It may be absurd to note the innacuracies of an Onion Parody, but I need to point out that this “Sports” story about the NCAA expanding the Field of 64 to 4096 teams is wrong in one area:  that would extend the post-season three weeks and would not get it out of April, and not into the Dick Vitalle parody’s quoted “June Madness”, if we presume the same schedule of single-elimination games that wind it down from 4096 to 2048 to 1024.  From 1024 to 512 to 256.  From 256 to 128 to 64 (or, actually as the case is, 65 — but nobody cares about that weird game to decide which non-major will get thumped by the prohibitive Tournament favorite).  From 64 to 32 to 16.  From 16 to 8 to 4.  From 4 to 2 to 1.  I honestly just don’t understand The Onion’s error in writing up this parody — don’t they have fact-checkers over there?

I think it would make for a fascinating tournament, though, and hope someone tries something like that… just once.  Portland State is in good stead as one of the favorites, being that a 1012 seed has never beaten a 13 seed.  It also scoots Oregon State to its current pathetic but strangely followed by team boosters because the team doesn’t stink in the way it stinked in historic terms last season as coached by Michelle Obama’s brother third rated (out of four) tournament that exists for some strange reason — Oregon State has a 101 seed.

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