NCAA tourney is fun, but it renders the entire season meaningless. UConn lost by 33 points in their regularson finale. They were the best team in the tournamet, but they weren't the best team in the nation and they weren't the best team in the season. They just got hot at just the right time.
Winning a national championship isn't about being the best. It's about being the hottest at the very end.
Playoffs are dumb for this reason - in any sport. They discount everything that has come before and put ALL the emphasis on one stretch of play.
MLB - who cares about the previous six months, Just get hot for that seventh month and you're the best!
NHL - who cares about the previous seven months. Just get hot for that eighth month and you're the best!
NBA - who cares about the previous six-seven months. Just get hot for six weeks and you're the best!
NFL - who cares about the fall and early winter. Just get hot for three games and you're the best!
I get that you have to make the post-season so the early games do matter. But they only matter in that they get you to the tournament. Once that tourney starts nothing else matters.
In fact, you could be, hypothetically, 94-0 going into the NBA finals and if you lose the series, then you really didn't accomplish anything and somehow because of one seven game series the previous nearly 100 contests don't mean much.
Although you don't get to a what is best I get the feeling I couldn't disagree with you more. Sports are exciting because they are who wins the competition that day not who's best in my humble opinion. (this is why the BCS sucks. It's twisted sports in to being who's "best" instead of who wins. It's often the same team but its not the same)
(With that said, March madness has kind of turned in to bowl season for me. I love it the first week or so, then it just on and on and I tend to lose interest.)Statistics: Posted by Stirfry — Tue Apr 08, 2014 5:11 pm
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