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Louisville vs. UNC in Hoops BCS Championship

Filed on March 18th, 2009 in Basketball ⋅ ⋅

Louisville and North Carolina are playing for the title. Why bother playing the tournament?

It was a close one between North Carolina and Memphis for the second slot in the title game, but then I remembered that Memphis only plays in the Conference USA, while North Carolina is in the ACC. Of course, North Carolina didn’t win their conference…but, when in doubt, major conference always trumps mid-major.

So go ahead and rip up your brackets and call back in not-sick to work on Thursday and Friday, there is no need to settle it on the court. Why have a tournament to determine a champion when you can simply crown the best team at the end of the year that happens to play in a major conference?

I mean, that’s how college football is settled, and I’ve never heard anyone complain about that, right?

Here’s your BCS lineup for the college basketball postseason:

BCS Title Game: Louisville vs. North Carolina
Sugar Madness: Memphis vs. Pittsburgh
Fiesta Madness: Duke vs. Missouri
Orange Madness: Mississippi State vs. Oklahoma
Rose Madness: Washington vs. Michigan State

Doesn’t that sound great?

These matchups are based on the college football model. You have your six major conference champions (Pac-10 and Big Ten regular season only, like football), as well as the four at-large teams of Memphis, Pittsburgh, Duke and Oklahoma. Sorry UConn, only two teams per conference.

When put into a different context, it becomes a little clearer just how awful the college football bowl system is. It takes a great regular season and strips it down to a set of arbitrary decisions, rather than real-life games.

The only way to determine a basketball champion is by doing it on the court, and the only way to crown a football champion is to do it on the field.

If the idiots in charge of college football can look at this and still think that they have the best system possible for their sport, then they are even more stupid than I thought.

It feels ridiculous that I even have to make this argument, but sadly, that’s the state of college football these days. It is time for a playoff, and if you can’t recognize that this week, then you are just blind.

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