Hey NCAA, No Need to Stop at 96
Possibly Expanding the Tournament by Nearly 50% Is a Cop-Out; Let’s Let Everyone in
Ever go to a friend’s 45th birthday party, and somebody decides it’d be a swell idea to jam 45 candles on the birthday cake, and the first 10 candles fit nice and orderly, but by the time you’re wedging the 43rd and 44th candle into the cake, the surface is crammed like a subway car, and you can no longer see the icing, much less the pretty HAPPY BIRTHDAY written in cursive, and when you light it, it ignites like a Viking funeral pyre, and when you carry it out to the living room, your 45-year-old friend appears completely horrified, with a look that says: “I love you guys, but why are you singing and sticking a scary giant fireball in front of my face?”
That’s how we feel about a 96-team NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
USAToday.com
3/16/10
