Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
That game was just AWFUL. Both teams defenses were good (Note not great). The shooting by both teams was HORRENDOUS. Butler had a ton of open looks. NONE of them fell. UConn wasn't any better shooting the basketball but got away with it due to its superior size/athleticism.

Many have said (and I believe correctly) that this was/is the worst field of teams in the history of the tourny. Perhaps, it was fitting that this perhaps was the worst championship game in history. I certainly cannot recall seeing both the winning and losing teams playing so poorly.
You know, it REALLY pisses me off when you say this is the worst field of teams in history. I mean, WTF? Just because all the #1 and #2 seeds got blasted by teams playing better team basketball, it's the worst ever? Yes, the championship game wasn't exciting. I KNEW it wasn't going to be before it even got started. Why? Connecticut had more size (thus able to switch off on Butler's screens and cause their gameplan to be tough to execute) and Butler plays NASTY defense. It knew it was going to be a low scoring affair (of course, I didn't think they'd shoot as poorly as they did). But you can't tell me that it wasn't exciting to see VCU made the Final Four. That it wasn't intriguing to see Butler win somehow no matter how poorly they played against some pretty good teams.

I'm pretty sure that this year's tournament broke the record for most individual viewers ever for the tournament so I'd hardly say that it was a failure and the worst field in history.

Jesus, and you guys think I over-exaggerate things. :/