How did George Mason get in and Hofstra was left out? How did Air Force get in and Cincinnati or Florida State get left out?
I definitely think Cincinnati and Michigan got robbed. Teams like Utah State, Air Force, and UAB who beat absolutely no one out of conference definitely shouldn't have gotten at large bids ahead of Cin and Mich. The only thing UAB had for them was an in conference home win over Memphis. And what about other one win wonders, like Florida St. and Texas A&M? Sure the wins over Duke and Texas respectively look nice on their resume, but they have got to go out and not only play quality teams out of conference, but beat them as well. At least teams like Memphis and Gonzaga, who play in weak conferences, go out and play good, quality non-conference opponents and they usually do well against them.
Link to the Sports Filter tournament pickem. Headgames Michigan did not deserve to be their. They had their chance to win against Indiana and a bad Minnesota team and choked. They also didn't help themselves by losing five of their last seven games. And that is coming from a die hard Michigan fan
The thing that is most scandalous to me is the seeding of UCLA (2nd seed, 7th/8th in the polls, #13 RPI ranking) in the West Regional over Gonzaga (3rd seed, 5th in the polls with one #1 vote this week, #10 RPI Ranking). What's up with THAT?!!
My guess would be that Gonzaga barely scraped by their conference schedule. Yes they did win all the games, but they should have blown away the other teams as the WCC is weak. The PAC 10 is so much stronger; Gonzaga should have had a higher margin of victory thru-out and not have stumbled as much in the conference tourny.
Well if we can complain about teams not making it, then what about UTEP or UH (my school)? Both have solid cases. C-USA wasn't as bad this year as everyone made it out to be. UH played pretty well this season (knocking off Arizona and LSU while both were ranked and giving Memphis ALL they could handle twice in the span of a week). Oh well, NIT bound this year for my Cougars...we'll see how they fare there.....
Heck, let's just do away with the conference tournaments altogether and add another weekend of NCAA tourney, double to field to 128 and if you are a bubble team at that time, then do you really have a case to argue??? Or better yet, cut one week of non-conference from the start of the year, and make it nearly an all-comers field of 256...
How did George Mason get in and Hofstra was left out? 'Cause George Mason rules! /alum /doesn't actually care
Well, if expanded the field to 128 then you'd have some under .500 squads in the field of play, and you'd also have teams 129-130's complaining too...either way, there WILL be complaints about this system... This is why we have the NIT...if you don't get into the NCAAs, then you have this "backup tournament" to go to...its mainly about the playing opportunity...right?
