Today's NCAA Tournament games have been boring. We've seen exactly one close game (Wichita State/VCU) and one game that sounds like it was good, but I was flying to Connecticut (Syracuse/UNC Asheville). That's a one hot album every ten year average.
The real problem with the tournament is that the selection committee has gotten too good. Thanks entirely to the movie Moneyball, advanced statistics have made it possible for people to compare teams from different conferences very fairly. Gone are the days when Murray State would be patted on the head for its one-loss season and given a 13 seed. Now, teams like Wichita State regularly get 5 seeds, which leads to matchups with VCU that no one cares about.
Do you recognize the problem? If Murray State were a 13 seed, some 4 seed was probably going down today. We'd get a buzzer beater, we'd think that an underdog had won a huge upset, and everyone would be happy.
Solution: we need to reintroduce corruption into the selection process. No one wants to see Wichita State play VCU, but underseed them both, and I will LOVE to watch them take down an over-seeded Baylor or Michigan team. An additional benefit is it allows athletic directors and other NCAA types to engage in yet another form of corruption, which will make them happy.
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