You Can’t Keep A Bad Idea Down: The NCAA Set To Expand The Tournament
This isn’t going over very well.
(Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) | Getty Images The NCAA has decided to expand the tournament, and to quote Charlton Heston from the Planet of the Apes when he realized he was back on Earth: “We finally really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up!
Ah, damn you…damn you all to hell! ” In case you weren’t sure, we don’t think it’s a smart idea to expand the tournament. Why mess with something that already works so well?
Take the ACC Tournament. Once upon a time, it was almost impossible to get in, but with 18 teams, games spread over five days instead of three, it’s just too much. The teams that play on Day One will be tired on Day Three, upsets are far more uncommon, and you might as well come on Thursday or Friday, if your team is still there.
Why pay for five days in a hotel for 2-3 days of good basketball? But they’re clearly going to do it, no matter how stupid it is, so we’ll just have to suck it up and, like in the modern ACC Tournament, get through the crappy games and wait for the good ones. So be it.