Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 196585, member: 289"] What if we had a BCS type system in basketball and two teams were simply chosen to play for the title at the end of the season? I thought it might be fun to look at the match-ups. I’ll use the weekly poll information in the ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia beginning in the first year of polls, (1948). From 1991, I go with the RPI ratings. 1949 BCS: Kentucky vs. Oklahoma A&M (State) That’s what we got, (WWG) Kentucky won 1950 BCS: Bradley vs. Ohio State. WWG: CCNY beat Bradley 1951 BCS: Kentucky vs. Oklahoma State WWG: Kentucky beat Kansas State 1952 BCS: Kentucky vs. Illinois WWG: Kansas beat St. John’s 1953 BCS: Indiana vs. Seton Hall WWG: Indiana beat Kansas 1954 BCS: Kentucky vs. La Salle WWG: La Salle beat Bradley 1955 BCS: San Francisco vs. Kentucky WWG: San Francisco beat LaSalle 1956 BCS: San Francisco vs. NC State WWG: San Francisco beat Iowa 1957 BCS: North Carolina vs. Kansas WWG: North Carolina beat Kansas 1958 BCS: West Virginia vs. Cincinnati WWG: Kentucky beat Seattle 1959 BCS: Kansas State vs. Kentucky WWG: California beat West Virginia 1960 BCS: Cincinnati vs. California WWG: Ohio State beat California 1961 BCS: Ohio State vs. Cincinnati WWG: Cincinnati beat Ohio State 1962 BCS: Ohio State vs. Cincinnati WWG: Cincinnati beat Ohio State 1963 BCS: Cincinnati vs. Duke WWG: Loyola (Chicago) beat Cincinnati 1964 BCS: UCLA vs. Michigan WWG: UCLA beat Duke 1965 BCS: Michigan vs. UCLA WWG: UCLA beat Michigan 1966 BCS: Kentucky vs. Duke WWG: Texas Western (UTEP) beat Kentucky 1967 BCS: UCLA vs. Louisville WWG: UCLA beat Dayton 1968 BCS: Houston vs. UCLA WWG: UCLA beat North Carolina 1969 BCS: UCLA vs. North Carolina WWG: UCLA beat Purdue 1970 BCS: Kentucky vs. UCLA WWG: UCLA beat Jacksonville 1971 BCS: UCLA vs. Marquette WWG: UCLA beat Villanova 1972 BCS: UCLA vs. North Carolina WWG: UCLA beat Florida State 1973 BCS: UCLA vs. Long Beach State, (NC State was on probation) WWG: UCLA beat Memphis (State) 1974 BCS: NC State vs. UCLA WWG: NC State beat Marquette 1975 BCS: Indiana vs. UCLA WWG: UCLA beat Kentucky 1976 BCS: Indiana vs. Marquette WWG: Indiana beat Michigan 1977 BCS: Michigan vs. UCLA WWG: Marquette beat North Carolina 1978 BCS: Kentucky vs. UCLA WWG: Kentucky beat Duke 1979 BCS: Indiana State vs. UCLA WWG: Michigan State beat Indiana State 1980 BCS: DePaul vs. Louisville WWG: Louisville beat UCLA 1981 BCS: DePaul vs. Oregon State WWG: Indiana beat North Carolina 1982 BCS: North Carolina vs. DePaul WWG: North Carolina vs. Georgetown 1983 BCS: Houston vs. Louisville WWG: NC State beat Houston 1984 BCS: North Carolina vs. Georgetown WWG: Georgetown beat Houston 1985 BCS: Georgetown vs. Michigan WWG: Villanova beat Georgetown 1986 BCS: Duke vs. Kansas WWG: Louisville beat Duke 1987 BCS: UNLV vs. North Carolina WWG: Indiana vs. Syracuse 1988 BCS; Temple vs. Arizona WWG: Kansas beat Oklahoma 1989 BCS: Arizona vs. Georgetown WWG: Michigan beat Seton Hall 1990 BCS: Oklahoma vs. UNLV WWG: UNLV beat Duke 1991 BCS; UNLV vs. Arkansas WWG: Duke beat Kansas 1992 BCS:: Kansas vs. Duke WWG: Duke beat Michigan 1993 BCS: Indiana vs. North Carolina WWG: North Carolina vs. Michigan 1994 BCS: Purdue vs. Missouri WWG: Arkansas vs. Duke 1995 BCS: UCLA vs. Arkansas WWG: UCLA beat Arkansas 1996 BCS: Kentucky vs. Massachusetts WWG: Kentucky over Syracuse 1997 BCS: Kansas vs. Kentucky WWG: Arizona beat Kentucky 1998 BCS: North Carolina beat Duke WWG: Kentucky beat Utah 1999 BCS: Duke vs. Michigan State WWG: Connecticut over Duke 2000 BCS: Cincinnati vs. Kentucky WWG: Michigan State beat Florida 2001 BCS: Duke vs. Stanford WWG: Duke beat Arizona 2002 BCS: Kansas vs. Cincinnati WWG: Maryland beat. Indiana 2003 BCS: Kentucky vs. Arizona WWG: Syracuse beat Kansas 2004 BCS: Kentucky vs. Duke WWG: Connecticut beat Georgia Tech 2005 BCS: Kansas vs. Illinois WWG: North Carolina beat Illinois 2006 BCS: Duke vs. Villanova WWG: Florida beat UCLA 2007 BCS: Ohio State vs. North Carolina WWG: Florida beat Ohio State 2008 BCS: Tennessee vs. North Carolina WWG: Kansas beat Memphis 2009 BCS: Duke vs. Pittsburgh WWG: North Carolina beat Michigan State 2010 BCS: Kansas vs. Kentucky WWG: Duke beat Butler 2011 BCS: Kansas vs. Ohio State WWG: Connecticut beat Butler It’s more than a question of which result you like better. It’s the teams that were left out of the 1 vs. 2 format that were included in the comprehensive tournament. I think the public would be very upset if we ditched the tournament format for a 1 vs. 2 game and the schools that would be left out, (including Syracuse) would have rebelled against it. I do think the tournament format has done an increasingly poor job of producing the match-ups we’ve waited all season to see. That Connecticut- Butter game still bothers the heck out of me. But I don’t see switching to a 1 vs. 2 game as any kind of an answer. If I had my druthers, I’d prefer to pick the top 16 teams in the country and put them in four regionals. Then each regional would be like an Olympic pool: a round robin but instead of two teams advancing, I’d have extra games to break ties. Then the four regional champions advance to the Final Four, with the National Championship being decided the same way. The best teams would have a better chance, (but not an automatic one) of advancing and producing better match-ups in the Final Four and a champion who was more clearly the best team in the country. [/QUOTE]

Verification: What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?