With so many college teams, there has to be a playoff system in place that can allow competitive play while not being excessively long. Every team’s goal is to win a championship but first a team has to make it into the field of 64 teams. Every year there is some debate between the good enough teams omitted and some not-as-good teams barely making it in.
College basketball has something called RPI which takes into account wins, losses, quality wins, seeds, opponents records, etc. Of course there’s controversy about that because, for instance, Arizona State beat Arizona twice in the regular season but Arizona State didn’t make it into the field of 64 but their rival Arizona did.
Now the field is down to 16 and there are two #1 that many analysts predict will be on upset alert in the Sweet 16 and they are UCLA and Memphis. People agree that the other two #1 seeds of North Carolina and Kansas will be moving on with no difficulty, but there’s no guarantee of anything unless something is mathematically certain or impossible.
Kansas is overrated to a lot of people. Kansas love their team and their Kansas Jayhawks merchandise. If their team makes it to San Antonio, then they won’t have as far to travel as most teams would.
UCLA is put on upset alert because of their close wins against teams that they should have easily beat. They keep getting favorable calls in the last few seconds of games, many of which have been controversy.
Memphis is a solid team but they have one major flaw; they can’t make free throws to save their lives. They are the third worst free shooting team in college basketball. Shooting an average of 60 percent and not even 50 percent against Mississippi State would normally signal a sure loss. If Memphis made most of their free throws, then the game would not have been close. If Memphis does not get their free throw shooting together, they will not win the championship.
With so many college teams, there has to be a playoff system in place that can allow competitive play while not being excessively long. Every team’s goal is to win a championship but first a team has to make it into the field of 64 teams. Every year there is some debate between the good enough teams omitted and some not-as-good teams barely making it in.
College basketball has something called RPI which takes into account wins, losses, quality wins, seeds, opponents records, etc. Of course there’s controversy about that because, for instance, Arizona State beat Arizona twice in the regular season but Arizona State didn’t make it into the field of 64 but their rival Arizona did.
Now the field is down to 16 and there are two #1 that many analysts predict will be on upset alert in the Sweet 16 and they are UCLA and Memphis. People agree that the other two #1 seeds of North Carolina and Kansas will be moving on with no difficulty, but there’s no guarantee of anything unless something is mathematically certain or impossible.
Kansas is overrated to a lot of people. Kansas love their team and their Kansas Jayhawks merchandise. If their team makes it to San Antonio, then they won’t have as far to travel as most teams would.
UCLA is put on upset alert because of their close wins against teams that they should have easily beat. They keep getting favorable calls in the last few seconds of games, many of which have been controversy.
Memphis is a solid team but they have one major flaw; they can’t make free throws to save their lives. They are the third worst free shooting team in college basketball. Shooting an average of 60 percent and not even 50 percent against Mississippi State would normally signal a sure loss. If Memphis made most of their free throws, then the game would not have been close. If Memphis does not get their free throw shooting together, they will not win the championship.
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