This excerpt from an article on FoxSports online that states that the 4 teams in Indy aren't the best teams in America has flawed logic in that Florida started the season on a 17-0 run and is now on a 9-0 streak against top competition...... "All four won at least six consecutive games during the regular season. Duke won 17 straight to start the season. Memphis won 15 straight in January and February. Connecticut and Villanova won 10 and 11 consecutive games respectively to start the season — and again in conference play." http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5454848?GT1=7934
UCLA isn't even the same team as the beginning of the season. Through most of the first half, they played without four starters and the fifth, Jordan Farmar was playing hurt. They didn't even have their best players together until the end of the season and finished by winning the last eleven straight. The best four teams are there. I've never seen a pennant won in April or a Super Bowl won in August. What are these clowns thinking? ..................DD :?: :?
Too easy <r>Two points- Single elimination means you have to be "good" and "lucky" to win. Luck is a legitimate component of sports...not as important as good but still a large component. So a team that is good, and has demonstrated it over the course of the season, deserves to be in the tournament and then uses that goodness and luck to advance in the tournament should be eligible to be crowned the champion. Second point- It is a cheap shot with no real thought to come up with all of the criticism in that article and not offer one possible solution. That's because all other solutions are not tenable. The NCAA basketball tournament is the best tournament there is. You have to be successful during the season and/or win your conference tournament and at the end of the big show <E>8)</E> no one can argue about who should be number 1 because if you are number 1 you just finished the tournament undefeated.</r>
I am a proponent as you all know of the luck/bad ref factor being a major player on the college scene but if you look at UF's wins with the possible exception of Georgetown the Gators dominated their victims in this tournament. Even against the Hoyas it was Brewer's athleticism at the end along with Noah that was the difference in that game and not some fortuitous bounce or bad call. Certainly there was no luck in UCLA's domination of LSU last night either. These two teams are 32-6 apiece and I say they belong right where they are.....playing for the national title.