Friday, March 28, 2008

Is THIS what you wanted?

For everyone constantly screaming, "WE WANT A COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF!" let me ask you, is THIS what you wanted? Really?

I am watching the NCAA tourney and while some of last night's games were entertaining, others were boring. UNC crushed Wazzou and now they face Louisville. L'ville beat Tennessee so maybe Tennessee wasn't as good as we all thought during the year. Xavier beat West Va on the other side of the bracket and good, but Duke wasn't involved, a team that had been top ten ALL YEAR. Finally UCLA took down WESTERN KENTUCKY. Really? Upsets are what people LOVE about this thing, but I would prefer to see good basketball.

I know some will say "But they played and didn't earn their spot in the Elite 8" REALLY? What were those 35 games the teams played during the regular season? WHAT WERE THOSE? Georgetown was a great team, only to run into a hot shooting guard that looks 12 and now Davidson will play Wisconsin and deprive America of seeing Georgetown potentially play Kansas. Kansas though has to get by 12 seed Villanova. Yeah, 12 seed. That means there were at least 44 teams entering this tournament that the experts thought were better than Nova. But because they upset Klimpsen and Sienna Miller upset Vandy, magically Nova is one of the 16 best teams in the country? Doubt it. Put them on the court with Duke, I bet they lose. Have them face UCONN, they lose. PITT? Same result.

Now we have Louisville/UNC and UCLA/Xavier and while those are 1/3 matchups for the right to go to the Final Four, it isn't 1/2. Enh, what are you going to do? Tonight we see if Memphis can beat Michigan State, Stanford and their girl twins take on Texas, and then KU/Nova (1/12) and 3/10 in Wisco/Davidson. All four #1s are still alive at this time, which means we could potentially get all 4 #1s in the final four for the first time ever, but there is a lot of basketball left to play.

It is no lock that the #1s will make it. Which is why this tourney stinks. What the heck is the regular season for?

You can knock the BCS all you want and while this is exciting these three weeks, it is only crowning the champion of the last three weeks. Give this tourney the BCS tweak and you would get UNC v UCLA, which you may very well get, but why risk it?

Go ahead and give me that matchup RIGHT NOW. While I get to watch good basketball for the next few days (assuming the good teams win tonight) I want FOR SURE the best matchup of the year for the title.
BCS!

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