March Madness...Hardly

The college basketball season came to a close last night in a yawner of a game. I actually turned the channel within the first ten minutes of the opening half. My wife of 34 years was astonished to think she'd see me turn off a national championship game. It has never happened in all the years I can remember. So why, last night?. March Madness has turned into March Badness. Last year all four # 1 seeds made it to the Final Four. This year, two #1's. a #2 and a #3. Cinderella has been only a fairy tale. You can count on one hand the exciting games of the entire tournament. Not one last second shot. Hardly an upset. March Madness has gone stale.
Or maybe the college game itself is what's failing us. Unless you have a astronomical budget(money, money money) and belong to major BCS conference, your dreams of cutting down the nets is the fairy tale. You have "NC" and that doesn't stand for North Carolina. The yucks on ESPN think college basketball starts and end with UNC, Duke, UCLA, Indiana, UConn...etc. No other schools should dare join the elite. My Alma mater, Xavier, who's crafted quite a winning tradition for a small Jesuit university just had their head coach bought by the University of Arizona, for the tune of 2.2 Million reasons per year. And it's not the first time that has happened.
So here's my solution, at least for next year. Send all the top four seeds as far away from playing at home as possible, no home court advantages. They have enough already. Limit the number of selections from the major conferences. No .500 or lower in conference record teams allowed. Finally, let's accommodate them at the local Motel 6 and feed them McDonald's. That should be good for a couple of thrilling upsets for next year.