Brainless basketball bureaucracy

Sorry for the alliteration, but I couldn't help myself. I was going to say stupid, but it's much cooler with a B-word up front.

Apparently, for reasons no one seems to know, and despite the fact that there was a graduate student league this year and there's been a graduate student league and tourney for the past umpteen years, there won't be one this year. So, instead of being in a 12-team tourney with a bye, we are now in a 300-gadjillion (is that the correct spelling of gadjillion?) team tourney, and we may or may not have a bye. The whole point is that championship games are played in Assembly Hall, and quite frankly, that would be a dream. So, what are the odds of making it through a 12-team tourney when you're already 3-0 against a random sampling of teams (and in two of those games, we were minus a starter)....and compare those to the odds of making it through a 300-gadjillion team tourney when you're 3-0 against a not-so-random sampling of teams. And I could already imagine myself on the sacred ground that is Assembly Hall...