The Gavinski Award is a weekly award given to the team with the worst performance in college basketball over the past seven days.  It is presented in honor of J.P. Gavinski, the most useless player in Division 1 basketball.

 NCAA

With unconfirmed reports that the NCAA Tournament will be expanding to 96 teams as soon as next year, the NCAA has caught quite a bit of hell this week.  They deserve every bit of criticism.  Is the current 64 (I refuse to acknowledge the BS play-in game) team tournament perfect?  No, but it is by far the best postseason in sports.  There is an old adage that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" but this goes far beyond that.  This isnt tinkering, it is a guaranteed dilution and devaluation of a wildly successful franchise.  This is only about money, and it is so transparent that it becomes almost sad.  Our biggest argument is with the setup of the tournament.  Right now, other than telling the #64 and #65 teams to bend over and take it, every team has to win the same number of games in order to win the national championship.  A 96 team field would introduce byes into the tournament, and only very stupid people will think that the decision on who gets the byes will be fair.  And even though a larger overall number of mid majors will get into the tournament, the percentage of the tournament they make up isnt necessarily going to go up, and they will still get hosed by even worse BCS conference teams than before.  Introducing another round of BS into the selection and seeding process will ruin the game.  Hopefully this is just a trial balloon that will be shot down by public outcry, much like leaks of terrible government policy ideas that never see the official light of day.