[NU Sports] too bad for Uncle Floyd (or not)

[Michael Vance]

Hakirsch at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/3/2006 6:34:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> prplehaze at insightbb.com writes:
>
>   
>> If you're not good enough to win your 
>> conference, you're not good enough to make the game.
>>     
>
> Baloney--the game is supposed to be for the top 2 teams in the country--if 
> you are the second best team in the country and the best happens to be in your 
> conference--then so be it--why should the 3rd best team make it jsut because 
> they are in a  different conference--If you put in that stupid rule, then tell 
> everyone you are changing the meaning of the game---
>
> While the NCAA hoops tournament champion, as  previosuly stated ,is not 
> necessarily the best team, if 2 teams in the finals are from the same conference , 
> may response is you don't take the loser of one of the semi-final games 
> against one of the winners and sustitute them in 
>   
You're right.  As a matter of fact, the NCAA hoops tourney is 
deliberately seeded such that the top teams in any one conference are 
not in the same region, deliberately allowing for the fact that as many 
as the best *four* teams in the tournament could be from the same 
conference.

-Michael