Opinion
March 12, 2026

Henry’s Pressing Issue

I’ve always been drawn to March Madness. It’s meant to be the antithesis of logical thought. The person who wins your bracket will not have watched college basketball in five years. With that person in mind, I come at the latest crop of college basketball math nerds with pure aggression.

After playing through a perfect regular season, it has become a legitimate debate whether Miami (OH) has earned a spot in the NCAA tournament. They have won every game on their schedule, with one of the highest average margin of victories in the sport, but their strength of schedule hasn’t been good. Oh no, guess their season was over before it started. Better hope you end up playing some better teams next year.

On one hand, in any logical world Miami has at least earned their spot in the tournament. More importantly, I don’t care whether they’re good enough to justify a high seed. The spirit of March Madness is watching bigger number seeded teams beat lower seeded  ones, and freaking out when it happens as if you’ve never seen an upset happen in sports before. Give undefeated Miami (OH) the one seed, and just see what happens.

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