This blog should probably be under my Cranky Old Fuddy Duddy blog, but it's also a crackpot theory, so I'm putting it here.
The NCAA did not want Syracuse in the final game of the 2010 Division 1 Men's Basketball Tournament. Everyone knows that Duke got the easy round and shouldn’t have been ranked ahead of Syracuse. (If you don't know this, Google it. The pundits and experts have been having a field day.) But the NCAA took it even one step further.
How, you may ask, do I, a simple woman who'd rather cook than play a sport, know this?
Easy.
KANSAS was a Thursday/Saturday team in the 1st/2nd rounds
Had they survived, they would have been a Friday/Sunday Sweet 16/Elite 8, giving them an extra day of rest.
KENTUCKY was Thursday/Saturday team in the 1st & 2nd rounds and remained as such in the Sweet 16/Elite 8 rounds.
DUKE Friday/Sunday, Friday/Sunday.
Anybody seeing a pattern here?
Anybody seeing a pattern here?
SYRACUSE was a Friday/Sunday, then switched to a Thursday/Saturday, not giving the team as much rest between games as the other number 1 seeds.
SYRACUSE should have remained a Friday/Sunday contender in the Sweet 16/Elite 8 rounds if for no other reason than Sweet 16/Elite 8 games were scheduled at the Carrier Dome (SU's home court) on Thursday/Saturday.Talk about a scheduling travesty!
Looks blatant anti-Orange to me.
Now maybe you've have read this in the paper, on-line, or heard it in the broadcast media. I have not (because of that rock under which I live), but being a moderately bright old lady, I figured it out anyway.
Because it’s blatant.
Because it’s blatant.
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