This NY Times article contains some amusing and some insightful observations from the first-ever Nevada 16. Some things in her all Bobcats can relate to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/sports/ncaabasketball/a...

I still like the concept of waiting 2-3 weeks to play the first game, and playing it in Las Vegas, a fun place to vacation by most accounts. Not being over the holidays has the advantage of cheaper fares and no place is easier to get to, often with discount airlines and airfares available.

It just seems like it aught to work. It obviously didn't this year though.

Who really wants to see this drek? It's not surprising at all.

Since the primary purpose of this tourney is to make (or not lose much) money, one consideration should be to pick teams whose schools will be on spring break that week.

These are business ventures plain and simple. To make money you need a product to sell and as long as there are advertisement dollars/tourism dollars/participant dollars to fund them, they'll keep popping up. I was reading an article in today's NY Times about Fightball, a one on one basketball sport that reminds me a bit of MMa with the winner getting $100,000 - basically no holds barred basketball. Who would have thunk people would pay to see it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/nyregion/in-fightball-b...