Shane’s Drivel

One thing I like about the NCAA Basketball Tournament is that is isn’t just the top 65 teams. There are in’s from pretty much every conference, including conference tournament winners. This situation gives rise to Cinderella teams teams like last year’s George Mason or the North Carolina State team that won the championship but wouldn’t have made the tournament had they not won their conference tournament.

But there ought to be more discretion in selecting teams. Exhibit A:

UCLA 70

Mississippi Valley State 29

Come on. Every year a handful of deserving teams are snubbed from the tournament. Surely any of a dozen teams would have fared far better than Valley against UCLA.

(NCAA logo, duly ignored. Suck it, NCAA.)