This is how wrong we were. We're not afraid to admit it. We tried to send a message when we put the likes of Georgia, Oklahoma State and Xavier in the field as at-large teams and left you out. It wasn't a plot. Cute sign from the cute kids in Mark's Madness, but it's a myth.
Conspiracy implies a group of people working together.
Trust me, this committee was lucky to agree on lunch. No, this slight was unfiltered stupidity on a scale unmatched since the last Adam Sandler movie. Not that we didn't have perfectly valid reasons for our original selections. Georgia was hotter than Alaska asphalt. The Bulldogs won three of their last 10 and even took LSU to the wire in the first round of the SEC Tournament.