In college basketball, teams can qualify two different ways to take part in the NCAA Tournament, March Madness. The first way to qualify for the Tournament is by winning a conference tournament. The other way is decided by an NCAA selection committee, who also choose the rank of each team in the tournament. I feel that this method of deciding each team’s rank can be inaccurate and insufficient. I believe a mathematical process should be developed, that way a team’s fate is not left up to a person’s opinion of them. This mathematical process would have to be fairly complex, but would be impartial to one team or another. The current rankings can be found on ESPN’s “Men’s Basketball Rankings” page. Although I disagree with the method of choosing the rankings, I agree with what the rankings currently are. I belive that the top team is either Kansas or Kentucky, but I still think that it still should be decided through a mathmatical process instead.
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Its March 2nd, so that means March Madness is just around the corner, and with Conference tournaments about to start I can honestly say I am ready to start watching some NCAA basketball. Although I love the excitement and pageantry of March Madness, I can hardly stand watching regular season games thanks largely in part to the seemingly loss of value of the regular season. You said it yourself a team is automatically in the tournament if they win their conference tourney, so even if you had a terrible regular season that chance of making it to the big dance is still there. I completely agree with you that the ranking system is out of whack, but its the same in college football as well. Sure we can argue by looking at wins and losses but with such parody in college basketball who’s to say that an 21-18 team from the acc is anymore deserving to go to the tournament than a presumed weaker, 22-17 team from a conference such as the sunbelt? Yeah I agree that rankings are just opinions of “experts” but in a way it may be the only way that works with out completely relying on a computer system that can cause a lot of contreversy as the BCS in college football does.
By: Marc on March 2, 2010
at 12:41 PM