iowabillmichael
Member
First, there were 16 teams--you had to actually win your regular season conference championship to get in. Imagine that. Then the NCAA went to 32 teams, then 48, then 64, now 68. So here's what should happen next -- next year, in fact:
[FONT=&]There’s an easy way to eliminate the post-season angst in college basketball:
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[FONT=&]1 –Abolish all conference tournaments. Return some luster to winning the regular season title.
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[FONT=&]2 –Start the NCAA tourney one week earlier.
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[FONT=&]3 –Top 256 teams are in. (Let’s hear #257 cry they were deserving… About 100 teams don't make it.) Top 256 determined by adding all the computer rankings, except the RPI, which is abolished. Done.
4 - After the first round, you're down to 64, essentially the same number of teams we have now.
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[FONT=&]5 –NIT field is filled from the teams knocked out in round 1.
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[FONT=&]Thiswould be so much more fair and would give some good teams who have a bad game a second chance in theNIT. No good reason not to do it, and the best reason to do it would be to putan end to the biased, brainless, boneheaded Selection Committee. If we’re goingto have an NCAA tournament, let’s play it on the court instead of in the tiny minds of selection committee members using idiotic measures like the RPI.
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[FONT=&]There’s an easy way to eliminate the post-season angst in college basketball:
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[FONT=&]1 –Abolish all conference tournaments. Return some luster to winning the regular season title.
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[FONT=&]2 –Start the NCAA tourney one week earlier.
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[FONT=&]3 –Top 256 teams are in. (Let’s hear #257 cry they were deserving… About 100 teams don't make it.) Top 256 determined by adding all the computer rankings, except the RPI, which is abolished. Done.
4 - After the first round, you're down to 64, essentially the same number of teams we have now.
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[FONT=&]5 –NIT field is filled from the teams knocked out in round 1.
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[FONT=&]Thiswould be so much more fair and would give some good teams who have a bad game a second chance in theNIT. No good reason not to do it, and the best reason to do it would be to putan end to the biased, brainless, boneheaded Selection Committee. If we’re goingto have an NCAA tournament, let’s play it on the court instead of in the tiny minds of selection committee members using idiotic measures like the RPI.
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