Drew Sharp a jerk - but right about NCAA selection process
I hate Drew Sharp's writing, and Michigan deserves to get in to the NCAA tourney,but I am doubtful about the Big 10 having 8 teams in the tourney. (See Sharp's column, link http://www.freep.com/article/20090314/COL08/903140323/1054/SPORTS06/Pol…)
Everyone knows that the 13 through 16 seeds are largely sacrificial lambs from smaller conferences, and those teams know it too. But part of the fun of the tournament is seeing these obscure schools have their day in the sun. If the tourney basically became only the Big 10, Big East, ACC, Pac 10, SEC, Big 12, it would lose it's character and fun to me. We know that IU, Iowa, & NW don't deserve to go. I also wonder about Penn State and Minnesota. I think Michigan is better than both, and deserves to go more than them, but I question all three going.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:13 PM ^
PSU is the team that's going to be left out. Their RPI and SOS will kill them. We're in a more secure position than they are.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:53 PM ^
I'm thinking/hoping that Michigan's tourney chances are at least better than Penn State and Minnesota's. If so, the Big Ten can still get 6 teams in and Michigan wouldn't be left out.
Actually, at the start of his arguement he's wrong. The selection process is about finding the 34 BEST at large teams, not the most deserving. They are two very different things.