The Huskie beat out the Bulldog...but why?

This last Monday brought a few things our way in regards to the TV. The Rangers won 4 straight (now 5-0 Red Sox who?), Bravo's new show "Pregnant in Heels" (and I thought Joe Millionaire and The Swan were bad), but what most of you were watching was the conclusion to the greatest tournament in all of sports (no I'm not counting the communist World Cup)...The NCAA March Madness Tournament.

The final score of the game (if you want to even go so far to call it that) was 53-41, Uconn Huskies over the Butler Bulldogs.

This by many, including myself, is considered to be one of the worst National Championships of all time..(other than the great story lines of Uconn winning 11 games straight, 5 in 5 days) or (Butler, the small school of 4,000 making it back to the finals for the second straight year)

I would like to propose a few of my own theories as to why the game was for a lack of a better word, a total suckfest.

Theory 1

The tournament is far too long.. they expanded the field from 64 to 68 teams this year, some people even want it expanded further ( I cant blame them I'm greedy to at times, ok most of the time)..When you expand the field all that does is wear on the players more and more, you cant tell me that the Butler plays weren't dead tired by the final. I would argue that they should contract the tournament and some how make the games an even deal. (you know the greedy thing, Superbowl anyone)
I don't know how much truth there is to this one (there athletes, suck it up) but they are students and maybe Quantity isn't always better than Quality (Cici's vs. Texas De Brazil) (easy choice)

Theory 2

This one I feel has a bit more validity than the first... The game was played at Relient Feild in Houston. This is where the Houston Texans play. (yes you read right the Texans of the NFL) (I'm sure they didn't care there is a lock out they don't really need the field for anything) The court that the players played on had to be built from scratch, and the goals were moved in just for final four weekend. When they set up the court and goals everything is measured to the inch, but if the goals are brand new there surly will not be the give in the rim as usual and they will be far tighter than the players are used to. Most goals have hundreds of thousands of shots over the years, these had merely thousands. This is evidenced by the numerous shots that were in the rim and rimmed right out, I mean come on, Butler shot 18% in the final. You don't make it to the final two years in a row shooting 18%. Sure they might have had a bad night but were there other forces impacting the shooting of the players? (Harry Potter maybe..)

Either way the game is done and Jim Calhoun has 3 rings, I wish nothing but the best for him and Kemba Walker as they walk off into the sunset holding hands...

 Guess who's bracket was not correct...