columbia92
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Posts: 73
Loc: NYC
Reg: 11-22-04
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02-11-05 03:27 PM - Post#3774
In response to Brian Martin
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In a one-bid league, the regular season champ should at least get home court advantage.
The Patriot tournament this year will have the 1 seed host a 4-5, 1-8 doubleheader and the 2-seed host the 3-6, 2-7 games on March 4 (Friday). The winners play at the same sites on Sunday March 6. Then the final is at the highest remaining seed at 4:30 on Friday March 11, a crappy time dictated by ESPN. The Patriot final is on ESPN2 as the filler between sessions of the ACC quarterfinals. ESPN will show a Conference USA semifinal at the same time, followed by Big East semifinals. So the Patriot final gets a poor TV time and maybe 10 seconds of highlights after all the major highlights.
Yes, but they will all point to "being on ESPN".
Given how this board lights up when anyone on ESPN mentions anything Penn without adding State after it (See: Derosa, Mark) perhaps it's not such an anathema.
No recruit outside of Philly watches the Comcast nets. Few outside of the NYC area care about YES. EVERYONE watches ESPN.
That we think "purity" is more important than anything else, spits in the face of ESPN and everything they have done over 25 years.
By the way, the arguments put forward by those who are opposed to an Ivy tournament are the same ones that the BCS conference fans use to denigrate our conference of a whole. I mean, why should Penn, Bucknell and Fairfield even go to the tournament. If they won, it would be a big fluke. After all, North Carolina and Wake Forest commit much more to their basketball programs than Penn. Penn should show more of a committment to basketball to deserve a chance to play for the national title.
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