20 year old kids don't get tired.*
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They can lose their legs, and we are a bad shooting team with fresh legs.
No, but sometimes they get stuck playing sports against other 20 year old kids who are better at it.
How do they lose their legs? Playing 15/20 minutes every other day? I'm sure they play pickup for hours and hours every day in the summer etc. I don't get the tired claims. At all. Is it unique to basketball? They're kids
A VW Beetle loses 10% of power and owner's don't notice, an F1 car does and it is known.
NBA teams had to have rules passed to stop players sitting out a game when they have back to back nights. This isn't back to back, but there was a cross country trip delayed by an NCAA screw up.
I don't buy it Marv. I get the travel throws you off but the amount of actual minutes these guys play is nothing. They take breaks constantly. And they are young. I think St Mary's is just better.
SMC is a better team. We might be tired, but all the energy in the world wouldn't change that fact.
St Mary's is better. That isn't my argument. The first four teams should not have to from Dayton to the coast and play in less than 48 hours.
Agreed. Travel isn't fair. First four should be held where you would play thereafter
That is true. But what's the solution? I'd hate to see the First Four change. Dayton has really nailed that event.
The first four games are a joke anyway. We didn't deserve to be in the tourney in the first place. This game does nothing but demonstrate that further.
They should, but it will never happen. The money hungry NCAA can't get enough of more and more. They don't care about the kids, they care about the $. See the atrocity of the CFP.
It needs to go away. Let Dayton host a first round.
If going to 64 is not an option, the first 4 have to stay east of the Mississippi. But even failing that, our game and the Rutgers/ND game should have been the first game. That at least buys 2.5 more hours. Oh, have the right plane at the airport too.
Notre Dame may destroy my argument tomorrow.
More conferences got auto bids, so they expanded to keep more at-large teams.
I could see tying the First Four to East/Midwest pods.
Yep - even though 12 seeds upsetting 5 seeds is semi-common, it’s still an upset.
It's kind of insane. Aren't there like 350 D1 teams now
We aren't very good so there is that. Five games in 8 days doesn't help when combined with the travel.
Underwood mentioned Illinois being tired last year after the BTT. Given the conference struggles the last 20 years, I wonder if it's time consider moving the BTT up on the calendar.
Go to 96 teams. And have them play in the weekend before. Easy fix.
Looks like one of those pissant conferences beat Kentucky. Another beat the Big Ten Tourney champs and another beat the hell out of IU
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I like that. Every single "first round" game includes a favorite with a bye and an underdog that just got off the bus.
Most end Saturday, I am not sure that makes much of a difference.
Big Ten extends their tournament with the bogus double byes instead of just giving two byes and playing a straight bracket. All for TV and attendance money.
Or make a 128 all comers meet … almost like the old Indiana single class tourney
It may be somewhat lame, but I really think playing the championship late in the day Sunday really doesn't help in the grand scheme of things. I'd move everything up a day.
If they do that, I'd like to see every conference get two bids. Regular season and conference champ. Or two finalists. Or some combination of winner and runner-up. Whatever.
Yup. Reg season should count for more in one bid conferences than the conf tourney
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