It can't be that simple, that academic, that cut and dried. How can you put 64 teams in the NCAA Tournament, play nearly a month of games and have the best team in the country win the whole thing. This is the NCAA Tournament.
Nothing goes as it's supposed to.
The NCAA Tournament, especially the first round, remains one of sports' most dramatic and entertaining affairs. But there is an air of resignation about this tournament, a feeling that everybody else is playing for second behind those blasted Blue Devils. Duke is just too good this season. Too deep, too strong, too poised, too confident. It's easily the best team in the country and probably the best the NCAA has seen since that Nevada-Las Vegas squad in 1991.