LOS ANGELES — Selection Sunday is a sports fan's television bonanza as the nation's college basketball teams learn who's in, who's not and who goes where for March Madness.

Well, unless you live on the West Coast and know that there is no mystery involved this year. Our teams are so bad that either they will get an automatic bid by winning their conference tournaments or they will hear what so many "Project Runway" contestants dread to hear from judge Heidi Klum — "You ... are ... out!"

The selection show will be shown live on CBS at 6 p.m. and is hosted by Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony and Seth Davis. Dan Guerrero, UCLA's athletic director and the head of this year's NCAA men's selection committee, will be interviewed about the process, and it is usually worth watching the person in charge of the committee defending a last-in, first-out type of pick.

This year, Guerrero might be the perfect person for this job. There will be nobody second-guessing whether he pulled strings to get the Bruins into the NCAA tournament because UCLA's season is no-strings attached — either win the Pacific 10 Conference tournament or nothing.

Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg will be offering analysis via satellite (they'll also be calling the Big Ten Conference championship game).

As soon as the brackets are announced live, the ESPN basketball crew will be on the case.

The most entertaining part of what ESPN is billing as 89 consecutive hours of college basketball discussions (beginning well before the live selection show when we're all still guessing) should be analyst Andy Katz's attempt to interview the head coaches of the 65 teams who make the field. Last year he got 63 head coaches and one assistant.