But I've seen the past! Yeahhhh! O'DOYLE RULES!!!
Great games yesterday. Didn't see any of Pacific-BC, which appears to have won game-of-the-day status, but GW-UNCW was ridiculously good. Seeing GW come all the way back from an 18-point deficit all in one bite (19-0 run) was insane. I felt bad for UNCW's point guard (hating on caucasian PGs appears to be the theme of the day) who carried the Seahawks late, but whose hurried penetration towards the end of OT resulted in a turnover. He should've known better.
Gonzaga-Xavier was also very good. But I have a major complaint: a quality, battle-tested program like Xavier should NEVER be seeded #14. Those spots are reserved for happy-to-be-here teams. Doesn't matter who Xavier played, who they lost to, what their RPI was or whatever. They're way too good to be a #14, and they proved it. When the A-10 was a real conference (three years ago people!!!) the Musketeers were a perennial NCAA team. The A-10 hasn't dropped THAT far down. You're telling me Air Force deserved a higher ranking than Xavier? Total travesty.
So I thought of an interesting solution to the whole "I got upset because the seeders mistook my opponent for a chump" problem. You seed only the top 32 teams, all the 1s through 8s... and have them select their own opponents, in seed order. Duke would pick the worst team in the field, UConn gets second-worst, and so forth. Wouldn't that be fascinating? You'd have at least a week's worth of talking-head/second-guesser material for ESPN. "I think Roy Williams made a mistake picking Hampton," and so forth. You may wonder whether this allows for hijinks and tomfoolery regarding the selection of teams, but I don't think so... in theory, there's no reason for a school to do anything other than act in its best interest and pick the easiest remaining opponent. It's not as if a #6 seed would pick a really hard team in order to take down everyone else in the bracket. The whole idea of the tournament is that YOU take down everyone else. Besides, if you get cute and pick a hard first-round game, and lose, you look like the #1 moron in America. Best of all, it would make for absolutely riveting television. The process would take a couple hours minimum, and we all know how people love drafts. I think this should happen.
Great games yesterday. Didn't see any of Pacific-BC, which appears to have won game-of-the-day status, but GW-UNCW was ridiculously good. Seeing GW come all the way back from an 18-point deficit all in one bite (19-0 run) was insane. I felt bad for UNCW's point guard (hating on caucasian PGs appears to be the theme of the day) who carried the Seahawks late, but whose hurried penetration towards the end of OT resulted in a turnover. He should've known better.
Gonzaga-Xavier was also very good. But I have a major complaint: a quality, battle-tested program like Xavier should NEVER be seeded #14. Those spots are reserved for happy-to-be-here teams. Doesn't matter who Xavier played, who they lost to, what their RPI was or whatever. They're way too good to be a #14, and they proved it. When the A-10 was a real conference (three years ago people!!!) the Musketeers were a perennial NCAA team. The A-10 hasn't dropped THAT far down. You're telling me Air Force deserved a higher ranking than Xavier? Total travesty.
So I thought of an interesting solution to the whole "I got upset because the seeders mistook my opponent for a chump" problem. You seed only the top 32 teams, all the 1s through 8s... and have them select their own opponents, in seed order. Duke would pick the worst team in the field, UConn gets second-worst, and so forth. Wouldn't that be fascinating? You'd have at least a week's worth of talking-head/second-guesser material for ESPN. "I think Roy Williams made a mistake picking Hampton," and so forth. You may wonder whether this allows for hijinks and tomfoolery regarding the selection of teams, but I don't think so... in theory, there's no reason for a school to do anything other than act in its best interest and pick the easiest remaining opponent. It's not as if a #6 seed would pick a really hard team in order to take down everyone else in the bracket. The whole idea of the tournament is that YOU take down everyone else. Besides, if you get cute and pick a hard first-round game, and lose, you look like the #1 moron in America. Best of all, it would make for absolutely riveting television. The process would take a couple hours minimum, and we all know how people love drafts. I think this should happen.
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