That Wasn’t Worth It
Last week I said that the general dullness of the first two round of the NCAA Tournament wasn’t such a bad thing. I thought that since so many good teams won, the second weekend would be that much better than most years. I was absolutely wrong.
The last four days were no better than the first four of the tournament. There were 12 games over the weekend and only three of them were what I would call good games. Two of them involved Pitt, a team that underachieved the entire two weeks and the thid was a back and forth affair between Kansas and Michigan State on Friday night.
Michigan State came off their great game on Friday night to take part in one of the worst games I watched the in entire tournament on Sunday. Not to take anything away from the Spartans who played great defense, but it was just difficult to watch. This was almost entirely Louisville’s fault. What a pathetic display of basketball they showed every time they had the ball. Two passes around the perimeter and a contested three was apparently what they decided to go with on offense. Gross.
The most hyped match-ups turned out to be some of the worst games as Syracuse got blown out by Oklahoma, who was run off the court by North Carolina, and Duke was killed by Villanova in the other highly anticipated game. Hey, at least with all these good teams, the Final Four should be great, right? Nah, I think I’ll bad-mouth it and hope for the opposite effect again.
This is what I get for taking joy and celebrating the opposite of what March is all about. Next year I’ll be back to being mad that the San Diego States, Creightons, and St. Marys of the world didn’t get in the tournament. I’ll be looking for a Dayton t-shirt to wear for their game against Kansas, and this whiny complaining post will come a week earlier.
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