These males’s basketball convention tournaments make completely no sense

1. Ivy League

You already know what? I’m beginning to suppose that we’ve been overestimating the worth of an Ivy League training for many years now. I’m basing this totally off the truth that the convention holds a four-team event at a pre-determined on-campus location.

None of this works.

If you happen to’re capping the sphere at 4, you might as nicely return to the previous 14-game event days. And when you’re going to have play the video games on a campus website, at the very least have the benefit for the host college be an earned one. Additionally, at the very least be certain the host college is definitely going to be a participant within the event, which received’t be the case this 12 months when the event takes place at Brown.

You folks baffle me. You spend all of your cash on these fancy convention tournaments, you encompass your self with ‘em, and so they’re the improper fuckin’ convention tournaments.

The No. 2 seed has received this event 5 years in a row, and the one time the No. 1 seed has received it was method again in its first 12 months of existence in 2017. If that development hols true — regardless of 12-1 Yale being 4 video games clear of each different crew within the convention — it’ll be an absolute disgrace.

2. Mid-American

Drained: Being mad at leagues for routinely advancing their finest groups to the event semifinals.

Wired: Being mad at leagues for leaving a bit of their groups on the backside of the convention standings out of their tournaments totally.

I’ve come round on the concept of defending your finest groups and giving them one of the best shot at incomes the league’s auto-bid … as long as you set your event up in a method that at the very least provides everybody a shot. Is it extraordinarily unlikely that Southern Miss goes to tear off seven wins in seven days to win the Solar Belt? After all, however that’s the value you pay for being the Twelfth-best crew in a 14-team league.

However at the very least you get the chance to play till you lose. That’s what this sport and this postseason are speculated to be about.

The MAC, conversely, retains the underside 4 groups from its 12-team league out of its convention event totally. They aren’t the one convention doing one thing like this, however they’re the league with essentially the most persistently aggressive lineup from prime to backside, and due to this fact essentially the most egregious offenders.

Somebody goes to go 8-10 in convention play and get overlooked of the league event. That appears foolish and simply avoidable.

It’s one further day of basketball. Nobody goes to complain about it. Develop up.

3. Huge Sky

This was once as a result of a prime two seed had received this event in seven straight years and the No. 1 seed had received in 10 of the final 13. That modified final 12 months with Montana State making an awesome run because the 5-seed and taking down 3-seed Montana to win the title.

Now that is all about the truth that I haven’t been despatched a “Starch Insanity” shirt.

I would really like a Starch Insanity shirt.

Additionally, Northern Colorado vs. Montana can be a implausible title recreation.