A Couple Interviews with the Chair of the NCAA Selection Committee

Tim Pavlechko chairs the selection committee for the NCAA lacrosse championship and I found a couple interviews with him since the selections came out. Here is a print interview with the Baltimore Sun talking primarily about the selection of Brown over Loyola:

The clincher was that the Bears had wins against two tournament teams in Cornell and Massachusetts, while Loyola did not.

"Loyola played a very strong schedule. They had a great year," Pavlechko said. "But they had some losses. They lost to a common opponent – UMass – with Brown. There are some of those other quality wins as you mentioned. There was a quality win [against Cornell] that wasn’t on Loyola’s resume. I’m not saying that’s the ultimate thing. It was the total breadth of work, scope of the season, and all the selection tools of trying to differentiate teams for that last slot."

Here is a podcast interview with Jon Brand of Inside Lacrosse.