Where’s the March Madness? Making sense of the NCAA Tournament’s Cinderella shortage

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Cleveland-Robert Morris goalkeeper, who was leaving one with less than eight minutes, tried a shot by Alabama goalkeeper Mark Cepers, and sent the first team from America to the ground and the ball that comes out of the border. Then Decrson, the defensive player in the horizon league who was suddenly assigned and who scored 25 points on Friday, went up to Celes, and he was not Allen Everson over Tiron Louis, and put on the crowd.
Thousands responded to their approval, a crowd of Robert Morris Dihads, who made a trip from Pittsburgh, which was paid by a yard of new fans who adopted the weak.
After seconds, the 15 seeds of the colonists harnessed this momentum, as they occupied one point on the tide of the crimsus. For one moment, the game felt that it was heading to David-Ghobout, classic, things I am crazy The montage is made of.
Instead, Alabama exploded on a 6-0 fast run and never looked back, leading to a victory of nine points.
The story of the 64th round was in this year’s NCAA Championship. For the first time since 2017, no team has reached less than 12 to Saturday from the first weekend.
Only five dual seeds have advanced over the past two days: Two No. 10, No. 11 and two No. 12. (And from these 12 extravagance, Colorado was a teenage preferred. 1 Purdue and 15 Prinston, which reached dessert 16.
The fact that most of the games were not particularly close to the early shortage of this year in March Magic, either: only four of 32 games were identified from the first round through two or less properties, and the least since 1997. We got a couple of excitement in the first four games in Dayton, but Thursday and Friday were significantly light on Madness.
So what is the deal? Is it one year deviation? Or is it-like everything else in college sports these days-a referendum on energy-staging energy conferences, or the malicious influence of name, image and money like the gate that you hold fully?
AthleteCJ Moore and Brendan Marks in reality Expect this In their arc options earlier this week, going out in front of any commentators looking to decorate them to play safely. As both explained, advanced standards He referred to a high -heavy group of number 1s And other high seeds, which are manifested in court.
This may end as a good omen for the second and third weekend holidays, leading to the creation of some high -border matching. Modern history, including the year 2015, refers to a relatively highest level, that this is just a product of the natural basketball sessions. But it is still a kind of problem.
The joy and beauty of the NCAA championship lies in these unpredictable early disorders, which we can all launch from memory. FDU on Bordeaux. Umbc on Virginia. Lahi over your roots. St. Peter on Kentucky. Bucknell on Kansas. Cinderella is what makes March very special, which makes this person feel an early hollow.
“Sometimes I hate them,” he said Michigan State Coach Tom Iso, who lost up to 15 seeds in Tennessee in 2016. “But most of the time, I love them … everyone loves Cinderella. Everyone loves the weak. Everyone loves the little school. This is the difference with the NCAA basketball championship compared to any other session there.”
Minutes after hitting the watch in the middle of the night, literally and metaphorically, in the first round, I avoid another Izzo of those unforgettable moments. Spartns, classified, turned into narrow five -point lines through 15 seeds to Bryant at 25 points, which is a cup of appropriate to a 64th round. He was then asked about the ability to predict the first round in general, ISO, trained in his twenty -seventh championship respectively, most of which ignore it, and indicates that seed that caused 5 seeds. The man has seen this throughout this time of the year, and he is not ready to provide any warning devices so far.
It may be right. March Madness is one of the greatest sports gifts, even if the glass slippers are not perfectly suited this time. Perhaps the rest of the bow will compensate for it as well.
But this will not change the fact that one of the moments of this tournament came a few hours before Michigan’s state of court took the Cleveland, when Robert Morris – the new favorite team in America – had the great Alabama over the ropes.
And almost something more.
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