Preponderance of Ponderances

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

No Respect

Kansas State should be in the NCAA Tournament, especially since Texas Tech made it in. There are a couple of other teams that probably also deserve to be in, but I don't know enough about them to comment. I do know that the Big 10 and Pac-10 have too many teams. I have no idea how Stanford made it in, nor do I know how Illinois made it in, either. Georgia Tech, in my mind, is also a question mark, given that they finished 6th in the ACC. Kansas State could have legitimately taken any of those teams spots and could probably beat those teams on any given day. So why was K-State left out? One simple reason: reputation. Those three teams are all perceived to be good, so even if they have a sub-par year, they will be allowed in. K-State will have to have a better year next year in order to get the respect of the Selection Committee. For now, I guess it's NIT time for K-State.

1 comment:

B. D. Mooneyham said...: There seem to be a lot of question marks for the NCAA tournament this year. For instance, why did Florida get the number one overall seed, when Ohio State, KU, and UNC all won their conference tournament championships and were ranked higher at the end of the season (and didn't lose three out of four games late in the season, like Florida did)?

I really felt like our players deserved a spot in the tournament this year, but what can you do? Needless to say, there are some angry people in Manhattan.; 3/12/2007 3:10 AM