Over the past two years, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has had many surprising upsets that keep you on your toes every second. Last season, Not a single top seeded team reached the final four. Instead it was filled by VCU, a team that was not expected to even win their first game, Butler who had a surprise run in 2010 and was back again in 2011, Kentucky who was ranked at a four and had to upset two teams to get into the final four, and Connecticut, a team that struggled during the season but won their conference tournament to earn a 3 seed in the tourney. This season (2012) had two 15 seeds knockout out 2 seeds for the first time in NCAA history. Those teams were Lehigh over Duke and Norfolk State over Missouri.The upsets keep stacking on.

This leads me to wonder if a tournament with 68 teams really helps decide what is the best team. Many of the better teams have seemed to be upset by Cinderella’s and teams that only got in because they won their conference tourney. Some conferences don’t have teams that are that good so it seems unfair that they have just as much chance to win it all as a team that has to face harder teams all year long. Teams like that have never actually won but they still have a shot and when it does happen people may argue the unfairness of the tourney. Nonetheless I enjoy watching it every year. It is still an enjoyable bunch of weekends so don’t miss it.

~Andrew Levy