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and also the nightmare played out on Tuesday night,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Give the NCAA credit for trying to spice up its dreaded play-in game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which in fact had been painfully insignificant since its inception in 2001. But what we should found out yesterday is the fact that answer to making the play-in game relevant isn much more of them.
If you UAB, which lost to Clemson, 70-52, in last night inaugural Four,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], do you really feel like you played in the NCAA tournament? More likely, once the Blazers watch the beginning of the actual tournament Thursday, it will seem like an entirely different event.
No matter how hard the NCAA attempted to make Dayton look and feel just like a regular first-round site the same court,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the same high-definition video boards as well as exactly the same announcing crew that will call the Final Four you can either in the field of 64 or you not. Anything else is halfway to the NIT.
Nobody will admit this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of course. For UAB coach Mike Davis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that has not been to the NCAA tournament before,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], halfway will do.
you've been there when our name came across the screen you have seen several guys that were so excited to be a some of it, Davis said. had not a problem being in this game. Here's your best time of your college career to be a part of March Madness.
This wasn March Madness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however. It was March Mildness, regardless of how the NCAA attempted to dress up.
When the NCAA expanded from 65 to 68 this season, adding three at-large teams, there is a huge debate about which teams should have to play their distance to the standard bracket. Some advocated determining all the No. 16 seeds in Dayton. Others argued that the last eight at-large teams should play each other,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with the four winners feeding in as No. 12 seeds.
Instead, the NCAA combined the above ideas and came up with the very first Four,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which includes four at-large teams playing for No. 11 or 12 seeds and four automatic qualifiers playing for No. 16 seeds.
UNC-Asheville,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which beat Arkansas-Little Rock, 81-77, in overtime within the first game Tuesday, progresses to play Pittsburgh. Wednesday night, Texas-San Antonio and Alabama State will face off for the best to play Ohio State. For those teams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], getting a win here before becoming No. 1 seed fodder is a nice experience. But the truth is nobody really wants to get delivered to Dayton even now that the NCAA is trying to really make it seem more like the regular tournament.
we first heard that we were going to maintain the play-in game, some of the guys were type of . . . i was obviously happy to maintain the NCAA tournament,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said UNC Asheville guard Matt Dickey,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose 3-pointer with 10 seconds left sent the overall game to overtime. I believe we thought about being within the second round. UAB and the loser of USC and Virginia Commonwealth on Wednesday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], being here's better than the choice. And with a doubleheader rather than one play-in game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this event certainly came off much better than previous years.
But anyone who has visited an NCAA tournament knows this wasn't the NCAA tournament. Though the stands were fairly full,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it had been mostly an area crowd not fans of UAB or Clemson which didn lend itself to much of an atmosphere. Even though both games were entertaining,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], neither quite showcased the intensity or level of concentration teams typically play with when the lights come on last night.
Speaking of the lights,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they weren exactly up to snuff,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], either.
Moments before UAB and Clemson tipped off, the University of Dayton Arena bowl went halfway dark, which designed for an inauspicious debut of basketball on TruTV.
But as hokey and contrived as this whole experience was, the worst part is that it fundamentally unfair.
The answer to this logistical silliness, of course, is to get eliminate the very first Four. The actual tournament starts with 64 teams, not 68. Adding more games and more teams didn change that. It only sent more teams home feeling like they didn quite make it to the primary event.
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