CLANG!
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Having a #11 or #14 make the Sweet 16 makes a compelling story, and gets the nation excited. However, when it comes to the finals, CBS and the NCAA want the traditional powers who have dominated college basketball that season playing. Butler, VCU, or Connecticut in the Finals is nice, but it's better to have a Duke or Kansas opposing them.
the "elites" weren't exactly too elite either, otherwise they wouldn't have lost to vcu and butler and uconn.<div>
</div><div>butler gave duke everything they could handle last year. this was just a freakishly bad shooting night for butler and a really really bad shooting night for uconn. yes uconn outclassed butler inside, but i can't even count the number of lay-ups butler had spin off the rim or rattle out. that's not even getting to the 3 pointers butler had rattling out. butler could play the lakers tonight and have a better shooting night than they did against uconn last night. they couldn't shoot that bad again if they tried. </div>
</div><div>butler gave duke everything they could handle last year. this was just a freakishly bad shooting night for butler and a really really bad shooting night for uconn. yes uconn outclassed butler inside, but i can't even count the number of lay-ups butler had spin off the rim or rattle out. that's not even getting to the 3 pointers butler had rattling out. butler could play the lakers tonight and have a better shooting night than they did against uconn last night. they couldn't shoot that bad again if they tried. </div>
The fact is, neither one of those teams had a season worthy of competing for a national championship. When you give over 60 teams a shot at a national title every year, eventually **** like this is going to happen. Give me the top 32 teams and give me a double elimination tournament.
two teams shockingly beat everyone they play in the tourney. The national championship game isn't a thriller. And we're ready to scrap the whole thing?
A team with one of the 5 best college players right now, a lot of really good talent around him, and one of the best coaches in the game just won the championship. How is that wrong?
A team with one of the 5 best college players right now, a lot of really good talent around him, and one of the best coaches in the game just won the championship. How is that wrong?
Let that sink in, they only made 3 buckets from inside the 3 point line, that is just crazy. If any other team shoots that bad the Huskies win by 30. Butler's defense kept them in the game, but like football, defensive basketball is not to exciting to watch...
Have the 64-team (rounded) tournament but leave out the two best schools. The scrappy, undermanned teams from the middle of nowhere still get to fight it out against the probably corrupt schools you've actually heard of for the officially sanctioned NCAA title. Then, when that feel-good charade is over, match up the predetermined best two schools (this year: Pitt vs. Ohio State) at a neutral site (either NY or LA) on April 1st. and let them play for the "real" championship which has nothing to do with the NCAA itself. After enough time, it will become a "tradition" that people will defend like their lives depend on it.
Who's with me?
Who's with me?
the shitfest that was on tv last night. I'd rather see a replay of UConn - Stanford in women's ball before that game last night.