Worst NCAA tourney ever to this point?

I was just about to say the same thing. This is terrible.

The good teams were really good this year

10 seed Arkansas probably has more blue chip players on their roster than any team left. "Cinderella"

1943 was pretty bad

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Right, but is this the future with NIL and the portal?

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The exact opposite thing people claim is happening in college football and people say this is result of NIL. "SEC not winning 2 nati's in a row is because NIL." "Teams like SMU, Indiana, ND and PSU going further is because NIL." So which is it, does it give lesser teams a chance or make better teams better?

our luck the next games will be better but we'll be asleep by halftime

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"Teams like SMU, Indiana, ND and PSU going further is because NIL."

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I argued this point in another thread, but I’ll repeat here.

SMU benefitted from playing in a shockingly weak ACC. The Big 12 has a power vaccuum with no blue bloods in that conference with Texas and Oklahoma leaving and remaining teams merging with the PAC-12 leftovers. Indiana got about as easy of a draw as possible for a Big Ten schedule and lost the only 2 games they played vs ranked opponents. The only reason either of them were still being talked about in November as playoff hopeful teams was because of the expansion to a 12 team field. Its not that unusual for 1 or 2 traditional mid-bottom tier P4 teams a year to have unexpectedly great seasons and finish at or near the top 10. Only thing that made it different last year was that now those kinds of teams are in playoff contention going 10-2 in a P4

Last year’s unusual teams in playoff contention was more to do with conference realignment and playoff field expansion than more parity created by NIL

It’s pretty boring, to be honest.

The first two games tonight were awful. Ark and Tx Tech not much better. The Duke game might be ok

I guess it depends on whether or not your team is still in it.