mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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02-11-17 07:14 PM - Post#221415
In response to SRP
It's not silly.
If the NCAA wanted to award a championship to the best team, it wouldn't hold a single-elimination tournament with 68 teams. It would probably curate a Top 8 or Top 16 and have long series, much like the NBA does. The NCAA is prioritizing the mix of madness upsets with the law of large(r) numbers that guides us to a Final Four with (mostly) bluebloods. We call the winner of that tournament "champion" even though it's often not the team we would consider to be the best team in the country.
Frankly, I don't think conferences should be eligible to send their champion to the NCAA tournament without staging a conference tournament, because that's the whole premise of March. It's one big national single-elimination tournament, except for a small number of teams that can be eliminated in their conference tourney and be rescued by an at-large bid.
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