The NCAA said they expanded the tournament 68 teams, which they did, sort of. When I first heard this I didn't think much of it except that four other teams now have a chance in the tournament, but they actually don't. The four extra games are actually "play in" games, not tournament games. Until this year there were technically 63 teams picked for the tournament with one play in game by two teams looking to be the No.16 seed in a bracket to end up playing someone like Duke or Kansas to be sent home afterwards. There was actually some thrill and excitement to there being a one game play off or I should say play in between two teams still on the bubble trying to get to the dance.
Now they have 8 teams playing for the same thing. Except, who cares. Now you have 4 games for four different seeds which most of these teams probably don't deserve. There were teams that were thought more deserving to be voted in aka Colorado, St Marys, Harvard that weren't even given a chance. Somehow, teams like Texas-San Antonio & Arkansas-Little Rock get the "chance" to play in but aren't actually in the tournament. If they want to say they expanded the tournament, make it 72 teams and add one more game to each bracket to make it 18 seeds and actually let them IN the tornament. Enough with the play in games or drop it back to only one.
Tomorrow....My Picks for the Final Four....stay tuned....
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