Okay, so every other year or so we get a mid major or small
conference at large bubble team to go a couple rounds. Is that what
we are looking for? Just upset wins? I have a lot more large
conference examples for each.

It's funny because you are asking for respect for each of these small
conference teams that happen to win two games in a row, but if you
compare these teams with the last teams of the large conference teams
that got accepted, the big conference are more competitive and go
further, and more frequently.

Maybe what you people are looking for is a Cinderella tournament, not
a national championship tourney. Let's just pit small conference
teams against large conference teams and hope for a good story. Then
for every one out of 4 times that the small conference advances,
let's celebrate it as if the world is turning upside down. Then we
can say the real basketball is played in small conferences, while we
forget that the ACC and SEC teams advanced. Big schools advancing,
beating small conference schools (because they are supposed to)is
never talked about to the degree of the small school getting an upset
win.

--- In collegerpi@yahoogroups.com, Bill Harty <bharty@n...> wrote:
> At 05:12 PM 2/29/2004, you wrote:
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> >--- dd564 <dd564@y...> wrote:
> >
> >> Remember the small conference teams that got in last
> >> year? Southern
> >> Ill, Dayton, etc. What did they do?
> >
> >Those specific teams may have lost but two years ago
> >Kent State made a run to the elite 8. The year beofe
> >that, they made the sweet 16. In fact, when was the
> >last time a MAC team didn't pass the first round?
> >You're also ignorning Butler's run specifically from
> >last year. Would it necessarily have been a better
> >tournament with Tennessee instead of Butler?
>
> ...or even Boston College? ;-)
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