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SE: 64 Teams Are Searching for One Shining Moment – Meet the K-Stater Who Picked Them

About a year ago, K-State Deputy Athletic Director Jill Shields touched down in Indianapolis and headed straight to the hotel where the NCAA Women's Basketball Committee would select the 64 teams for the 2020 tournament. 
 
She took an elevator up to the conference room, walked in and saw the chair of the selection committee shaking her head. 
 
"They canceled it didn't they?" Shields asked.
 
"Yep."
 
"She said, 'You can go in and someone will help you book your flight home,'" Shields remembers. 
 
That's how her first season as a member of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament selection committee came to an end.