March is here. Where is the madness?
We are officially three days into March Madness, and the men’s tournament in well short on one very important ingredient: madness.
Much of the magic of brackets is made in their eventual busting, and so far this year, brackets haven’t been very busted. Or rather, brackets have been busted—but not by crazy upsets where a top seed drops out of the tournament early, but becausehave known to always push a few double-digit seeds through to the Sweet 16, and that’s simply not happening.While this assessment is mostly vibes based, the numbers do back it up to an extent. Things have been awfully chalky to start out the tournament.
Since the bracket expanded in 1985, this is the sixth time that the 1, 2, 3 and 4 seeds all went undefeated in the first round. The others: 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2017. The '94, '00, '07 and '17 tournaments were won by 1 seeds, while the '04 tournament was won by a 2 seed.by No. 10 Arkansas—the upset loses a lot of its luster as soon as you look past the seedings. Can
As another day of mostly chalk unfolded, college basketball fans began to air their frustrations in the form of tweets. This is the most disappointing first two days of March Madness that I can remember. Lots of blowouts, no crazy upsets. Only like 3-5 close games.We still have a full day of action left in the opening weekend of the tournament, and there’s still room for some madness to develop. Could No.
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