I’m a Big 10 homer. Always have been, always will be. I’m irritated by the national press snubs we are always afforded, and enraged when our hometown press eats their young. But last night Purdue strained my conference affections. Have you ever heard of a MID GAME ADJUSTMENT!?!?!? Jesus CHRIST! If you’ve got this gigantic center over whom no shot can be made, switch to your outside game! Stop trying to drive it inside, and looking surprised when he smacks the ball back in your face! Somewhere in Ohio, the Grinster approves of this game plan.
It was fun watching Duke get out Duked ( /dodges brick) by Villanova. Neither team has an inside presence, and you will go nowhere without a dominant big man.
Back to me being a Big 10 homer. I love hearing all of these ESPN “analysts” bitching on their soap boxes that not enough mid majors get in the tournament. They whine that it’s not St. Mary’s fault the teams they played in non-con sucked this year. It’s not SDSU’s fault they play in a shitty conference. It’s not Memphis’ fault Conference USA is a joke. Well cry me a fucking river. Yes it is. The selection committee looks at how the teams you played performed this year, not last year dumb ass. Why did Minnesota and Wisconsin make it in over these mid-majors? Because they beat good teams! While I will never defend Wisconsin on this blog, I will instead argue that Penn State should have garnered an invite as well. You watch these joke mid-major teams sneak in with the auto-bid and get pounded every year by the same teams. It’s the NCAA tournament, not fucking retirement home shuffleboard tourney! Instead you watch teams with legitimate tournament resumes play good games against other highly regarded opponents. These games are engaging and represent a legitimate search for the nation’s best basketball
team. If the mid-majors want a shot at the prize, they need to schedule tougher non-conference schedules as a whole conference. Rising water raising all ships, and if your entire conference is playing a tough schedule like the Big 10, the Big East and the ACC do year in, year out, your conference RPI will increase. But that’s not enough. You need to beat these tougher teams. It’s not enough to say “well, I got destroyed by Duke, Sparty and UCONN, why didn’t I get an at large bid?”. That’s like saying “I drove my company and the entire US economy in the ground, but I tried hard and still deserve my $10 million bonus!”. Die.
And Digger Phelps, kindly shove it up your ass.
It was fun watching Duke get out Duked ( /dodges brick) by Villanova. Neither team has an inside presence, and you will go nowhere without a dominant big man.
Back to me being a Big 10 homer. I love hearing all of these ESPN “analysts” bitching on their soap boxes that not enough mid majors get in the tournament. They whine that it’s not St. Mary’s fault the teams they played in non-con sucked this year. It’s not SDSU’s fault they play in a shitty conference. It’s not Memphis’ fault Conference USA is a joke. Well cry me a fucking river. Yes it is. The selection committee looks at how the teams you played performed this year, not last year dumb ass. Why did Minnesota and Wisconsin make it in over these mid-majors? Because they beat good teams! While I will never defend Wisconsin on this blog, I will instead argue that Penn State should have garnered an invite as well. You watch these joke mid-major teams sneak in with the auto-bid and get pounded every year by the same teams. It’s the NCAA tournament, not fucking retirement home shuffleboard tourney! Instead you watch teams with legitimate tournament resumes play good games against other highly regarded opponents. These games are engaging and represent a legitimate search for the nation’s best basketball
team. If the mid-majors want a shot at the prize, they need to schedule tougher non-conference schedules as a whole conference. Rising water raising all ships, and if your entire conference is playing a tough schedule like the Big 10, the Big East and the ACC do year in, year out, your conference RPI will increase. But that’s not enough. You need to beat these tougher teams. It’s not enough to say “well, I got destroyed by Duke, Sparty and UCONN, why didn’t I get an at large bid?”. That’s like saying “I drove my company and the entire US economy in the ground, but I tried hard and still deserve my $10 million bonus!”. Die.And Digger Phelps, kindly shove it up your ass.
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