Wow, that was refreshing to experience the last three days of NCAA Tournament, with one more great slate on tap today. The Oral Roberts story likely takes top spot but we’ve seen Loyola put on a clinic in downing Illinois, Virginia and Purdue making their typical early exits, and quite a few tight games and overtimes. But having watched now 43 games (no Oregon-VCU) over the course of four days, one thing seemed to be a pretty constant theme in most of these games: the quality of college basketball right now is very poor. A couple things really stood out:
1: A WHOLE LOT OF BRICKS WERE THROWN UP
I’m sure this stat is out there somewhere but that had to be one of the worst shooting first two rounds of an NCAA Tournament in history.