If there is one thing I hate about conference championship week, it is the halftime shows that come with it.
Some people love them. Listening to talking heads from different networks adamantly argue about which bubble teams will be announced as part of the NCAA tournament field during today’s Selection Show, and which squads will be headed to the less-prestigious NIT, or even the dreaded CBI, is what they live for.
Not while every major-conference team that is on ”the bubble” is so mediocre, anyway.
Seriously, is there one halfway-decent bubble team from a big conference out there this year?
”Virginia Tech, because it played No. 1 North Carolina to a close loss, is definitely deserving of a spot in the field.”
Ugh. Where’s the mute button.
Funny how none of these highly paid experts mentions that Arizona finished the season with a losing conference record, Kentucky struggled through a string of embarrassing nonconference losses not much different than Idaho State and Virginia Tech hasn’t beaten a ranked team all season.
None of these teams deserves to go to the NCAA tournament. But all three could find their names on bracket lines today. If they don’t, a coach somewhere in America will follow Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim’s lead and complain that the Big Dance is too small.

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