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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"You never know in the tournament. That's why they call it March Madness. Half of it is believing."
Brian Giorgis. Marist women's basketball coach
Kansas coach Phog Allen is noted as being the creator of the men's NCAA tournament. The first tournament was in 1939.
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: How many years has the Final Four been all No. 1 seeds?
A: One. 2008 was the first year that the Final Four had all No.1 seeds: Kansas, North Carolina, Memphis and UCLA.
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THE MORNING BREW Team expansion makes bracketing hard
Before you know it, you will have to fill your NCAA tournament bracket on a 22-inch by 28-inch poster board you had to buy from Office Depot.
After gradually expanding from 40 to 53 teams throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, the NCAA tournament finally grew to 64 teams, beginning in 1985. Was it too many? Probably, but it was a nice even number you could divide into four regions and everything seemed fine and dandy. That content feeling lasted until the summer of 2010. Apparently the NCAA's bank account didn't have as many zeros as they liked and they felt further expansion was necessary, this time to 68 teams.
Now, eight teams battle it out in the "first round" for the final two 16-seeds
and two more higher seeds, normally a 12 or 13 seed.
So if you want to pick Wichita State to lose in the first round, you can't look at Miami's stats and see if an upset is possible. You have to figure out if Miami will beat Xavier for the chance to even play Wichita State. Sound confusing? It's really not. It's just dumb.
For the proponents of tournament
expansion, (mainly Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg. Look him up, he complains to the high heavens every March when his 19-12 Virginia Tech team is left out of the dance) Butler's back-to-back title game appearances and VCU's final four last year are quickly brought up. That's great and all, but last time I checked, those teams didn't cut down the nets and quite frankly, were total flukes.
If the goal is to crown the best team in the country, a 68-team tournament is about as useful as using a blind person to judge a beauty pageant.
But as we all know, the NCAA tournament's main goal isn't to make sure it crowns the nation's best team. As long as Joe Schmo and Sally from accounting print out their brackets and pick winners based on mascots and
what their 2-year old daughter wants and watch every game after not seeing a ball bounce all season, things won't change because ratings will soar.
Expansion is not always a bad thing, but with most anything in life revolving around money, contraction is not part of anyone's vocabulary. And it should be because nobody likes writing on poster boards.
Edited by Amanda Gage
This week in athletics
Friday
Baseball
UTSA
6 p.m.
San Antonio
Saturday
Sunday
Men's Basketball
Texas
8 p.m.
Lawrence
Nomen's Basketball
Oklahoma
' p.m.
korman, Okla.
Men's Golf
Louisiana Classics
All day
Lafayette, La.
Monday
Tuesday
Men's Golf Louisiana Classics All day Lafayette, La.
Baseball
North Dakota
3 p.m.
awrence
Wednesday
The match features Kansas'
SOCCER
Current team hosts game with alumni
The game will be played at Jayhawk Soccer Complex on Saturday at 1 p.m.
current roster against a 21-person alumni roster.
The Kansas Soccer team officially begins its spring season this weekend with its annual alumni match.
Some recent players are also scheduled to be playing against the current roster such as Kelsey Clifton, Kortney Clifton and Jordyn
The alumni roster is highlighted by Kansas' all-time leading goal-scorer Caroline Smith and Cynthia Remke, who played for coach Mark Francis' first team in 1996.
Baseball
North Dakota
3 p. m.
Lawrence
Perdue, who were members of the 2011 NCAA Tournament team and four-year letter winners.
Kansas' current team will likely be a formidable opponent for the alumni team. The Jayhawks return all 11 starters from last fall's squad.
Kansas will start its spring schedule next weekend when it faces Nebraska on March 10.
Women's Basketball Big 12 Championship TBA Kansas City, Mo.
The Jayhawks will then play South Dakota State on March 31, before they travel to Iowa on April 15 for a two-game swing.
Ryan McCarthy
Women's Basketball Big 12 Championship TBA Kansas City, Mo.
Thursday
BASKETBALL
Big 12 to announce award winners
For the third straight season, the conference will announce the winners via the Twitter handle.
The Big 12 Conference will announce the winners of the All-Big 12 men's basketball awards on Sunday and the women's basketball awards Monday.
@Big12Conference, and on Big12sports.com. On both days, the conference will release the information at 3 p.m. at 10-minute intervals.
Junior forward Thomas Robinson and senior guard Tyshawn Taylor are likely candidates for both the player of the year and first team honors. Coach Bill Self is likely a candidate for coach of
the year. He won the award last season.
Also last season, Marcus Morris was the player of the year. Markieff Morris was on the second team and Tyrel Reed and Brady Morningstar were honorable mentions. Morningstar also made the all-defensive team.
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