The SEC thumb on scale now extends ruining March Madness, which once was the purest tournament in college sports.

Fourteen teams from the SEC, five with losing records in the conference made the tournament, including Texas at 6-12. Six and twelve!

That should be an air horn in a library for the media. Six and twelve. But instead of crying foul, we get

fawning over the SEC.

Ten years ago the tourney had 34 mid majors (or teams that aren’t in Power 4 in football). This year, 29. Guess who got the other five berths? SEC teams underwater in their own conference.

The experts will say the "metrics" support it regardless of abysmal conference performance. I call BS. Actually BCS. Remember what "metrics" got us in the BCS era?

The vaunted metrics in football and now basketball both now seem to tilt things in favor of the SEC.

Maybe sportswriters should quit accepting this claptrap and investigate how this once wonderful tournament has been perverted.