It's NCAA tournament time so get your brackets ready. March is a month of beauty for NCAA basketball, when they show their football counterparts how to choose a true champion.
First of all, who wants to see a battle between the calculated two best teams in the country when you could see a finale between any two of the 65 teams voted on subjectively by a committee?
I can't wait for that Bucknell/Drake championship.
Who wants to argue about 10 BCS teams when you can argue about 65 tournament teams? Of course the fourth place team in the ACC deserves a shot at the title! My god, at least they weren't fifth.
Who wants to see a match-up between equally talented teams when I can see Kansas beat down American University repeatedly with an infield rake? Oh how I love those 120-67 games that help us determine a true champion.
Why would you want a regular season that means anything when you could just have half the teams enter a big free-for-all at the end of the year to determine a champion?
I propose a 256 team championship tournament. Maybe we could bring in the NIT teams, Division II, Division III, Canada, Europe, High Schools and the Globetrotters for one big battle royal!
Your office bracket would take up the entire white board, it would be epic.
I love the idea of a team like Wofford coming into the tournament at 14-16 after winning their conference tournament, shooting 75% from 3-point land for six games and being crowned the best team in the nation. If you can't have a champion who just happens to be the hottest mediocre team at the time, you're system is as flawed as Eliot Spitzer's marriage (too soon?).
In case you're wondering, I'm being a bit facetious. I do like the NCAA Basketball tournament. I just think no system is without its flaws.
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7 months ago
Who would want to see the 2004 13-0 Auburn Tigers football team get a shot at a national championship? The BCS certainly wouldn't.
7 months ago
HAHAHA...Nice article!
Don't be looking past Drake though!
7 months ago
The best thing about the tournament is not the championship. I cannot even remember who won last year (wait Florida) or two years ago (maybe Florida?!?!?). But I can tell you that when I was 13 I won 120 dollars in my dad's office pool. Then again when I was a sophmore in college I won 300 dollars in a bracket (THANK YOU MELO). I can tell you that the brackets that I did w/ my friends for the last 2 years was won by a cheat!! (NO, I CANNOT PROVE IT, BUT HE DID SOMEHOW) The tournament is the best time of the year because of the brackets, not the champion!!
from 7 months ago
While I agree with you that the gambling on this stuff is fun, the ultimate goal isn't for you or me to win our office pools. It is to use the best method to find the best champion. The major argument against the BCS is that College Basketball has a much better system, but in College Basketball's system, how often do you actually get the 2 best teams from start to finish playing each other?
from 7 months ago
Mike, that's the point of the college basketball postseason system. You don't know who the two best teams are until they play it out on the court.
7 months ago
American University has a damn good team this year.
It isn't going to get blown out by 60 by anyone.
Maryland may not have had the greatest year ever, but they were still a solid ACC team and American knocked the Terps off at home.
Just sayin'.
I'm not entirely sure what the point of your article is other than to criticize the tournament for giving the small schools a shot at glory.
This is what college sports should be all about.
from 7 months ago
Anonymous,
The point of the article is just a "be careful what you wish for" message. Sure, the tournament is great, but maybe the BCS isn't as bad as we think it is. I like giving the small schools a chance, but even a school like George Mason can only hang on for so long against the big boys.
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