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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2525768, member: 289"]
It's a national championship tournament. The teams that deserve to be in are the teams that have proven themselves to be among the best teams in the country over the course of the season. The idea is to get them together in a tournament to determine the best of the best.

The rest of the teams are along for the ride. Some of them are in conferences that shouldn't even be in Division 1. they cling to that status in hopes of pulling off an upset that will prevent the sort of confrontation we've waited all year to see. Those teams should be in division 2 or a basketball 1AA where their kids would have a shot at a championship.

Some of them are from legitimate D1A conferences but they were also-rans, clearly not the best team in the conference or close to it. Ironically those are the teams we spend our time talking about this time of year. We don't talk about whether Virginia is better than Villanova or if Michigan State or Kansas could beat those teams. Instead, we obsess over which 20-13 will get in and which will be left out. the fact is none of those teams [I]deserve [/I]to be in the tournament. Some of them will wind up in it because we need 68 teams. some will not.  barring a fluke, the ones who get in will be gone after the first weekend anyway.

if we don't hear (or read) "Syracuse" tonight, let's not climb out on a ledge. Just sigh and move on. See who wins it this year and dream about next year when maybe we'll 'deserve' it.
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