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03-20-17 09:47 PM - Post#227838    
    In response to bradley

  • bradley Said:
I would be very surprised if the tournament returns to the Palestra. If I sat on the IL Tournament committee, I would have been sweating bullets with 12 seconds left at the end of the Penn/Princeton. If Penn won that game and then beat Yale, there would have been a hail of criticism coming down on the IL Committee especially if Penn got hammered as the 16th seed -- Ken Pomeroy follow up commentary, Mike & Mike commentary, ESPN personalities, etc. The League probably would have been harshly criticized for selecting the Palestra as well as some "experts" taking shots at the format. The optics are just bad let alone the right and wrong as to the Palestra site selection. The criticism would have been muted if somehow Penn played competitively against a #1 seed.

Committee will probably go for a neutral site. Why take the risk again? That assumes that they are not living in a cocoon. But then again, they took a knowing or unknowing risk the first time.





Maybe you’re right. Or maybe you’re wrong. Upsets happen in conference tournaments every year and the world seems to go on just fine. Is there a reason why we shouldn't expect the same reaction here?

Also, had Penn pulled off the miracle, they would have gone to the First Four game. Just like Holy Cross last year.

And Holy Cross seemed to have fun.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/a rticle/20...



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