Conference Tournaments

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

In America East, the usual case is that one team is worthy to go to the NCAAs and that is the regular season champ. Vermont looks to be that team again this year, but if they lose the championship game they would be 25-7 and in the usual fashion, the NIT will pick some 14-14 club from the ACC, or...wait for it...the SEC... that went 5-11 in their conference instead. I don't have a problem with the conference tournaments except when a conference like this gets left out of both tournaments in favor of some big conference also-ran. Vermont did thump BC early this season, but if they lose, I don't think they will get selected. Happens all the time in this conference.

But no matter what, Billy Packer will be a jerk on the selection show.

Sure it might happen....but in all likely hood, that 5-11 team from the ACC or SEC would likely thump Vermont. To suggest otherwise is particularly silly. Sure, exceptions do happen but why penalize a team for being in 1 of the 2 toughest conferences in the land. In fact, the SEC is full of teams around .500 this year. They're so close, the've been beating each other almost at ramdom. Does this necessarily make them all bad? No...it just means that they're similar.