And Another Thing
While we're at it, let's talk about the single most unfair thing about the NCAA tournament and that's the ridiculous first round or as people who have brains call it, the play-in game.
Why on Earth (no matter the RPI) should Hampton have to play its way into the tourney? Would they have gotten beaten? Absolutely. Did they EARN the right to be there? They won their conference tourney so the answer is YES. The committee has their last four in or whatever. Pick two of those teams. This year, just throwing names out there, how about Air Force and Seton Hall. Both marginal (at best) picks. Make them play each other and the winner gets Duke or the number one overall seed. That's much more fair (neither one of these teams was a conference champ) and it also makes people care more about the play-in game since they at least have heard of the schools. I think everyone wins. Who's with me???
posted by Me @ 12:55 AM
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I completely agree with this. People discussed this on Chris Chase's website last week, and I agree. If you win your conference tournament, then you shouldn't have to be in the play-in game. The last two at-large teams should play it. They don't even have to play a 1 seed in the tournament. You could set it up so they play a 5 or 6 seed, but it is unfair that 1 conference champ doesn't get to play on Thursday or Friday.
Agree w above. Play in game is wrong.
Also I think World Cup draws should not be solved by penalty kicks. I propose the teams start overtime with ten on ten and every five minutes the # of players goes down (9 on 9, then 8 on 8) until somebody scores. We don't end basketball games with a free throw contest
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