Agreed. The JAR sucks for the casual followers. It's great for the basketball die-hards. You're near the court, have good sight lines outside of the first few rows up top. And it gets loud as heck when there's a nice crowd.
I mean think about it:
Illinois State
Valpo
Monmouth
Belmont
Northern Iowa
MTSU
UT Arlington
Oakland
UNCW
Charleston
FGCU
You can't tell me we couldn't line up a home and home or two from that list
To play devil's advocate, the thinking of not rewarding the top 2 seeds too is that the hottest team gets in the tournament, not necessarily the best. Sometimes the hotter team has the better chance of an upset. See OU's run
Agreed! I posted somewhere on here KD should have been on the phone with them the minute that was posted. There are a lot of upper level mid majors that are in the same position who could use the games.
Houston is a good team. 12-6 in the AAC is nothing to scoff at. It's nice to see we could compete in a conference like that. So while I don't think that was a great example, I do agree that the smaller schools do generally get the shaft. Maybe Bakersfield will win and we'll get a home game with a trip to MSG on the line?
This is a good point. Besides the fact that it was nice for our H-Town players to get a win in their hometown, what a better way to help recruiting than to beat the hometown team in their backyard?
I'll be honest I thought our main hope was Houston playing uninspired after missing the tournament and our Houston kids lighting it up with a chip on their shoulder.
Houston played good. We're just a better team. Unfortunately a performance like that on Saturday would have meant a double digit win over Kent. Oh well.