shoxrox wrote:Ace Dad wrote:What about tourney worthy teams in the 18-22 conferences that fall under the MVC that cannot get an at large bid?
About half the posters on this thread sound like whiny school girls.
There is no fair way to select 69 out of 344 teams. There will always be 80-90 teams that are deserving.
Indiana State should have beat 2-3 more non conference foes if they wanted to be taken seriously. Just like Evansville.
90 teams that are deserving? Negative.
Indiana State is being taken seriously, considering they've made a CBS bracket this late into January.
I agree with shocker3. They can't lose another non-CU or WSU game and they still need to beat at least one of those to have a decent chance. Also, probably making the Valley finals would help too, if not, for sure the Valley semis with a loss to either WSU or CU.
"Negative", says who? You?
Go visit the other conference websites or talk to fans from other conferences and you will find the same sentiment.
There is not such thing as 68 best teams. We objectively identify about half the teams based on conference championships. We then subjectively allow a bunch of old wise men (and women?) to select the other half. Along the way, some very good teams are not going to be selected. So, I will stick with my assessment that there may be 22 or more teams among the 250 remaining teams that are tourney worthy.
It is all voodoo science anyway. So, win you OOC games and stop the whining.
Ever select one man out of 12 for a job when all 12 were equally qualified? Life is not fair and neither is basketball.
There is no difference between basketball and life. Give both your best and ignore the "fans" on the sideline.
