I’ve barely followed college basketball this year, but I noticed this in the Post:

[The George Washington University Colonials], the team that ended the regular season with the nation’s best record and longest winning streak, that spent the entire season in the top 25 and the entire month of February in the top 10, received the eighth seed in the Atlanta region, with a first-round game Thursday against UNC Wilmington in Greensboro, N.C. Should the 26-2 Colonials win, they would almost certainly play top-seeded Duke at a site about an hour from the Blue Devils’ campus…

“Very, very much disappointed,” said Athletic Director Jack Kvancz, a former member of the NCAA tournament selection committee who had predicted the Colonials would receive a No. 6 or 7 seed shortly before the selection show began. “We’ll play; we’re happy to be in the tournament. However, we have the best record in college basketball, and they put us in North Carolina against two North Carolina teams, including the number one seed overall? That’s who we deserve to play?”

I know the Atlantic 10 ain’t the Big East or ACC, but it ain’t nothing, either.

Cam says: I missed the selection show because I was watching the USA/Japan baseball game (heckuva game, btw… but I didn’t realize it was a requirement to have a mullet to play baseball in Japan). I agree that an 8th seed for G-Dub is lower than what they deserve. The only reason I can think of is that Pops Mensah-Bonsu may or may not be the healthy player he was during the regular season.

GW’s one of the teams I’ll be rooting for, since my Oklahoma State Cowboys didn’t make the field this year.