March Madness Sucks

Did you know that you can change the channel on your TV?

Well, since the WNBA All-Star team can beat the Houston Rockets, how bad would they beat the NCAA Tournament champ this year? 50 points?

Agreed. Amazes me year after year that this event is able to be marketed and attract such attention from the sports world. The level of play is terrible, as you mentioned.

I hate basketball so I just don't watch. Try it sometime.

This isn’t a surprise, the equivalent is true of every single pro sport. You always get people making the Current Year claim for football (in 2022, “Georgia could beat the Texans,” insert equivalent teams for any other year) but it’s never true, the level of competition is just too different. The NFL champ used to play the college all-stars in an exhibition game every year and beat the living daylights out of them. Of course the Rockets would torch the NCAA champion.

A lot of those top coaches are evil but filthy rich men. They essentially view their players as slaves. It's no surprise the Alabama Murderers/Tide let Brandon Miller continue playing at the coaches discretion despite Miller texting the other murderer that the gun he's letting him use is in the car with a couple bullets in it. But back to the coaches, they will use any loophole and cheat through acquiring players or paying them off to come to the school. If their grades are bad, strings will be pulled. These greedy pig coaches want all the money for themselves and are probably now jealous of NIL deals becoming a reality. Practically all these top coaches have scandals to their name despite the vast majority of their dirt being covered up through the years. That speaks volumes. But when they're sent packing from school A, school B will gladly take them in for a restart.

As for the basketball itself, it's way better than the nba where players take every second or third night off, rarely play defense and are just present in the games to get their paychecks. These nba players do not give a single damn about the regular season anymore.

Fox should know. He was a 48% field goal shooter who shot 25% from 3 for Kentucky. He choked in his last college game too.

At least they play as opposed to NBA & load management. NzvA is unwatchable.

No one who likes watching quality basketball prefers NCAA over the pros. Sorry.

The NBA is unwatchable. I honestly can not believe its as popular as it is.

The quality of play in the NCAA tournament has gone down, but that's more of a reflection of the whole "me me me" basketball that is played now, the top talent going pro after a year or 2 and the whole AAU crap.

I still enjoy it. At least there is upsets.

Here is someone who can shoot from anywhere.

Hobby Jogger, well start reading criticisms that the ball is smaller.

This March Madness has been awesome. Upsets are great. I love all the people who talk about sports ball year round having busted brackets. I'm still in the top 10% on the site I used and it looks like I might beat my coworkers some of whom are huge sportsball fans.

The real problem with the NCAA basketball tournament is the name: "March Madness." In the year 2023, how can anyone consider it to be remotely acceptable to use a stigmatizing term for mental health conditions as a colloquialism for a sporting event?

Really, that's the problem you see in this world 🌎

Yes, and while we’re at it, let's include the November Numbness that is the NCAA Cross Country Championship. NAU would get 15ed by Bowerman TC.

Its still the best sporting event to view/follow!!

The main problem is that the rules have changed over time to where every team plays "homie ball." If they still called traveling or carrying, the teams would have to play more organized and disciplined. Without organization and discipline it isn't surprising when a #9 homie ball team beats a #1.