Gary Parrish takes his shot at the Big 10

Here's the lead item from Gary Parrish's recap of Friday's action:

Story of the day: The Big Ten split a pair of games decided after midnight. Wisconsin beat Florida State 61-59 in overtime about two minutes before Ohio State lost to Siena 74-72 in double-overtime. Of the seven Big Ten schools (Michigan State, Ohio State, Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota) that received bids, just four (Michigan State, Purdue, Michigan and Wisconsin) survived the first round.

This is the story of the day? Not a #13 seed thoroughly handling a #4 seed? Not the fact that of the ACC's seven schools, only three survived the first round? And that all four of those ACC teams that lost were higher seeds, losing to double digit seeds in each case?

I tell you, if the Big Ten sends two teams to the Final Four, we will hear how the other five teams couldn't fill the other two slots. Fortunately, Parrish is being taken to task by several respondents on the cbs sportsline message board for what I laid out above.

Agreed, this year the big 10 is completely under-rated by every network. The big 10 usually goes into the tournament over-rated as a conference, which has been the case for the last 4 years