[Hulk01]

Repeating my complaint: five player, 18 hole match play to determine the college national champion suffers from a sample size issue.

USGA championships are 36 holes. Regular pro tournaments are 72.

Stanford's Salina/Wu championship team produced a lovely ending, but I never considered that team the NCAA champion, other than in name.

The NCAA match play format produces exciting tv not because it identifies the best team. but because it so often rewards an. underdog: great theater, lousy discrimination.

[Hulk01]

Repeating my complaint: five player, 18 hole match play to determine the college national champion suffers from a sample size issue.

USGA championships are 36 holes. Regular pro tournaments are 72.

Stanford's Salina/Wu championship team produced a lovely ending, but I never considered that team the NCAA champion, other than in name.

The NCAA match play format produces exciting tv not because it identifies the best team. but because it so often rewards an. underdog: great theater, lousy discrimination.