That’s one thing that gets talked about a lot but not in the grand scheme of things. How teams progress in the tournament are affected by player matchups, defensive and offensive scheme matchups, does a team that is a bad matchup get knocked out by a different team? However, what officials show up or how they officiate has a big impact on the tournament results. Not only does the committee go out of their way to put IU and Kensucky in the same bracket, but how much do they put into which officials do which games??