NCAA Championship

Someone please wake me up. I could have sworn that I fell asleep and when I woke up there were no teams from the Big East in the championship. What? You mean it's true?

If your sarcasm detectors haven't already fried, I cannot stand the Big East and all the hype that they get. "Oh, the Big East is the best conference this year." "The Big East has the teams to beat." "It's already a done deal. Either Villanova, Pittsburgh, or UConn will be the champion. No need to even play the game."

So who was in the championship? It was North Carolina from the ACC and Michigan State from the Big 10, which has 11 teams.

What's the deal with the Big East? I actually cannot fault them for the way they manage the conference. See, here's what they did - get a lot of teams in the conference, have the top teams play the bottom teams and next thing you know you have 10 teams with 20 wins. Genius if you ask me.

How many teams are in the Big East? It's difficult to determine. The last time that a statistician was hired to calculate the number of teams, they estimated 45. And of those 45 teams, 27 made the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. It goes without saying that bias and arrogant sports programs, such as ESPN and CBS Sports, favor the Big East.

Furthermore, the analysts criticized the ACC for being weak this year. I think the ACC is similar to the SEC (Southeast Conference). You pack the conference full of good teams and you end up with a tough schedule where the teams have to beat up on each other. If the Big East teams played in a REAL big conference, they'd get their donkey handed to them.

Moreover, prior to the championship game, I didn't hear any analyst, so called expert, predict that Carolina would win. The game was being played in Detroit, home of our government-run car manufacturer, GM, so it was basically a home game for Michigan State. And they were the Cinderella team, the underdog.

When the game was 22-7, I didn't hear too many of them saying that Michigan State was so great. At halftime when Carolina was leading by 21, it sure was quiet. And the best part was at the end of the game when the never-held-accountable analysts said, "I told you Carolina would win. They are the best team and we've been saying it all year." Did you notice how long their noses were growing the more they talked? You could smell it piling up under the broadcast booth from several hundred miles away.

I do not anticipate an apology from CBS for their blatant favoritism, nor for their ridiculous about-face at the end of the game. Instead, you will see all of them telling you how awesome they are for their coverage. Bunch of blow-holes if you ask me. Sort of like Martin O'Malley and the Maryland General Assembly.