Does it Pay to Be Tall in the Tourney?

Before the season started, the word from around the league was that the Pac-10 was going to be the best conference this season- hands down. Of course, the ACC also has some good teams, and the Big East might just take the cake this year. However, the theory of why the Pac-10 was going to be great still might hold true. Big guys make you better. And the Pac-10 had a lot of good big guys. Take, for example, Stanford, which boasts two of the biggest centers in the college game, the Lopez twins. UCLA has their tall freshman center/forward, Kevin Love. Across the country the Tar Heels and the Hoyas are winning a lot of games behind the interior presence of Psycho-T and Roy Hibbert, respectively.

So does size matter? Other teams will tell you it doesn’t. Check out the article on this subject at SportsIllustrated.com. While some teams have good size and can use that as their go-to method for getting wins, others know they aren’t tall and don’t try to be. Duke, for example, relies on speedy wing players and a backcourt with guards who can shoot and drive. They don’t pound the ball down low, but they have still won plenty of games. The Tourney will settle this debate.

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