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Pssst, hey dumbfuck, Pitt and Xavier can't meet in the regional final. And he picked two Big East teams in the final game? SHOCKER. When was the last time that even happened, anyway?

God, why can't ESPN just bury this fool once and for all? Take Lou Holtz with him, please.

The last time two conference teams played for the NCAA title was 1988 when Kansas beat Oklahoma. The Big East had two teams in 1985.

But yeah, Pitt and Xavier can't play in the Regional Final.

He must be back to sniffing his highlighters heavily again.

In his world, no team exists outside the Eastern Time Zone or better known as ESPN Sphere of Influence.

Arch Angel wrote:In his world, no team exists outside the Eastern Time Zone or better known as ESPN Sphere of Influence.

Digger's Big East bias is pretty out there, but wholly expected. ESPN as a whole however has been riding the Big Ten pretty hard, obviously in large part due to the BTN.

I don't need everybody to wax praise about the Big Ten, but constantly using terms like awful, terrible, no offense, etc., to describe a 7 bid league is pretty ridiculous. Call it overrated if you want, but terrible? Give me a break.

I think a lot of it too is they just don't want to hype teams to Average Joe Basketball Fan who "play boring." 60-55 games just aren't suitable for highlight reels and roundtable discussions. Better programming does not = designed half court plays with ball movement and shot clock drainage leading to backdoor layups. 40 yard sprints back and forth with monster dunks is where it's at. What many of them fail to mention though is how often Big Ten teams are able to either A) match their out of conference opposition's high scoring outputs or B) force the opposition to play their slowed-down tempo. It seems silly to talk about the Big Ten's "lack of offense" when it's not about some sort of inability, but about preferred style. I'll give Jay Bilas some credit though for still trying to give some objective analysis on shows that are completely ratings-driven.