When your team isn't invited, the Tournament flies by. I mean, to me it seems like the Tournament just started, and yet there'll be a national champion in 6 days.
When your team is invited and advances, the Tourament seems slow. And if they advance to the Final Four, it seems like it takes forever! Every game is pins and needles and takes an eternity.
Still, I'll take the latter scenario every time. Not seeing your team in the Tournament at all sucks balls.
Didn't Einstein use this example to explain relativity?