Four reasons make us exaggerate the reaction of Cinderella teams that advance to Sweet 16.
Every year, there is a story that develops from the first week of the NCAA championship that dominates the national sporting conversation of those three days that separate the second round and Sweet 16. It usually resumes on Thursday, and the focus returns to the stadium, and the “big story” from the week that has already turned into endless discussions around the last four before its disappearance forever.
The big story in the first week this year may have a little longer.
The topic, of course, is Nil and the transmission gateway to the Cinderella teams of dance, and the resulting issue about whether it will return or not.
Looking at the results of the first week, the conversation was not inevitable.
Not only did the Power Conference Supreme conference during the opening week of the tournament, but rather, is on a historical level.
Each seed of the first four of the first round of the championship has advanced for the first time since 2017 and the fourth time in the modern era of the event. The average victory margin in the 64 round was the highest ever.
The madness became more predictive in the second round, with a zero teams higher than the tenth applicant to the second weekend of the tournament for the first time since 2007. Energy conference teams are a total of Sweet 16 for the first time ever, and the lowest record of only four total conferences (the most powerful) at the weekend of the second weekend is represented. The previous depression was seven conferences.
The Big Ten won the first 10 games of the tournament. No conference did so before. SEC sent seven teams to Sweet 16. No conference was done before.
Simply put, The Haves of the Sport has dominated this year’s championship at unnoticed levels.
The easy conclusion of all of this is the simplest: two conferences with more money than any two conferences in the history of college sports. The financial gap between the energy conferences and the main intermediate/low conferences was not significant. The conversion rules and new rules opened the door for schools with all the money to get the best players, the best coaches and the best everything on an annual basis.
TLDR: Cinderella is already dead. The 2025 Championship is the first time that everyone can see the body.
The idea that many of the semi -final of the SEC against Big Ten regional and closest to Cinderella is that it is a group of the previous five stars that John Calibari will be the new natural in university basketball may be completely accurate. But let’s take a look at the reasons why this is an exaggerated reaction.
Reason 1: It is one year
Certainly the gate and NIL have grown more importantly since their construction, but it is not as if they were not in the previous two years.
We are just lower than 24 months than watching the fifth seed of San Diego state team West Mountain The ninth seed of the United States Conference of the United States of America are fighting in the final. That tournament also witnessed the second 16 -year -old, more than an upset in the history of the championship, Furman Stun Virginia in The Buzzer in the first round, and 15 bits of Sweet 16 collision.
A year later, we have Yale, Grand Canyon, James Madison and Oakland pulling the amazing first round. Three of these four come against opponents of the Authority Conference.
We may need to wait for the evidence that exceeds one of the single championships to extract any comprehensive conclusions about the future of March Madness in this new era.
Reason 2: It comes to unifying conferences like anything else
Many of four conferences were represented on the second weekend of the tournament. This is a concept. The fact that the previous record was seven is Jarring.
It is also important to note that only four conferences are represented are also at least partially due to the latest assistance in reorganizing the conference.
Two years ago, Byu He was a member of the West Coast Conference. Two years ago, Houston was a member of the American Sports Conference.
Both programs, especially Houston, were working well in their old homes.
Reason 3: One shot, one inch, one call can change a full narration
The “Cinderella dead” points that have already been screaming loudly.
However, imagine a scientist where another snapshot in Derek Quinn in Maryland is five inches away, and the edge instead produces beautifully by the bank on the network (or … and do not throw anything in my face here … he called for travel). In this very realistic world, the existence of Colorado is expelled immediately, “There is no team that is worse than the tenth” and “No team from a non -strong conference.”
The championship of the chamashri is still a doubt, but “we have seen the end of the main turmoil in this event” a discussion point that loses a little steam.
Reason 4: This is not exactly unnatural as everyone makes it
When you hear “the first championship without an average middle -aged team in 16 billion years,” it is certain, it has attracted attention.
When you look a little closer and see that the only “Mid-MAJOR” on the second weekend of 2016 and 2017 championships was Gonzaga, and that the only “Mid-MAJORS” on the second weekend of the 2019 championship was Zags and Houston, well, a little less.
The senior players dominate the second weekend this year, but the big players took control of the second weekend in most years.
Finally, just because we had no advance from 13 to 16 this year does not mean that young men were completely hit. This tournament still witnessed two teams of Mountain West Advance in the same year for the first time since 2010, and the state of McNees from Southand Topple Clemson from ACC, and Drake Bulldogs from Wadi Missouri falls Missouri from Big, Bad SEC.
In some years, madness is a little more sane than others.
Is Cinderella really dead? maybe. There is definitely evidence to support belief. But this guide is largely rooted in the results of four days of basketball.
Perhaps it is just a break.