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After his team had dispatched of Kansas State, Jim Boeheim met with a small group of reporters in a hallway at the Consol Energy Center.
Eventually a manager came by to tell the Syracuse coach that he had to go. The bus was waiting. Boeheim turned to leave, then stopped to add one more thought. "By the way, it still matters,'' he said. "Getting to the Sweet 16.''
These are the glory days for college basketball, when the fat is trimmed from 68 to 16, and those still standing have left the generic aisle to enter the high-end label department: Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four.
But in a world where only the winners are remembered, is 16 still sweet or just an artificial substitute?
Yes it still matters, as Boeheim said, but does it matter as much? It depends on your point of view. "I've always thought it's a good thing to get there, to get to the Sweet 16,'' Boeheim said. "The really good thing about it is you still have a chance to go further.''
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...ow-sweet-sweet-16-depends-ask-ncaa-tournament
(Of course this is on the front page of ESPN.com with a picture of 2 guys in Boeheim masks and the article has a solo picture of Boeheim.)
Eventually a manager came by to tell the Syracuse coach that he had to go. The bus was waiting. Boeheim turned to leave, then stopped to add one more thought. "By the way, it still matters,'' he said. "Getting to the Sweet 16.''
These are the glory days for college basketball, when the fat is trimmed from 68 to 16, and those still standing have left the generic aisle to enter the high-end label department: Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four.
But in a world where only the winners are remembered, is 16 still sweet or just an artificial substitute?
Yes it still matters, as Boeheim said, but does it matter as much? It depends on your point of view. "I've always thought it's a good thing to get there, to get to the Sweet 16,'' Boeheim said. "The really good thing about it is you still have a chance to go further.''
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...ow-sweet-sweet-16-depends-ask-ncaa-tournament
(Of course this is on the front page of ESPN.com with a picture of 2 guys in Boeheim masks and the article has a solo picture of Boeheim.)
