I just switched over from C-SPAN to CBS to watch the first game of the tourney, and I swear this was the first line of audio after the broadcast started, courtesy of Ian Eagle:
“Welcome everyone, to Tampa, Florida, for the second-round matchup of Temple and Clemson.”
They’re really going to go with it. Just kill me. I predict the 2012 tourney does not feature this nomenclature nonsense.
You nailed the reason for why this will die — office pools need a few days for Bertha from accounting to print out her brackets, fill it in based on where her nephews go to school, and hand in her form. No pool takes Tuesday/Wednesday games into account, and thus neither will any human. Just imagine if the NCAA were to re-seed after each round, like the NFL playoffs. That would destroy brackets, and with it, a huge chunk of the interest in the tournament.