Ready for the Big Dance
Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the Madness is nigh.
For the NCAA tournament selection committee, that madness began early: Sunday’s five conference games had bracket implications, and the 65-team bracket wasn’t done until 20 minutes before CBS began its broadcast. (The biggest drama of the day: Georgia — which otherwise would have gone home — completed its unlikely run through the SEC tournament, beating Arkansas for an automatic bid.)
The bracket was refreshingly free of cries of “Injustice!” Top seed North Carolina is widely regarded as deserving of that honor, and among the other No. 1s — UCLA, Memphis and Kansas — only the Jayhawks came with caveats. (Coulda been Tennessee or Texas.) For the first time since 1980, last year’s finalists will be left out of the tournament. But while Ohio State was a possibility for an at-large spot, defending-champion Florida deserved its trip to the NIT.
The Buckeyes can fuss, at least minimally. So can Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth and Illinois State. The team with the biggest cause for complaint? Arizona State: The Sun Devils beat their archrivals at Arizona twice and then saw the Wildcats grab a No. 10 seed. Still, all in all there were few howls and whines when the bracket was complete.
Maybe that’s because the 2008 field is fairly mediocre, Bob Ryan writes in the Boston Globe, offering sympathy for the selection committee.
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Choose only one answer for each of the first eight questions, as in the case of a tie, any correct answer counts. Correct answers are worth 10 points each unless otherwise noted:
1. Which will be the team with the highest seed number (16 is higher than 1) to win in the first round? (Please respond with a team name, and not a seed number.)
2. Which No. 1 seed will win by the fewest points in the first round?
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Again? This happened years ago, after the first couple of books were out. Might as well post about the Bill Gates E-mail tracking system finally being proved to be a joke between colleagues.
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You were? I was jerkin’ it!
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I was holding out hope.
LOL! The mothers were jealous they weren’t getting a turn.
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