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March Madness? More like March Blandness in as NCAA Tournament has too much chalk

Yahoo Sports

For the fourth consecutive year, only one double-digit seed will make Sweet 16. That's not March Madness. It's March Mildness.

Oh, great. Another snoozefest of an Men's NCAA Tournament . Any hopes for the chaos that makes this event so raucously entertaining are officially over, buried under a pile of chalk dust.

For the third consecutive year, no seed 12 or higher will make the Sweet 16. For the fourth consecutive year, only one-double digit seed will survive the first weekend. And you can’t count Texas as a plucky underdog .

Just ask Longhorns coach Sean Miller. March Madness scores, highlights: An upset, near-misses alter Sweet 16 bracket “I don’t think we ever want to sign up to be the Cinderella story because we are the University of Texas,” Miller said after his 11 th -seeded team beat Gonzaga on Saturday , March 21. “We represent the SEC as well.

” The beauty of March Madness has always been, well, the Madness. Little schools no one’s heard of knocking off teams from the power conferences. Kids who won’t go further than the local rec center when their college careers are done knocking down shots that would be the envy of NBA players.