All credit for this post goes to one of my favorite writers, Jason Whitlock, who wrote an article immediately after the brackets were released about how ridiculous Duke's placement was/is.
If you polled the country to rank the top teams we would come up with something like: #1 Kansas and Kentucky a close #2, then Syracuse, Duke, Ohio State and West Virginia would be fighting for the next highest rank.
According to the selection committee, they agreed. Kansas was the top overall seed, but regional setup looks very fishy. I already discussed who I thought should be fighting for the other two #1 seeds. So if Kentucky and Kansas are the top dawgs, they shouldnt have one of those guys as a #2 seed right? Nay. The selection committee dropped West Virginia and Ohio State into the regions with the Jayhawks and Wildcats. While Duke gets Villanova, whom is melting down faster than Phil Mickelson at Winged Foot.
Plus, Duke gets probably one of the weakest 3-seeds (Baylor) and 4-seed (Purdue). Unless Robbie Hummel limps onto the floor Willis Reed-style, but you know... actually can score some points for his team, then Purdue might not make it out of round-1.
Now Duke has a pretty healthy resume, but they looked anything but a clear-cut #1 seed in the ACC tournament. And there is NO WAY they should have the easiest road to Indy.
Well Mr. Whitlock has the answer... its a contract year for the NCAA tournament. ESPN and CBS are vying for a deal to lock up the tournament for several years and the NCAA wants to jack-up the price. So to do that, you need monster ratings this year. To do that you need one of two things:
Either reveal one of Tiger Wood's "conquests" at halftime of each tournament game while playing One Shining Moment. Or you need a bunch of white, tattooless guys led by a legendary white coach to make a deep run in the tourney.
Unfortunately for all of us, they decided to go with the latter... Boo on you NCAA. I can't wait to root for University of Arkansas Pine Bluff in round one.
Stay Classy,
B-Dubs
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