- Why don’t we just allow all 200+ schools into the tournament??? That way more schools who have had stellar seasons will get knocked out in the first or second rounds by less deserving teams, all because they had one bad game?
We could then save them the aggravation of playing a great regular season, only to get screwed because of one bad game.
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I do not care about the University of Southern Illinois and the stupid Salukis. They have ZERO shot at winning the tournament, so why should a better team like Georgia be knocked out? At least in hockey, you have to beat the other team 4 times to move on. Football is only 17 weeks. Now NCAA basketball starts, when is now, AUGUST???
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When I walked into the sports bar this weekend, there was 3 minutes left in a game. 20 minutes later . . THERE WERE 15 SECONDS LEFT. One minute later . . .3 SECONDS!!! Basketball is the only sport in which it is possible to slow down time. How can anyone stand this crap?
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Speaking of point #1, am I the only one that thinks it is retarded for teams to play their conference opponents all season, then everyone gets into the conference tournament anyway? Why IS there a regular season in college basketball?
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Oh, by the way, I guess there’s no chance that some OTHER sports might get some airtime too? Like hockey??? To me, watching the Flyers is slightly more interesting than Florida Atlantic taking on Carbon County Community College for the 64th spot in a pigtail.
In short, too many teams . . .too many upsets . . and too many timeouts and fouling at the end of the game.
Take your pools, and take your correspondence schools that somehow managed to win the North Dakota Athletic Conference to weasel into this mess, AND KEEP THEM!!!
NCAA MARCH MADNESS SUCKS!!!
*On a side note, is there really any need for the NIT??? This tournament is even dumber- schools playing to find out who is #66!!!
Of course it is a pain in the ass. However, you’ve got to allow the dedicated student athletes at our institutions of higher learning a little relaxation. After all, they spend all that time hitting the books and taking difficult exams the rest of the year.
When March Madness ends, baseball will begin. So, things will be better soon. 
Only thing it is to me is a pain is they have stopped showing my favorite soap. I’d much rather see if the kind folks in Oakdale have rescued the feme fatles from the mad aging Dr. than a bunch of craziness that only adds to the overabundance of useless sports on Network television.
Come on NCAA, isn’t this what cable is for? Come on Viacom, you own enough stations you can’t find the airspace among the all night infomercials and 2 hour NASCAR documentaries?
What’s the matter, Vinnie, did the Gonzaga and Cinci upsets screw up your bracket?
Now, Vinnie…
How else would we find out whether Ball State U. was still around?
Bite me. The first Thursday and Friday are the best two days of TV sports all year.
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Because then you’d be bitching that NONE of the teams had demonstrated any ability throughout a regular season, and obviously don’t deserve to be playing in a tournament of any sort. And if you’re the type of person who ONLY sees a season as a prelude to the tournament, then you’re missing the whole damn point of the sport. These seasons aren’t aggravating for the players. They play on these teams and devote all kinds of time to practice and schedules. Very often, their strict schedules preclude them from having the sorts of normal social lives most college students enjoy-drinking and partying with friends, working during school, etc.
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I DO care about Southern Illinois University and the Salukis. I’d say they have a much better shot at winning the tournament right now than, say, Georgia. It seems to me that Georgia obviously was NOT the better team when the two of them matched up, or we’d be seeing the Bulldogs take on UConn. And I’m sure you’ll want to bring up the “if they played them 100 times, Georgia would beat them 99”. Yeah, well, if that’s the case, then Georgia should’ve played like they would’ve played on nights 1-99, because SIU played like it was night 100.
And seriously, FOUR GAMES??? What the hell is so great about that? Jesus Christ, you end up playing a mini-season in the tournament!
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It’s called telvision time outs. And fouls. And strategy. And not giving up. Creighton dropped Florida after two overtimes on a shot that dropped with 2 tenths of a second left. What kind of athletes would they be if they just gave up because they only had ten seconds left? They don’t get three more tries. It’s always the last game for these guys.
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Yes. The conference tournaments give everyone another shot at winning the right to represent their conference in the NCAAs. For many of them, it’s the only time anyone outside of their school or local community would ever get to see them play. And they’ve worked hard for it, playing all season through slumps and smooth sailing. And most college teams STILL play less games against conference opponents than an NHL team will play against a divison opponent. Let’s take the Blues, for example. They play the Chicago Blackhawks SIX TIMES in the regular season-9/26/01, 12/12/01, 12/26/01, 1/25/02, 3/24/02, and 4/5/02. Six times, and they’re not even in the playoffs yet. Why is there a regular season in hockey if you’re going to end up playing 2/3rds as many games in the postseason?
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Spare me. The NCAAs take place over a total, a TOTAL, of 10 days. If your season is ruined by you missing games during those 10 nonconsecutive days, then just think of how rough the curling fans have it.
Um, no. Teams aren’t even allowed to start practice until mid-October. Hence the popularity of Midnight Madness practices at many schools. And most teams don’t play their first game (usually just an exhibition game, which nobody cares about) until early November. The whole season is no more than a few weeks longer than NCAA football.
Go Terps!!
Excuse me!?What is this noise? If I have to put up with
slow-ass football for SIX months oui of the year, you can DAMN well spare me my ten days of March Madness, even if my brackets are for shit.
oh yeah, Go Crusaders!
::seconds that::
Whaaaaat, I can’t show a little school spirit? 
I thought this rant was going to be like my rant about how much fun it is to be a male american who doesn’t give a fuck about any sports at all.