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March Monotony
Mar. 15th, 2007 05:03 pmJust taking a break from watching the NCAA basketball tournament, which started today. I've been watching all day and so far there have been no upsets, which is extremely unusual for the sports event that proclaims it is "March Madness." For those of you who think the key is what you stick in the ignition of your preppy, tin-can hybrid, 64 teams are seeded in the tournament into a bracket. Each team gets a number in the bracket and that is their rank until the brackets are whittled down the the Final Four. There are four brackets with 16 teams each. In the first round, the 1 team plays the 16 team, 2 plays 15, 3 plays 14, 4 plays 13 and so on. An upset happens when a team with a lower seed beats a higher seed (ex. 13 beats 4). If a lower seed gets far into the tournament, they are called a Cinderella team and they're a lot of fun to watch and cheer for because the rest of us are sick of hearing about how wonderful Duke, Maryland, Kansas, UCLA and the rest of college basketball royalty are (who am I missing?) XP
Right now, the first round is almost halfway over and there is usually at least one upset by now (George Mason, anyone?), but not this year. Last year, there were upsets left and right and up and down and everywhere you went (maybe it's because West Virginia isn't in the tournament this year). I don't know if the BCS football committees staged a hostile takeover of the NCAA selection or what, but it's shaping up to be a rather boring March Madness tournament (which is kind of an oxymoron). It's like they put the Rich Fart States in with the Podunk U's that they knew wouldn't win.
Some teams tried to make a run at it today. I quite enjoyed watching Davidson play Maryland, but Davidson really couldn't pull it out. I thought they would. Then, the one that really ticks me off, Oral Roberts can't even finish against Washington State (USU played ORU in the ESPN BracketBuster and USU beat ORU on the road, but ORU gets into the tournament and can't even make it interesting, so that's why I'm mad about that).
I don't know what it'll take to get the lower seeds to wake up and start winning, but they better do it soon or I'm turning basketball off for the month of March. "Duke Wins" is not the sort of headline that gets my attention. It's the same thing as printing something that says "Sun Rises in the East." I guess this could make the BCS think about a tournament for football, since they're into rigging games for predictable outcomes in favor of their little darlings.
Also, the closest seeds in the first round is the #8 plays the #9. BYU is seeded #8 and they are going to play #9 Xavier. It's not really that big of an upset, but if there is to be an upset in this first round, I want it to be this one. Xavier better show up to play the Zoobs or I'm going to beat somebody to a pulp (I'd prefer it to be that chicken-boy Dave Rose, but anyone in Utah Valley will do).
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
PS, Since when does Ohio State have a basketball team in the #1 seed? Beyond that, since when does Ohio State have a basketball team? Are they trying to host a college sports monopoly or what?
Right now, the first round is almost halfway over and there is usually at least one upset by now (George Mason, anyone?), but not this year. Last year, there were upsets left and right and up and down and everywhere you went (maybe it's because West Virginia isn't in the tournament this year). I don't know if the BCS football committees staged a hostile takeover of the NCAA selection or what, but it's shaping up to be a rather boring March Madness tournament (which is kind of an oxymoron). It's like they put the Rich Fart States in with the Podunk U's that they knew wouldn't win.
Some teams tried to make a run at it today. I quite enjoyed watching Davidson play Maryland, but Davidson really couldn't pull it out. I thought they would. Then, the one that really ticks me off, Oral Roberts can't even finish against Washington State (USU played ORU in the ESPN BracketBuster and USU beat ORU on the road, but ORU gets into the tournament and can't even make it interesting, so that's why I'm mad about that).
I don't know what it'll take to get the lower seeds to wake up and start winning, but they better do it soon or I'm turning basketball off for the month of March. "Duke Wins" is not the sort of headline that gets my attention. It's the same thing as printing something that says "Sun Rises in the East." I guess this could make the BCS think about a tournament for football, since they're into rigging games for predictable outcomes in favor of their little darlings.
Also, the closest seeds in the first round is the #8 plays the #9. BYU is seeded #8 and they are going to play #9 Xavier. It's not really that big of an upset, but if there is to be an upset in this first round, I want it to be this one. Xavier better show up to play the Zoobs or I'm going to beat somebody to a pulp (I'd prefer it to be that chicken-boy Dave Rose, but anyone in Utah Valley will do).
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
PS, Since when does Ohio State have a basketball team in the #1 seed? Beyond that, since when does Ohio State have a basketball team? Are they trying to host a college sports monopoly or what?
