Geez Louise...
I think the bracket match-ups suck big time...
Presuming that Arizona and Kentucky were to survive all of their earlier match-ups, at best, at the very best, they meet in the semis not the championship game. The two best teams all year, and there's no way they get to dance the final dance...
Auburn? The committee takes Auburn over Tennessee? Over Seton Hall? Over Boston College? Over Texas Tech? One could make a similar argument for taking Alabama...
Texas with a #1 seed? Over Kansas? Over Pittsburgh? Why? I think that the committee makes too much of the strength of opponents' schedules...
Relocating Oklahoma to the East bracket over Pittsburgh? The Panthers were the best in the East... No way, especially given the way that the Sooners held on to barely win their conference tournament...
Looks to me like the dance committee has set this thing up to favor the Big 12 schools, except for Kansas. The Jayhawks have Creighton or Duke to probably contend with. And if they survive that half of the bracket, then they can likely look forward to Arizona. Tain't fair...
Oklahoma gets a relative cake walk, with the only real challenges by perhaps Wake Forest or Syracuse. The committee didn't place UConn or Maryland in the East bracket. Wonder why???
Kentucky, in the Midwest gets no respect either... For starters, shouldn't they have gotten the #1 seed in the South? They've got Pittsburgh, Marquette, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oregon and Indiana in their bracket, which I think is the toughest bracket of them all.
And lastly, look at the South, where Texas gets the #1 seed... They start off with the play-in winner, the survivor of the 64th or 65th seed. They've got the weakest #2 seed in Florida. The only real competition would seem to be either Maryland or UConn, as Stanford hasn't been playing well lately.
So, to me it looks like the committee has set the whole seeding process so that it favors Texas and Oklahoma, guaranteeing the Big 12 a spot in the championship game should both Texas and Oklahoma make it to the final four...
Sheesh...
KJC |
