re: Is this the best tournament in years?

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Add the last minute of these games taking 10 minutes to play and I have to answer No. Not even close.

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Well to be fair, the last minute of CBB have taken a long time to play for a while now. The review process has significantly added to that. If a call can only be overturned by "indisputable" evidence, then it shouldn't take 5-6 minutes to determine whether or not you have such eivdence. If after 2 minutes of looking at the replay you still can make a determination, then you DON'T have insdisputable evidence.

It's also time to start taking a few TOs away as well. Each team gets 4 per half (5 in the first) plus 4 media TOs.

My suggestion: 2 media TOs (under 12:00 and 4:00) and 4 TOs per half (2 full, 2 30 second) Also, no team can call back to back TOs without putting the ball in play. Less TOs also rewards a good defensive play because players are going to be more reluctant to just call a TO when they're trapped, can't inbound the ball, falling out of bounds, etc.

It's time to start getting some flow back into the game. The Whichita St./UK was great. The UA/Wisc and UA/SDSU game (while both tight at the end) were miserable to watch all the way through. UA and Wisc are very well coached and play outstanding defense, but it was painful to watch both teams be so diliberate on offense and pass up good shots early in the possession for the sake of working the shot clock down. IMO, CBB should reduce the shot clock to 29 seconds to force teams to get into their offense alot quicker.