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Message: [QUOTE="joct, post: 5032786, member: 2001"] The main thing keeping it relevant, is nationally, everyone still loves the tournament. Filling out the brackets, rooting for upsets and buzzer-beaters, all of that. Ratings wise, the tournament still does very well. Without that the sport would really be in trouble in my opinion. The regular season has no buzz, the lines of success seems to just mean in the tournament, on the bubble, or clearly out. Once you're in, nothing else seems to matter in the regular season until the tournament, unless you're fighting for a 1 seed and playing locally. NC State is a great story and there are things like that, but the sport has become tough to follow between the regular season not having any juice, following recruiting and seeing a player develop just to transfer after 5 minutes or go pro too early and start all over the next year. [/QUOTE]