Alabama/Tennessee winner to dance?

Will the winner of the Alabama/Tennessee go to NCAA?

It's setting up to look that way...

 

Part of the Selection Committee

         Those who claim to have expertise in the NCAA bracket selections are saying that Kentucky and Tennessee have gained a spot in the Tournament.  Alabama is one of the first four standing in  line hoping for a ticket for a sold out dance. That's strange to me considering that Alabama beat both teams in the regular season.  The Tide lost to Tennessee on a disputed and laughable no-call that would have allowed a different outcome.  Like I said after that game, such things never even out do they ?  So much for beating Kentucky when Noel was in the lineup. Take nothing from Kentucky in their win over Florida. Truth is that Florida is just slightly better than your average team. Florida's road record isn't lighting up any Las Vegas neon signs.

 

          Luckily, for Alabama they have a chance to change that if Tennessee beats the winner of  game one of the tournament between Mississippi State and South Carolina. I'm not sure they will but surely they should. That means that the Vols will meet Bama on Friday afternoon. It seems fair that the winner of this game goes to the NCAA Tournament. That would be fair most fans standards.  Fair by the NCAA is another matter entirely. Fair would be saying that Alabama finished second in the SEC as did Kentucky.  Alabama beat Kentucky when they faced off earlier in the season. That is  not the NCAA idea of fair. Kentucky and Tennessee are ahead of Alabama by the slimmest of margins. Tennessee and Kentucky split in the regular season. Let's see - Kentucky and Tennessee beat each other, as did Alabama and Tennessee.  We beat Kentucky. They didn't beat us. Apparently, head to head means little if nothing. True, the Wildcats played a lot of good teams. They lost to all of them. To recap.

• Duke
• Notre Dame
• Baylor
• Arkansas
• Alabama
• Texas A&M
• Louisville
• Florida
• Tennessee

         If Kentucky played a good team they lost. The NCAA's "logic" is that even though Kentucky beat Florida and we didn't, beating Kentucky head to head is not important. I'm sorry, that is just crazy talk. I'm really happy that Kentucky scheduled teams that were good and lost to everyone of them. So the threshold question seems to me - is it more important who you lost to than who you beat in head to head competition. And you wonder why I think the NCAA field should include everyone in the NCAA? A couple of extra games, and all this non-sense about quality losses, RPI, BPI, and the like could just RIP. All this RPI non-sense means you can lose a game and gain points. You can win a game and lose points. I'm not the smartest guy in the State of Alabama but I'm not the village idiot. Alabama won two games against opponents that beat Kentucky. Kentucky won a single game against a team that beat us.

 

       I wonder if Alabama actually beats Tennessee will the Tide slip in the field?