不知道你有没有注意到，昨晚大学篮球赛开始了。时间表仍然需要修改。NCAA男子冠军赛在棒球赛季开始之前举行，但世界职业棒球大赛上周结束。如果MLB在季后赛日程上增加更多的休息日，或者NCAA将赛季的开始提前几天，我们将到达天堂(就在CT的布里斯托尔外)，在那里大学篮球和MLB完全重叠，提供全年的运动活动。

无论如何，今年的大学篮球将以2K运动经典开始，它被称为篮球“锦标赛”。I have some old fashioned ideas about how tournaments work. A dated, 20th century notion that in knockout tournaments two teams play a game or a series and the winner advances to the next round while the loser is either eliminated, or perhaps moves to the losers' bracket in some cases (I am open to the idea of a losers' bracket - it works in the College World Series, for example). The problem with my quaint idea of how a tournament should work is that sometimes unexpected events take place - we called them "upsets" back in the day - and a team like Gardner Webb would beat Kentucky at home, advancing to the widely televised later rounds, thus taking up valuable tee-vee exposure and drawing miniscule viewing audiences.

多亏了瞪羚集团的惊人发展，2K运动经典的组织者，那些讨厌的“不安”已经从他们的“比赛”中被淘汰。Here's how it works. The tournament participants are divided into "hosts" (the Big Boys: Syracuse, North Carolina, Ohio State and Cal), and the "others" (Albany, FIU, Alcorn State, Murray State, Robert Morris, NC Central, Detroit and James Madison). In the "Regional Round," the Big Boys play two games each and the others play one game. Regardless of the outcome of these games, the Big Boys "advance" to Madison Square Garden in NYC to play in the Championship Rounds on the Deuce; the other teams move to the "Subregional Rounds" to play additional games in an "undisclosed location" presided over by former vice president Dick Cheney.

据我所知，“锦标赛”比赛将由得分决定。未来，这些比赛的结果应该由所产生的收入大小来决定，这些球队吸引了最多的“支持者”，这是通过发送给Gazelle团队的0.99美元的短信来衡量的。