Watching the SIU/Oklahoma St game made me disgusted with how college athletics is being run. This new system of having top seed teams play at venues closer to their campus is complete horse sh#t. Yesturdays game with SIU/Oklahoma st was played in Oklahoma City. Needless to say the fanbase was completely biased towards the cowboys. Not only were the fans, but the announcers also. A reference was made towards SIU as being a "bad cold" as in one that does not go away. A key 3 was made by Cowboys late and the announcer literally yelled YEEESSSSS.
In a great game in which the teams seemed pretty evenly matched how can a lower seed ever advance in the tourney out of the first round or 2 with so many disadvantages to overcome besides playing a higher ranked opponent??
The team placement doesn't bother me, tickets are typically divided 9 ways at every venue between the 8 schools and the host city, fans of losing teams dump their second round tickets so fans of the local teams take them off their hands, but I don't think ANY neutral observer believes that the announcers for the Oklahoma State and Duke games were impartial. That is a disgrace to CBS and the NCAA and insult to viewers.
To me, the worst example was the Wisconsin-Bucknell game. Bucknell had a one-point lead with eight minutes left. The officials sent Wisconsin to the line on four of the next five trips down the floor, while Bucknell got mugged with no calls on the offensive end, including two three-point shots where the shooter was knocked down.
It was as if the officials became the Badgers 6th, 7th and 8th men on the floor.
The NCAA better get their act together, or this tournament is going to start losing credibility one of these years...
I agree with you CMUfanatic. It seems that the local venue stipulation only applies when it's a power conference school. Ohio could have just as easily played in Cleveland, but no, they sent them to Nashville.
Yeah, I can't believe that Kansas got to play close to home in Oklahoma City, That was just so unfair to Bucknell.
Sure, Ohio could have been switched with Penn, 13 seed for 13 seed, then Penn would've complained. Or some other mid-major/lower seed would've complained "Ohio gets to play close to home, why not us?"
I think the tournament had some OUTSTANDING matchups in the David v Goliath setting. That Louisville/La-Lafayette game was fun to watch. Vermont over Syracuse was great. UWM vs BC in the second round was sweet. West Virginia vs Wake Forest was a classic that probably VERY few expected.
Duh!! The seeding close to home is for the schools fans to not have to travel real far to see their team. Elementary wisdon I would say.
I agree. If you compare this years UCF/UCONN game to last years UCF/Pitt game, you can see a clear difference. The UConn game in Worcester, MA was drenched with Huskie supporters and they drowned out out smaller, but still loud UCF fans. Last year it seemed to be an even match up between UCF and Pitt fans in Milwaukee, but Wisconsin fans were on the UCF bandwagon chanting "UCF" along with us to pull the upset.
Shall we look at the number of CBS announcers with ACC ties? Isn't it practically every one of them?
NCAA Tourney?
Is that thing still going on?
-Dan
NCAA=Nobody Cares About A-holes tournament? I'm officially all done with hoops for the season, with WMU's NIT loss. I had hoped for a good run, but...... :rolleyes:
I've watched very little of it.
FalconFan1999 Wrote:NCAA=Nobody Cares About A-holes tournament? I'm officially all done with hoops for the season, with WMU's NIT loss. I had hoped for a good run, but...... :rolleyes:
This tournament has been awesome. Stop; whining because you're team isn't in the dance. I'm tired of some of you MAC fans who consistently whine about everything. As Mike and Mike put it: JUST SHUTUP!!!!
I've watched twice as much women's tourney hoops as men's this year.
If it's college hoops, I'm watching.
Better than the bloated exhibition football games on New Year's.
axeme Wrote:If it's college hoops, I'm watching.
Better than the bloated exhibition football games on New Year's.
I figured you would be wrapped up in the WPGA by now.
OVERHERD Wrote:axeme Wrote:If it's college hoops, I'm watching.
Better than the bloated exhibition football games on New Year's.
I figured you would be wrapped up in the WPGA by now.
Don't you know it's the
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:purple'>L</span></span>PGA.
Sorry mixed it up in my head with <a href='http://www.wpba.com' target='_blank'>THIS</a>.
OVERHERD Wrote:Sorry mixed it up in my head with <a href='http://www.wpba.com' target='_blank'>THIS</a>.
Actually, a couple of those are cuet.
Much better than the LPGA players.
Anika Sorenstam looks nice, but the
pickings are pretty slim after her.
Maybe that's why Axeme declared that
there's no hugging in golf?
Where's Jan Stephenson when you need her.
If you're not watching, you missed some great games-lots of upsets, great plays. Even though I'd like it better if MAC schools were in it, this has been a very entertaining tourney. And two more weeks to go!
There has been some exciting games. That Wake-West Virginia game was a all-time classic. Vermont, Bucknell, Wisconsin-Milwaukee pulling off some nice upsets. The real games start now in the sweet 16. The best of what's left. Only two more weeks until. We wrap up another hoops season. Yes only two weeks because my Cleveland Cavs look done in the NBA. The baseball season starts in two weeks, so that should keep my occupied until Frank and the boys take on Northwestern. Only 5 1/2 months from away.