The Dumbest Tradition: The NCAA Tournament Is Getting Destroyed For Announcing The National Title Game Will Tip At 8:50pm On A Monday

Mission accomplished! You see that, bullying works. Every year we all complain about how dumb it is that college basketball's national title game starts after 9pm Eastern. Every year it's the same thing. So they heard us and moved it up a whole 30 minutes. Now it at least starts at 8:50, which is still asinine. I don't understand how we live in a world where college football can start their national title at 7:30, the Super Bowl is at a perfect kick time, but college basketball? 8:50. 

I don't give a shit about the West Coast. It doesn't matter for the 7:30 Ohio State/Notre Dame national title game. Even better is this tweet trying to do a victory lap. Look! We heard you! 30 minutes earlier. Instead everyone is quote tweeting, replying, still bitching about how dumb it is. I don't even care about the Monday tip time, I live a fake life in terms of work. But starting a national title game later than Monday Night Football is asinine. It's not like college basketball games are fast either, the last 2 minutes of a game takes roughly 35 minutes alone with the fouls and reviews. Refs can't make one call on the court without going to the monitor. 

At least we bullied them into doing something smart this week: 

Every game should be this way with a 30 minute buffer. Just look at this past Saturday. Kansas/Houston was in double OT, Auburn/Tennessee had just tipped. Do you think people want to leave the double OT game for the start of a game? No. But people still want to see a top-10 matchup. Just build the 30 minute buffer, we like it, we promise. We don't need it just because ESPN wants the Duke/UNC coverage AND Cal's entrance at Rupp. We want it every week.