This is a desperate plea to the NCAA Selection Committee! Please pick the best 34 college basketball teams, not the best 34 technocrat resumes. There is a quartet of Big Ten teams that are just ugly and they are an embarrassment to the game (to a certain extend) because of their slugfest style of play. Do not reward them for a mediocre resume and put them in the NCAA. Their RPI/SOS numbers are inflated because they beat up on each other in-conference. Do not reward them for making the game of basketball an ugly football-like slugfest. Do not reward them! Send the following four teams to the NIT/CBI instead:
1) Northwestern
2) Penn State (because 39-33 should never be a final score!)
3) Wisconsin (too much hype, too many wins in Madison, a team with a built-in ceiling)
4) Minnesota
Big Ten teams that do deserve serious consideration and likely a bid are Ohio State and Michigan. Michigan has scalps none of the other Big Ten "football teams" have: Duke and UCLA. Ohio State plays good basketball when they are allowed to play it (eg when not facing most of the other Big Ten teams).
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Please don't reward those ugly Big10 teams with an NCAA bid
Posted by ncaahoops at 12:46 PM
Labels: NCAA Tourney
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