Judging the Committee
- Drexel did just about everything that could be asked of them. They played an insane 17 road games, three of which came against tournament teams (they went 2-1). Ever since their back-to-back victories over Villanova and Syracuse I penciled them in for a first round win. When the bracket was handed down I didn't ask if Drexel had made it, I asked who they drew.
- Florida State won a lot of big games but they struggled when Toney Douglas was innactive. With this resume the positives seem to outweigh the negatives. Throw in the fact that Al Thornton is one of the most dominant players in the nation and the snub becomes apparent.
Stanford.
In a year that featured over a hundred 20-win teams Stanford amassed a meager record of 18-12. Combine their RPI ranking of 67 with their 4-7 record down the stretch and it should be clear where the Trees belong.Sadly the snubs are just the beginning of the problem. Just a year after George Mason's glorious run through their bracket the committee has taken a decidedly anti-mid major stance. Although the committee only reduced the number of such teams by a count of two the deck seems to be stacked against them. Take for example the unfortunate 5/12 matchup between Butler and Old Dominion or the 7/10 game featuring Nevada and Creighton. We want to see these guys take down a power conference, as opposed to the committee who would prefer to watch them destroy one another.
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No you did not just accidentally come to Kissing Suzy Kolber by mistake, and yes you are reading that post name correctly. The one and only Unsilent Majority is moonlighting on his Kissing Suzy fiefdom to provide No Mas with some much-needed college basketball expertise during March Madness. His Unsilentness will be bringing the pain right here throughout the tourney, so, you know what they say people - get it while it's very hot - Large
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Good point about the mid-majors battling each other. How can that be right? Is it me or does this year's tourney have some sort of weird vibe surrounding it?
I'm in the school library by myself getting my basketball fix.
smiling....
Thanks
I really don't see how Stanford or Arkansas have a better claim than Drexel, Syracuse, or Fl. State.
The committee definitely dropped the ball with the mid majors matched up against one another. 'Cuse, Drexel and Kansas State got hosed and probably should be in the tourney. Also, Duke is rated too high at 6.
The question is how do you improve the tourney? I say that the 31 automatic bids go to the conference champs instead of the tournament winners. This way you ensure that the best team from each league gets in, not the team who got hot and reeled off 3 wins in a row at the end of the season. If teams are on the bubble and need to make a case for the other 34 spots they need to at least get to the final of their conference tourneys. You can compare it to the system in champions league football (soccer), the spots go to the top finishers in the League, not the League Cup.
Ironically if this were the system that they used the three teams that I just argued for probably still wouldn't get in (sorry Drexel, but 4th place in the Colonial just isn't getting it done). But in that case there would be no discrepancies, it would be clearer whose in and whose out.
UM, Large or I-Berg:
we need to set up a no mas bracket pool for bragging rights amongst the scorecard regulars.
props for the fermat's last theorem reference... now it's just a matter of time before Schrödinger's cat gets a mention on no mas... actually, you know, it could explain the mid major pairings, i.e. will we ever know how good mid majors are if they get bounced in the first round? our examination interferes with the results.
I would love to do a No Mas Bracket showdown, but I am swamped right now with all types of bullshit and just will not be able to oversee. Anybody out there who wants to take the reins, I give you full license. Write me - [email protected].
No Masians...I have created a group on Yahoo for all of us to come together and bask in the madness that is march so please join while supplies last:
Just click on the link below and then go to join a group and plug in the ID and Password below.
tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men
Group ID#: 64965
Password: ewing
good luck!
the only thing i know about college basketball is that Christian Laettner
sold his soul to the devil to be that good.
Christian Laettner was the luckiest guy ever.
How awesome it must've been to play with the greatest athletes in your sport at 22.
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