NCAA's selection committee ready to do dirty work

NCAA selection committee chairman Gene Smith is ready to get to work.

After months of traveling, meetings and tracking games, Smith and the other nine committee members will select the first 68-team field in NCAA tournament history this weekend.

Initial votes on the 37 at-large teams are expected Wednesday afternoon. The work now includes picking eight teams to play in opening-round games at Dayton next week.

Smith also finds himself at the center of a scandal at Ohio State where he is the athletic director. He declined to take questions about the controversy Wednesday while acknowledging two other committee members are dealing with "significant" personal issues.