Play-in? Someone's play-ing with themselves too much if they think it's a good idea.

The NCAA Tournament play-in game is bullshit.

The NCAA would prefer we call it an "Opening Round" game. Eat shit, it's a play-in no matter how you try to pass it off.

Why do we need 34 at-large teams? We can't survive with 33? A team that earned it's way in via an automatic bid has to play a shitty game on a shitty Tuesday in shitty Dayton (note: I don't know if Dayton is shitty, it's probably not in reality but it is when they stick the shitty game there) so that a mediocre team from a "power" conference can get in?

Did we need Villanova in the tournament that badly? Outside of Villanova students, alums, faculty, and some rich snobby cunts on the Main Line, who really wants to see them there?

Let Coppin State and Mount St. Mary's take their nationally televised ass-rapings and be done with it. Do you think Coppin State's Tywain McKee will be telling his grandkids about the time they beat Mount St. Mary's in what amounts to a fake tournament game, or North Carolina and Tyler Hansborough rolling their asses? Opposing teams at the 1992 Olympics were excited to get crushed by the Dream Team (too bad the next few USA teams felt like that would continue) and had stories they could tell forever.

Ditch the play-in game.