Agreed on the women’s seedings and selections. That looks a problem that needs to be fixed. I do have to say though, regardless of how commercial the tournaments have become, I still get just as excited each March as I did when I was a little kid. The drama and the passion is there in every game. Now, all the stuff surrounding the games — that’s another story. But when the teams are out there on the court, it’s still magic.

The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tourneys are so $$$$$ oriented that I have a problem getting excited about them like I did 30-40 years ago. The women’s seedings and site selections are almost humorous when one considers that this SHOULD be equal competition.

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The way the women’s bracket works is strange because of how they use so many college towns to host games and then try to keep teams close. Thus, if you are hosting a first round site, you can be a lower seed and essentially be playing a home game. I can see why they do it that way…but it certainly provides a disadvantage to higher seeds at certain points in the bracket.

BTW: Utah is deserving of a better seeding than a #9 seed, especially if TCU is a #10. Utah has to travel to Maryland while TCU gets to play in Lubbock, not next to Ft Worth but atleast within a 5-6 hour drive.

History of Mens and Womens NCAA Tournament MOPs

History of Womens NCAA Tournament champions

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I wish we could keep things a little cleaner and not have so much advertising on it. But at the expense of losing revenue, and thus not being able to continue my daily labor of love with MSF, it’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make.

I encourage you to explore our site if you haven’t and read some of the content that is written just to be content, with no extra advertising. I think our team of volunteer writers do a good job of covering interesting and unique stories in the sports world. And we certainly hope that as MSF grows, we can focus more on aesthetics than advertising. But right now, every click-through and every impression helps and allows us to justify the time spent.

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Enjoy the conference tournaments this weekend.