Your mistake for thinking this is a showcase. It’s a championship tournament. Play the best to win. Cut roster down to 20 and 2 weaker players are gone. Makes everything easier. You play to win the game. The Grizzlies did.
Somebody should have told the LI coaches that. I think they wanted to make sure all the 24s had an equal chance to play in front of the college coaches. Because, we all know the college coaches do not care about the scores.
The Grizzlies did play to win. They started by putting themselves in the B bracket to play weaker teams to get to the finals. That wasn’t fair to the B bracket teams or the tournament . That shouldn’t have been allowed! Shame on them. Steps did it to. At least LI played in the hardest bracket right from the start.
