March Madness First Round to be called the First Round again
Saw this on ESPN - after several years of deluding themselves into believing that the play-in games were an actual round and everyone would be alright with calling the first round of 64 "the second round" and the round of 32 "the third round", the NCAA has finally voted to "return to sanity" as the article puts it. Nice to see the NCAA submitting to logic and public opinion on how dumb their decision was, even on something as small and meaningless as this.
November 17th, 2014 at 8:03 PM ^
Best decision NCAA has made in a while.
November 17th, 2014 at 8:05 PM ^
November 17th, 2014 at 8:12 PM ^
Sanity: Brought to you by the people that renamed Big Ten "Leaders" and "Legends" to Big Ten "East" and "West" like they should have been in the first place.
November 17th, 2014 at 9:55 PM ^
November 18th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
Which one would Maryland be?
November 17th, 2014 at 9:58 PM ^
Exactly what this reminded me of. Also throwback to when that was one of the biggest issues on this board...
November 17th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
If only we gave Missouri the time of day when we had the chance.
November 18th, 2014 at 2:49 PM ^
"Pffffffttt! Nobody watches football on cable TV in Missouri!"
- Jim Delany
November 17th, 2014 at 8:13 PM ^
This is tremendous news! The women and ale will be in ample supply tonight my friends!
November 17th, 2014 at 8:21 PM ^
Their next order of business should be to change it back to "1-A & 1-AA." No one can say "FCS" or "FBS" without having to explain it.
November 17th, 2014 at 8:25 PM ^
November 17th, 2014 at 8:29 PM ^
This will be much better and makes far more sense than how it was marketed before as the "Round of 64...well, not quite that many, but given the mechanics of a single-elimination tournament with play-in games, you get the idea, and as for the Round of 32, well, you'll have the Sweet Sixteen next week anyway..."
November 17th, 2014 at 8:57 PM ^
Do you think they just changed it so they could wait a year to change it back and look like heroes?
November 17th, 2014 at 9:05 PM ^
to host city of sweet 16 and elite 8 instead of by regional name East, South, Midwest and West for a few years before changing back?
November 17th, 2014 at 9:37 PM ^
I refused to go by the NCAA terminology and stuck with the "Play-in Round" and the "First Round".
It'll be nice to avoid having to do that stupid translation again.
November 17th, 2014 at 9:47 PM ^
So the NCAA is finally calling it what the rest of us do. Good for them.
November 17th, 2014 at 9:58 PM ^
who had pushed for the re-naming of the rounds (the 1st Round becoming the 2nd Round), and the NCAA basically gave in to their wishes.
Reason being was that many coaches had incentive clauses in their contracts that said stuff like "reach the second round of the NCAA, get a bonus of $75K."
Well, what better way to get that bonus than to move the goalposts! The American way!
November 17th, 2014 at 10:03 PM ^