Conference Tournament Discussion Thread

• SportsAndLady

  

  Detroit has to be the most ghetto team ever lol
• Fab1b

  

  SportsAndLady;1107618 wrote:Detroit has to be the most ghetto team ever lol

  
  LMAO
• Fab1b

  

  2pt game on ESPN2 with 3:00 left
• Fab1b

  

  Tied up :15 W Ill ball
• Fab1b

  

  OT
• reclegend22

  

  SportsAndLady;1107618 wrote:Detroit has to be the most ghetto team ever lol

  They definitely wouldn't be the fan favorite against Berlin Hiland down at the State Tournament. Whenever the Hiland Hawks play against a team from the inner-city, Value City Arena turns into an extremist right-wing secret society. Lol. It never fails down there. Makes for some tremendous noise, though.
• lhslep134

  

  In theory the more teams available to a playoff kind of detract from the true nature of the champion. Exclusivity lends credence to a truer champion. The BCS is wrong because there's only 2 teams. I think 64 teams is even more wrong (Uconn best team last year??? Yeah right).
• Azubuike24

  

  If anything, all it does is water down what it means to "make the field."
  
  Whether they make it 64, 68, 96, 128 or every D1 school, it really doesn't have an impact on THE BEST. The best is usually in that final group of 8 or 16 regardless. That's the nature of the tournament. However, it doesn't detract from the true champion IMO, if they make all 16-seeds have a play-in to get smoked by a #1.
• Fab1b

  

  WIU with a chance to win it
• Fab1b

  

  That was ugly
• lhslep134

  

  Azubuike24;1107652 wrote: However, it doesn't detract from the true champion IMO.

  I completely disagree. Maybe 6 rounds of best of 3, but 6 rounds of 1 game does not determine the true champion.
• Mulva

  

  lhslep134;1107650 wrote:In theory the more teams available to a playoff kind of detract from the true nature of the champion. Exclusivity lends credence to a truer champion. The BCS is wrong because there's only 2 teams. I think 64 teams is even more wrong (Uconn best team last year??? Yeah right).

  A champion and a best team aren't the same thing.
  
  A champion (as a noun) is the winner of first-prize in a competition. So no, having more teams does not detract from that definition at all. If anything it adds to it, because the champion will have to defeat more opponents to win the competition.
  
  I think more people are interested in crowning a champion than in crowning a best team. Were the Giants the best team in the NFL? Highly debatable. Were they the champion? Not debatable.
• lhslep134

  

  Mulva;1107675 wrote: I think more people are interested in crowning a champion than in crowning a best team. Were the Giants the best team in the NFL? Highly debatable. Were they the champion? Not debatable.

  Yeah you're right. But then I would say that a one game format still doesn't crown a true champion. MLB and NBA playoffs are the best imo
• Mulva

  

  I definitely agree that a series format is the most likely way for the "best" team to end up winning, but it still doesn't always work out (see the 84 win Cardinals team that won the World Series awhile back).
  
  I think in general people get too caught up in the idea that any playoff is meant to determine the best team. They're meant to determine a champion. The teams that make the playoffs are the teams deemed worthy (based on standings, selection committee, whatever) to compete for that championship.
  
  To me, one of the great things about sports is that the best team doesn't always win. I completely agree with you that a big tournament definitely isn't conducive to proclaiming a best team, but people would debate who the best team actually was no matter how it was decided. It doesn't water down the "trueness" of the champion though, in my opinion.
• Mulva

  

  I like college basketball way too much, so I'm audio streaming the end of the Montana - E. Washington game (Montana is on a 8-0 run in 2 minutes to go up 69-62 with 35 seconds left). Anyway, Montana apparently got a dunk and the announcer busted out "Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk". Classic.
• lhslep134

  

  Mulva;1107683 wrote: I think in general people get too caught up in the idea that any playoff is meant to determine the best team. They're meant to determine a champion. The teams that make the playoffs are the teams deemed worthy (based on standings, selection committee, whatever) to compete for that championship.
  

  That's true. Good post
• Laley23

  

  The real Big East gets started today. I enjoy the Tuesday matchups, but you get the much better teams and games starting today.
  
  Of course, Peyton and Irsay are gonna upstage it all at noon.
• vball10set

  Laley23;1107882 wrote:The real Big East gets started today. I enjoy the Tuesday matchups, but you get the much better teams and games starting today.
  
  Of course, Peyton and Irsay are gonna upstage it all at noon.

  did you and TD do both games last night?
• Laley23

  

  vball10set;1107922 wrote:did you and TD do both games last night?

  Yes. Great games as well.
• Azubuike24

  

  lhslep134;1107662 wrote:I completely disagree. Maybe 6 rounds of best of 3, but 6 rounds of 1 game does not determine the true champion.

  You missed my point.
  
  What I meant was 64, 68 or 128. None of those makes a difference as far as a true champion being crowned. That's how I read your post, and that's why NCAA Tournament expansion doesn't bother me. When they went to 64, it became a daunting task for any team to fathom, so the "true champion every year" was thrown out the window 25 years ago...
• vball10set

  Laley23;1107928 wrote:Yes. Great games as well.

  Did MVCDS and TC play in the regular season? if so, what was the outcome?
• Laley23

  

  vball10set;1108054 wrote:Did MVCDS and TC play in the regular season? if so, what was the outcome?

  Yeah, they are both in the TAAC. MV won both meetings, en route to a 13-1 league record. Both teams played the best games Ive seen out of them (limited viewings, admittedly) this season. If they both play the same way, MV wins by about 10 imo.
  
  Pittman vs Brown will be a good match-up. Turner can shut down Cellier. Diechert and Winzeler are about even. No one on TC can stop Sturt, if he comes to play.
  
  MV won at TC 43-42 then at MV 59-46. The first win was the 1st of 19 straight. They have been playing better and better as the season goes on, which is why I expect Friday to be similar to that 2nd game score.
• vball10set

  ^^thanks for the report...will BCSN have it Friday (prolly tape delay)?
• lhslep134

  

  Azubuike24;1107951 wrote:You missed my point.
  
  What I meant was 64, 68 or 128. None of those makes a difference as far as a true champion being crowned. That's how I read your post, and that's why NCAA Tournament expansion doesn't bother me. When they went to 64, it became a daunting task for any team to fathom, so the "true champion every year" was thrown out the window 25 years ago...

  Gotcha. Expansion doesn't bother me, it's the single elimination format I don't like. But it is what it is, and I don't think anyone will argue March Madness isn't the most entertaining way to crown a champ.
• chicago510

  

  UConn is so talented, but so soft. Getting killed on the glass.