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Some Championship Series Tweaks

Playoffs are interesting things. Ostensibly, they exist so that the best team will eventually prevail. But, all too often, in some playoff schemes teams that are undeserving get in. In others, a lucky score determines the champion. Every year, it seems, some situation arrives that makes me wonder if there might not be a better way.

Maryland Lady Terps Win 2009 ACC Tournament

It was another battle to save in the vault between the Terps and the Blue Devils. Though this was the first time they met in the ACC Tournament finals, it wasn’t their first meeting in a final in their history. But, as in the 2006 NCAA Championship game, Maryland toughed it out for a hard-won win (Duke 89 – MD 92).