ESPN Ranks the Best NCAA Tournaments

[CL82]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33478832/march-madness-2022-ranking-best-ncaa-men-basketball-tournaments

Not a lot of Connecticut love, but a few mentions including 2011, 2014 and the infamous George Mason game.

Conspicuously absent? 1999, which in my opinion ranks up there with the greatest finals games

 

[uconnfan68]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33478832/march-madness-2022-ranking-best-ncaa-men-basketball-tournaments

Not a lot of Connecticut love, but a few mentions including 2011, 2014 and the infamous George Mason game.

Conspicuously absent? 1999, which in my opinion ranks up there with the greatest finals games

But it was bad for dook, so it must not be mentioned.

 

[Hogoff]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/33478832/march-madness-2022-ranking-best-ncaa-men-basketball-tournaments

Not a lot of Connecticut love, but a few mentions including 2011, 2014 and the infamous George Mason game.

Conspicuously absent? 1999, which in my opinion ranks up there with the greatest finals games

Fudge ESPN! They never show UConn love!

 

[CL82]

But it was bad for dook, so it must not be mentioned.

And good for UConn, so it must also not be mentioned

 

[gtcam]

Who cares
UConn has the rings, thats all that matters

 

[Palatine]

The 1999 NCAA Tourney was often called by the media "The Duke Invitational" because their victory was a foregone conclusion.

 

[pj]

Fudge ESPN! They never show UConn love!

ESPN owns the ACC and SEC, Fox has the Big East. They promote their own properties.

 

[RedDog]

UCONN did get called a Blue Blood:

The 2014 tournament gave us a title game pitting two of basketball's blue bloods against each other. That's not exactly novel. But the fact that UConn was a No. 7 seed and Kentucky was an 8 shows how wacky these three weeks were.

 

[Ha Who]

ESPN owns the ACC and SEC, Fox has the Big East. They promote their own properties.

I have been thinking about this recently. Rome did eventually fall

 

[Kolumbo]

Where did they rank 1985? I just revisited the bracket.
8 Nova upset 2 UNC
11 BCU upset 3 puke

 

[ninety-nine]

They didn't even mention the ridiculous UConn-Clemson buzzer beater when talking about 1990. They did, of course, list the Christian Laettners beating UConn as the best game of the tournament. How is this a competent article?

 

[Watchdog]

The 1999 NCAA Tourney was often called by the media "The Duke Invitational" because their victory was a foregone conclusion.

On the way from the airport, listening to ESPN on the radio, the yakkers were talking about how Duke was so good it's likely their second team would win. Not a joke............until the final was over!