The beauty of the NCAA tournament is you can’t manipulate it. You can try, by pushing narratives all season. You can attempt to use analytics to frame your agendas.
In the end, the NCAA tournament is the final judge and jury. It has spoken. The best collective basketball in the country is being played where it almost is the ACC and Big East.
SEC? Come on you guys can’t even beat Yale or Oakland no matter what your commissioner says.
Big 10? You haven’t won a title in over 20 years. Even if Purdue wins the title, you have a long way to go to be considered an elite basketball conference.
Big12? Hey, you had a nice run we’ll admit. Your metrics consistently look great, but you’ve lost 11 of 14 games to the ACC this year. You can’t be considered top-dog losing that many games to one conference. You have your metrics we’ll take box scores.
MWC? Well you did get more NCAA bids than either the ACC or Big East, and your fans argued a lot with me on Twitter. You had 5 teams and counting eliminated before round 2 of the tournament ended. Step aside, please.
As the Sweet 16 approaches, the class of college basketball is who it always is – the Big East and ACC.
The two conferences had to fight for a paltry 8 bids combined, and yet 4 ACC teams (UNC, Clemson, Duke, and NC State), and 3 Big East (UConn, Marquette, Creighton) are headed to the Sweet 16.
The conferences went a remarkable 14-1 in the NCAA tournament. What is this? The mid-1980s?
It was never as complicated as some basketball observers (we won’t call them experts) made it to be.
All you had to do was watch the games.
