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March is quite possibly the best time of year. It means the end of usually a cold winter, the coming of baseball season, and oh yes, that little thing that everybody likes to refer to called March Madness. Let's face it, The NCAA tournament could be the greatest invention of Western Civilization, but is it possible that the ncaa tournament could be better?. I believe so.
1. Lose The Play In Game
Somebody tell me one good reason to have the Play In Game in the NCAA tournament except for the fact that it means ESPN shows two less re-runs of last years World Series of Poker. Nobody takes this game seriously. All it is, is a way for the Sports World to poke fun at a smaller school.
For the team that loses the game, they get all the shame of losing in the first round of the tournament, without any of the glory of even making the field. All it means for the team that wins is they get a chance to lay everything on the line, so they can be completely humiliated by the best team in the tournament. Playing this game also means that they have played one more game than the rest of the teams in the field. Nobody thought it was fair when Georgia put on their miraculous run winning three games in two days, but nobody thinks its wrong for these two teams to have to play an extra one. Why should a team that will meet the best team in the tournament be punished with playing an extra day of rest while their opponent gets to sit back and laugh at their feeble attempts to even make the field. The play in game has got to go, for the respect of the smaller schools and for the sake of not making me sit through that two hours of completely boring basketball.

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