The Weather Channel out bids TBS for Selection Sunday and offers 57 minutes of Climate Change analysis during their 60 minute program. Oklahoma loses all of its conference games and is given a #3 seed in the midwest because of "their overall body of work" by a 4OT win a home against the Mexico U12 team during the exhibition season. M$U, under new head coach Rick Pitino is Dick Vitale's favorite to win it all, even though M$U is on a one year ban from participating in the NCAA tournament because of an on-going FBI investigation after the FBI selected Tom Izzo as "Special Prosecutor" to the Special Prosecutor to look into the "play for pay" allegations at Cleveland State.