Thursday, April 22, 2010

NCAA Staggers To the Abyss, Falls Backward

In the midst of the NFL Draft, NHL Playoffs, NBA playoffs, and early season baseball (and a new episode of The Mentalist on CBS!) the NCAA made an announcement that just lead to sighs of relief to everyone who love college basketball.

The NCAA is expanding--but only from 65 to 68 teams.  Details have yet to be announced, but I imagine it will be something like the bottom eight teams playing each other for the right to be the 4 #16 seeds.

I still have issues with it, especially since it is so obviously designed to add another 4 middling Big Conference teams into the 64 team tournament.  Teams that won't get blown out on Day 1, admittedly, but still have no real chance to win the whole thing.  No longer will our March discussions be about whether the #5 team in the ACC should go the Dance, but whether the #6 should.  EXCITING!

But still--better than the clusterfuck that the NCAA originally put out there.  We can all breathe a sigh of relief.  Our work pools are safe!

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