Wednesday, April 02, 2025

 

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Something unusual is happening with this year's Final Four in the Men's tournament: All four of the # seeds made it through, the first time that has happened since 2008, and only the second time in the history of the tournament. Kudos to the people who did the seeding-- but it also speaks to the way talent is getting more concentrated in a few schools due to NIL money and the transfer portal.

Tops seeds making it through has historically been more true in the women's tournament, and that was the case this year (with the exception of #2 seed UConn, which won out over #1 seed USC, which was missing their star player, Juju Watkins):


So we are looking at 8 teams left in the two tournaments, and 7 are #1's. This could get kinda boring, huh?


# posted by Mark Osler @ 1:00 AM
Comments:
get used to it. With NIL and the portal, the possibility of a dark horse or even a mid major making it past the round of 32 is going to be next to none.
# posted by Blogger IPLawguy : 10:32 AM
 
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