NCAA Tournament Time: Choosing a Real Champion

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.