Reseed the Final Four? That idea is as bad as last time I heard it

The March Madness bracket is beautiful.

Reseed the Final Four. You’re going to hear that idea this week , with the top two teams in college basketball , Arizona and Michigan, meeting in the semifinals instead of the national championship, while UConn faces Illinois in the other semifinal. Like a lot of ideas, this one sounds good in the theory stage.

Peel back the layers, though, and envision what reseeding the Final Four would mean in practice, and the idea loses footing. Reseeding would require disrupting the original structure of the bracket. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll keep saying it as long as the NCAA has this tournament format: Leave the tournament alone.

I’ll say it once more for effect: Leave. The. Bracket.