March Madness has been taken to a new level. Now there are just too many tournaments. Old Dominion should just say “no thanks” to the new CollegeInsider.com tournament. Does this make ODU the best of the rest, of the rest, of the rest?

This is like John Travolta doing Battlefield Earth. Just because they offer it doesn’t mean you have to take it.

Lets face it, if your not good enough for the NCAA or the NIT or even the CBI, than maybe its time to pull the plug on the season. Just think if all goes well, the Monarchs will win a tournament nobody has ever heard of. Or the Monarchs season will officially come to an end after losing to Ocala Cosmotology College. Even Digger Phelps knows the Fighting Flattops are the champions of the Central Florida Vocational Conference.

I guess ODU has Lefty Driesell to thank for this latest honor. Lefty was on the selection committee and put a good word in for the hometown team.

Sure there are some positives about seeing the season continue. The young players get more experience. ODU can write in the program that the team made the post season again and the most important reason of all, we all get to dance one more time to “Ice cream and Cake!”

The big winner in all of the looks like the C-B-I. With teams like St. Johns, Stanford and Nevada, the C-B-I actually looks like a decent tournament.

So while the rest of the nation is gripped with the excitement of the NCAA tournament, ODU will be scaling the mountain top of the C-I-T. Look out Flattops, here come the Monarchs!