railing against conference tourneys

My brief, annual tirade:
Conference tournaments are evil. The Hartford women, who already won their league in the regular season, have to play a tourney and lose one of their best players to an ACL. A team like Miami can stink all year, get hot, and end up with a legit chance to make the tourney with one more win. Not only would that get the Canes an undeserved berth, but it would knock another bubble team that spent the year getting close enough to be considered out.
The Quinnipiac men win their league over three months, lose one game and they're out.
I just use these teams as examples, there are numerous others. It drives me nuts. Not to mention that the NCAA doesn't think football players can handle one more game a week after its scheduled bowl because of classes, but it can ask Notre Dame to try and win four straight games in four days in New York.
Ridiculous. And they'll be even more ridiculous next year when they don't matter, because everyone will be in the big dance anyway. Will that stop them from being played? Of course not!
I like them because a team like Central, which lost the regular season title by January, have something to play for. But man, there's a lot of reasons they really tick me off.
Ok, off my soap box.

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