ESPN analyst Jay Bilas thinks the NCAA selection committee did a decent job overall seeding this year’s tournament, though there is one matchup he would rather not see in the opening round.

Bilas tells PodcastOne Sports Now co-hosts Jim Litke and Tim Dahlberg that matching Rick Pitino’s son — who coaches Minnesota — against his father’s former team is not a story line that the tournament needs. Bilas called the Minnesota-Louisville first-round matchup unnecessary and said it would draw attention to off-court issues when the focus should be on basketball itself at this time of the year.

“There is nothing entertaining about this Minnesota-Louisville thing,” Bilas said on an ESPN show. “It’s just wrong.”

The dark cloud over Thursday’s first-round game in Des Moines is how Rick Pitino is currently suing Louisville after he was fired in October 2017 amid connections to a bribery recruiting scandal.

“It’s just hanging over there,” Bilas added. “And it’s not like we don’t have enough problems in college sports that the tournament gets us away from for a little while. … We’ve got all these issues and all everybody wants to talk about is integrity when nobody is showing any.”

Seth Greenberg, a former coach who now broadcasts for ESPN, added, “It’s unhealthy for Louisville, and then moving forward it’s unhealthy for Richard Pitino. It’s unhealthy for those players that are now thrown into this fishbowl in this moment in time when they should be enjoying this experience and getting themselves ready to play.”

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Bilas also questioned putting Michigan State in the same East region as Duke, but said that the committee did better in picking tournament capable teams this year than in the past.

“There were mistakes this year but they weren’t as bad as some of the mistakes we found in the past,” Bilas said.