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Article: Time to expand NCAA tourney
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 22, 1992
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The NCAA tourney selection committee chairman, Roy Kramer of the SEC
in this case, has got to come up with a better line than "our goal is
to pick the 34 best (at-large) teams to fill out the field," then, in
effect, blaming all indiscretions on a computer.
The operative words are "power ratings, strength of schedule,
strength of conference, blah-blah-blah," which is simply another way
of assuring that the expensive teams, the money-makers, will continue
on in their self-sustaining monopoly.
The Big Eight, we are told, was the best conference this year.
But six teams in the NCAA ...