Annual Big10 Choke Thread
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Nine teams and no show in elite eight, and we are talking a couple of 3 seeds in addition to a 4 and a 5 so not talking St. Peters type seeds. Not like 3 seed Purdue had to beat a 2 seed to get into the elite 8.
Maybe Iona, winner of the regular season in ST. Peters' league should have been in instead of the 9th Big 14 team Indiana who were 9-11 in their own league with 7 of those wins against league opponents with losing league records worse than Indiana's. They even lost to Fruit U from Canada which should have excluded them from consideration.
Second year in a row Big 14 has nine teams in field and zero teams in elite 8, hmmmmm, seems like a consistent pattern developing here. Only league to have more than 9 teams is the BE in 2011 with 11 and we know how that ended.
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No league should have more than 8 teams in the Tourney.
No team with a losing record in their conference should make the Tourney without winning their league championship.
They all have plenty of chances to get the results needed. Give the smaller schools a fair shot in terms of access and seeding. It's not even worth discussing past performance when they're consistently scattered across the country against top 1,2,3 seeds.
No team with a losing record in their conference should make the Tourney without winning their league championship.
They all have plenty of chances to get the results needed. Give the smaller schools a fair shot in terms of access and seeding. It's not even worth discussing past performance when they're consistently scattered across the country against top 1,2,3 seeds.