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‘Maddening’ Madness sets bar for future CFP
from 4-13-23 Villager
by The Villager
The maddening Madness of 2023 is now history.
Finally! say all whose brackets were busted before the tournament reached the Elite Eight.
By the way, how many of the teams you picked made the Final Four? Thought so.
Did you pick Florida Atlantic, San Diego State or Miami to win it all? UConn?
The Huskies indeed played like champions—winning six games by an average margin of 20 points. Amazing for a team that tied for fourth place in its conference in the regular season, but typical for this year’s tournament.
Huntington Acres
This version of March Madness was the most unpredictable, and among the most exciting, NCAA men’s basketball national championship tournament ever, though disappointing and unsatisfying if you’re into favorites.
It included:
Two winners from the First Four (Pitt and Fairleigh Dickinson, which wouldn’t have made the tournament if Northeast Conference champion Merrimack had completed its transition period to Division I) upsetting their first-round opponents in the round of 64!
Cinderellas vying for the glass slipper—FDU, which lost the battle of acronyms to those Owls from FAU (Florida Atlantic University), and the Ivy Leaguers from Princeton, who surprised two states, Arizona and Missouri!
