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To: Sideshow Bob
Without conference champs, you would have to rely on the pencil neck computer uber-geeks to determine playoff qualifying and seeding. No thanks.

So, you don't like the College World Series format or March Madness format?

11 posted on 12/07/2004 12:12:36 PM PST by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember
So, you don't like the College World Series format or March Madness format?

Unfortunately, baseball is not a universal Division I sport because many colleges have been forced to drop baseball because of Title IX. As for structure, I prefer best of 3 for baseball to double elimination. In basketball, I like much of March Madness. I love the fact that the championship is decided on the court.

But I'm not a big fan of conference tournaments and/or awarding automatic NCAA bids to conference tournament champs. Theoretically, a team could finish 0-26 in the regular season, win 3 games in the conference tourney, get a bogus NCAA bid and keep a bubble team out. The seeding of the NCAA basketball tournament has also been extremely suspect - last year in particular.

Still, despite its flaws, March Madness is still the best sports championship around.

21 posted on 12/07/2004 1:46:12 PM PST by Sideshow Bob
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