March Madness Who Got Snubbed This Year?
Every March they have The NCAA Basketball championship series. In this Tournament 65 of the Top Teams in Division I basketball competes to see who the best in the land is in a single elimination last team standing format. Every year schools are left out of the NCCA Tournament by the selection committee leaving fans sportswriters and students to debate why their team should have been in the tournament.
One can argue the majority of the schools already participate in the tournament because 31 berths are determined by Conference standings or winning a conference tournament. The other 34 teams are selected by the NCCA selection committee. Since the large majority of division I teams are part of a conference then they can guarantee a spot by winning the Conference Tournament or being the Conference champion.
The 34 at large spots are given to teams that are either not part of a Conference (at large teams) or teams that didn’t get an automatic berth. Are the teams that are conference members really being snubbed if they aren’t selected? If you can’t beat the teams in your conference how can you beat the best teams in the country? Most if not all of the at large teams could be a part of a conference if they wanted to so do they have a right to complain if they are snubbed?
A good part of sports is controversies. If the fans and sportswriters did not debate the merits of why their teams got snubbed then the NCCAA tournament would not be as much fun to watch.
