Okay it's all over and I want to vent a little. Yeah, my team didn't win but as I look back at it it seems like the selection committee did Hope no favors. How does the #1 team in the country, in fact how do any of the top 4 teams in the country wind up in the same brackets in the tournament? To my way of thinking there is no way that Hope and Howard Payne should have been placed in the same bracket. Those two teams were the odds on favorites in most everyone's eyes to meet for the championship in the final four. Instead they played in the sectional finals and played like two championship teams should, a close, hard-fought battle not decided until the final minute of play. That is what should have unfloded in Holland. The committee missed an opportunity here. They could have set the tournament up to pit the top teams in the final four and odds are that Hope would have been there and they would have garnered a packed house each of the two nights. How does that thinking work? They claim it has something to do with geographical location but the sectional tournament had a school from Texas, Michigan, Oregon and Pennsylvania so that theory flies right out the window. Had this been an odd year Hope would have hosted the sectional but would the same four schools have congregated in Holland prior to the Final Four?...I doubt it.
Okay, I have vented.
Okay, I have vented.