The Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team is in the Big Dance with a 5th seed in the West. They will be playing in Portland, Ore., and if they win their first game they will face the Washington Huskies, a team I've been familiar with this year due to their coverage in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
But I have a beef with the NCAA. Why is there a "West" bracket being played on the east coast? And why does a team like Purdue or Wisconsin have to play two time zones away, but Duke and North Carolina both get to play in North Carolina? Shouldn't the divisions labeled things like "Midwest" and "South" be for teams from those geographical areas?
While I realize that they try not to have a cluster of the top seeded teams play each other in the first rounds because they are in the same division or geographic area, it seems that they should either place every team away from a home court advantage, or go back to keeping everyone home and tough it out.
Think about it, NCAA. If you tried that kind of unequal division in a preschool class, you'd be in time out.
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