9-1-1 Emergency! There has been a robbery on the Selection
Show. The University of Tennessee has more top-50 RPI wins than Middle Tennessee
State University
and St. Mary’s combined and some how in all this madness the selection
committee left UT out while MTSU and St. Mary’s both got in.
Maybe the selection committee drank too much green beer
before they finalized the field of 68. Maybe they were rushing through the
selections to make it to Saint Patty’s Day shenanigans. For whatever reason
they felt MTSU was one of the best teams in college basketball, it clearly wasn’t
the best reason. They even lost their conference tourney.
The selection committee said Tennessee didn’t beat anybody down the
stretch. Umm, do Florida,
Missouri, and Kentucky by 30 mean anything? Apparently
not.
“The ability to win on the road separated MTSU from other
teams that didn’t get in” Mike Bobinski Committee Chair told CBS. MTSU lost to Florida on the road, lost to Akron
on the road, lost to Arkansas
State on the road, and
they lost to FIU on the road.
In the next interview Bobinski will say that MTSU got in
because they “travel well”.
Southern Miss, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama
were all NCAA top 60 RPI teams and all four teams were left out.
If the Selection Committee would just come out and admit
that they took every little team they could then I’d have a lot more respect
for this bracket. What we did learn from this year is that it’s not about who
you beat, but who you lost to. #SMH
Let the Cupcake scheduling begin in 2014!
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