such a thing, nevermind knowing it was going on (which is even worse).
Every week the "algorithm" and "machine learning" could change for reasons nobody can explain, to kick out results nobody can substantiate. How hard would be it be in the thousands of lines of code to add a back-door "kicker" to specific teams you want to see always in the tournament with protected seeds like Kentucky or Duke? You'd never find the code. It would be like Office Space and rounding fractions of a penny into another bank account. Unless you're looking for it and know what you're looking for -- nevermind having a reason to look in the first place -- you'd be hostage to your own ignorance.
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