00:00College basketball, of course, we're right here in the home of the Big East tournament,
00:04semifinals tonight, just after 5 o'clock and 8 o'clock, you got UConn still alive, you
00:09got St. John's, you got Seton Hall, you got Georgetown, right, so great Final Four now
00:14for Big East.
00:16Then you have the Big 12 playing basketball on glass because they have a stupid jerk-off
00:21commissioner who lied under oath in a previous court case and once made a former girlfriend
00:26get an abortion against her will, but that's what you get when you hire Brett Yarmark to
00:31run the Big 12 and he then announces yesterday, you know, on second thought, it's probably
00:36better for us to actually bring a basketball court in for our guys to play basketball on.
00:41He's maybe the dumbest human being in America and I can't stand him, so that's the Big 12,
00:47of course, and then you have what's cooking in the SEC, then you have what's cooking and
00:53overall, one of the at-large bids for the tournament is now officially going to come
00:59down to a one-loss Miami of Ohio team that was 31-0 and then lost in the quarterfinals
01:07of its conference tournament to UMass, so they are 31-1 now, sitting there waiting to find
01:16out if the committee on Sunday night is going to grant them an at-large bid because they're
01:21not going to get the official bid for their conference, someone else is going to get that,
01:25are they going to take a 31-win team or are they going to take a 16-loss team from
01:35a major
01:35conference like an SEC, I suppose like, you know, the ACC, the Big 10, the 12, the PAC,
01:41whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever. So let me just make this very clear. If Miami of Ohio
01:46at 31-1 does not get into the tournament, you might as well scrap the tournament because you've
01:55forgotten what the tournament is all about. It's not about let's get as many teams from major power
02:03five conferences into the tournament regardless of their one loss record. It is about rewarding teams
02:11that had brilliant, great regular seasons like Miami of Ohio who went undefeated this year
02:19in winning more than 30 games. I completely agree with that and my biggest issue is these guys that
02:27you were talking about before want to likely get rid of the conference tournaments and expand the
02:31tournament. That's been all the talk. They might need to get to 96 teams. There's not enough automatic
02:36bids, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, even though I like it how it is. So if that's the case, you
02:41have
02:41to then weigh the regular season that much more and not just weigh one game in the post in the
02:48conference
02:49tournament. To me, if you win 31 games in a row, you should be in the tournament. Otherwise, why are
02:56you
02:56actually playing these regular season games? Because before the year, you could have just went down on
03:01paper and picture SEC schools. You could have picture ACC schools, Big 10, Big 12, etc. and called
03:07it good. The reason you play the regular season is it's supposed to matter and you're supposed to be
03:12rewarded if you have a good one. So to me, it's very simple. Yeah, by the way, it's not even
03:17just that.
03:18It's the fact that they were 31-0, right? Nobody else was undefeated. They wound up ranked 20th prior
03:27to that first round loss in their tournament to UMass. And good job at UMass. Give them credit
03:32for upending the only undefeated team left in college basketball. But to me, this is a simple
03:38one. And I see all like the Joe Lenardis and all the guys that are like the college basketball experts
03:43who do a very good job trying to figure out in advance of it happening. These are the last 14
03:48kind of on the bubble that are going to get in. These are the four teams on the bubble that
03:52are
03:52the first four not to get in. And I love that stuff. The coverage, I think, has been great.
03:57But let's use Auburn because they're the most obvious example. Auburn lost to Tennessee in the
04:03first round of the SEC tournament, okay? Final score 72-62. They got outscored by 17 points in the
04:10second half. They ended their season at 17 and 16. 16 losses. Now, do they have more quote-unquote
04:19quad one wins? Yes. Not because they're good, but because they have those games on their schedule.
04:26Miami of Ohio, because they play in a mid-major conference, just don't have enough of those
04:31teams on their schedule. But man, they went through the entire regular season and they did not lose
04:37a single game. And I want to be clear about this. I'm not even claiming to have watched Miami of
04:44Ohio play basketball a single time this year. I didn't have to. I couldn't tell you a single guy
04:49on that roster. But they play official Division 1A college basketball in a mid-major conference and
04:59they did not lose a single game. If we're going to punish them now for losing a single game because
05:06they lost it in a postseason tournament and not reward those kids and that coach for going 31-0,
05:14then there's something wrong with college sports. Now, I know there's something wrong with college
05:18sports, but this one to me is not even a debatable argument. So for all the college basketball heads
05:25out there that are like, nah man, you don't get it. You know, if Auburn played Miami of Ohio,
05:29they'd beat them by 15. I don't know that they would. I don't know that they wouldn't. But I do
05:35know this. Auburn is essentially a 500 basketball team with 16 losses this year. How does it make
05:46sense to anybody outside of an Auburn booster, an Austin grad, Auburn grad, you know, or someone has
05:52an affiliation with Auburn that, of course, is going to be subjective, not objective, about wanting
05:58them to get in. But how can you look anybody in the eye and say to someone that an argument
06:04shooter could be made that a 16-loss team deserves a spot in the top 68 over a ranked team.
06:15Auburn's not
06:16ranked in the top 25, but a member of Ohio is their 20th when they lost that game to UMass
06:21yesterday.
06:22How could you make an argument that a 16-loss unranked team from a bigger, better conference
06:29is more deserving of a 13-seed, 14-seed, 15-seed, 16-seed, playing seed, et cetera, than a team
06:40that is 31-1 who, unfortunately, suffered their only loss in their own postseason conference
06:48tournament? It just is no argument to be made.
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