re: NCAA Tourney is flawed.

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Why? Serious question. And cut it out with the "honesty" nonsense. There's nothing dishonest about what they do.

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Why?

When any playoffs start do a group of men sit in a room and hand pick match-ups based on who teams struggled against? Say a team earned a 3 seed with 4 potential 6 seed match-ups, it would be dishonest and manipulating if a group of men decided which 6 seed played the 3 seed based off of the types of teams the 3 seed struggled against during the season. The NCAA committee shouldn't be looking at how a team handles a tough rebounding or how a team handles a small quick style ect when seeding, that is way too hands on.

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adapt, improvise, win, survive, advance.


If Mizzou good do any of that you wouldn't be making this thread and holding onto it like it has any validity at all as if was the last piece of cornbread in Ethopia.

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Zou-session at maximum limits. This is in now way about Mizzou, and none of my concerns brought up in the thread reflect anything to do with Mizzou. It's a broad big picture issue.. I realize in troll-land it's hard to understand that someone is thinking of the 'whole' instead of just their individual school.

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They are honest about being dishonest, and the guy asks how is that dishonest. Gump gonna Gump I guess.

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I won't generalize your stupidity to your entire fanbase, but your posts in this thread have been mind-blowingly idiotic. The NCAA Tourney Committee says "We make matchups that will cause the NCAA tournament to be more interesting with closer games," then they make matchups that cause the NCAA tournament to be more interesting with closer games. You call this refreshing honesty "dishonest." I can only assume that you do understand the definition of words. If they claimed to NOT do this, would you call that "honest"?

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They inject manipulation into a process that should be simple seeding.

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Describe to me how ranking all the teams in the tournament is, in any way, simple.

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They review who teams struggled against and try to match them up with similar teams.

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Seems logical if they have two goals (goals are in no particular order):

1. They want close games that keep people interested and that increase the popularity of the tournament.

2. They want the best, most well-rounded teams to advance.

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My opinion is that they should just let the chips fall without consciously setting up certain match-ups.

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That's nice. Just because the NCAA Tourney Committee doesn't agree with your opinion doesn't mean they are dishonest. In fact, the evidence you've given proves that they are scrupulously honest.

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NCAA Tourney is flawed.

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You think?

Well, let's try to be objective here, mograyback.

while you complain that a team faced a lower seed who displays proficiency in an area that gives the higher seed problems, that still is a lower seed. As in, it may be a strong rebounding team (relatively speaking), but for whatever reason it still isn't thought of as favorably as the higher seeded team. The higher seed should still have factors that enable it to advance; perhaps stronger guard-play, perhaps a deeper bench, perhaps it's just considered to be more talented.

You don't really want all the running teams in one bracket, all the physical teams in another, etc-- do you? Because then it isn't very entertaining, and very few upsets would happen.

And then, when you get to the Final Four, all you get is a clash of styles. You don't know if team A is a top 4, or a top 20 team, they just happened to be the best at banging around under the rim. They might lose by 40 to the best running team; might have lost by 30 to the next best running team, etc. Might not make the 2nd weekend in a balanced bracket.

There will always be issues with everything. Doesn't matter how hard you try.

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but it's pretty bogus that Kansas just played a home game against UNC in an environment that should be neutral.

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Bad example. This is first time that I can remember Duke and UNC not having home games in NC. I thought it was in the NCAA rules to have a site in NC every year for Duke and UNC to play in. For all that it would of been fair for UNC to play KU in Lawrence

Is the tourney flawed? of course it is....basketball is very prone to upsets, that's why the NBA plays a series of games for every round...

Sorry, but I'd say Georgetown beats FGCU in a best of 7 series...