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...seed opens with No. 8, No. 2 with No. 7, and so on. Should an eight-seed, one which posted anywhere from an 0-14 to 4-10 league record, be able to get hot for three games and take the league’s coveted automatic bid to the NCAA tournament? How about a seven-seed with a slightly better, say, 5-9 record...
...back to the tournament formats. With a six-team tournament, the same logic applies. A team that goes 6-8 or 7-7 in conference, probably shouldn’t be able to get hot for three days and steal the NCAA tournament bid. It may be a little easier to accept a .500 team in league play sweeping to the title, but still it seems somewhat unfair to reward a weekend hot streak that comes on the heels of a mediocre season...
Narrowing the tournament field to three or four, however, makes it more difficult to lodge the “unworthy” complaint. Sure an 8-6 four-seed might be unjustified in taking the automatic bid away from a 13-1 or 14-0 No. 1 seed, but what about a 10-4 third-place team taking the automatic bid away from a 12-2 league winner. While a 13-1 or 14-0 record shows a significant talent gap compared to an 8-6, how much better can we say that the 12-2 team is than...
...eccentric methods of dealing with questions relating to athletics, maybe it could break new ground by creating an amalgamation of the two, where, let’s say, all teams with at least a 9-5 or 10-4 record qualify for a conference tournament to decide the automatic bid. In terms of this season, such a rule would keep a Penn squad that has clearly distanced itself from the competition from having to chance its NCAA hopes on a given weekend. In other seasons, when the true “best” team isn?...
...infamous memo” was not forgotten, however. According to a January 1993 article in the Economist, Vice President Al Gore ’69’s decision to veto Summers’ bid to chair the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton Administration was a direct result of the memo—and the Journal’s Alan Murray, who has since become an assistant managing editor at the paper, says that most of Summers’ image problems can be traced back to that one incident...