A Mole on the Committee

Does Joe Lunardi, ESPN’s “bracketologist,” have a mole inside the NCAA selection committee?

 

Lunardi is being touted for correctly naming all 34 at-large teams in this year’s tournament. Interestingly, however, Lunardi had Villanova missing the tournament in his second to last bracket prediction Saturday night. But then, on Sunday afternoon, Lunardi’s last bracket before the tournament was announced included Villanova.

 

So what changed in the interim? Villanova certainly didn’t win any more games.  And 17-16 Georgia’s shocking run to the SEC championship certainly didn’t help by squeezing out another at large slot. The obvious conclusion is that Lunardi was privy to inside information about the bubble teams and which were the very last to make the tournament.