Saturday, March 19, 2011
NCAA Tourney Upsets 12 over 5? Try 11 over 6...
For all of us that were racking our brains to figure out which 12 seed was going to upset a 5 seed in the Tournament may have another brain teaser in the future. Three of the four 6 seeds went down this weekend with Cincinnati being the only survivor. Xavier, Georgetown & St Johns all were beaten handily in the first round without any being a threat to win. Could it be that some of these teams aren't worth the seed they're given? I did notice 3 of the 4 were Big East teams. Even though the Big East is considered the biggest and toughest conference maybe letting 11 teams in was a bit much. Maybe they're being catered to way too much. St Johns pretty much proved they didn't belong in the 6 seed they were given and Georgetown could've taken the day off which it seemed they did anyway. Only one 5 seed Vanderbilt went down in a game that went down to the wire. I'm starting to think that maybe the NCAA committee needs to look at the seeding for who they vote in and not necessarily the teams. Of course, 8 or 9 teams from the Big East would be enough to represent the Big East instead of 11. Hats off to 11 seeds Marquette, Gonzaga & VCU. This years Tourney could get very interesting.
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