Making NCAA BBall Tourney is a fall back position

[eyekwah]

After reading Jon Miller's piece about whether it is better to get a six seed rather than the five seed for the B1G tourney it appears the idea of actually winning a regular conference championship does not carry much weight anymore. Caring more about what is better for a tourney seed over where you finish in the conference standings is just nuts. I want Iowa to win out in the regular season, I feel that finishing among the top four is a better accomplishment than whatever they do in the B1G tourney.

There are 72 teams that make the NCAA tournament. If a team makes it in they are still just 1 of 72 teams that can make that claim. So if a team is not a regular conference champion they have this fall back position to go to, which is the NCAA tourney. It has been way too long since Iowa last won or tied for the BBall conference championship and each season we have accepted the consolation prize of a NCAA tourney bid when the record warrants it. It is time to realize the NCAA is nothing more than a big three weekend tournament for about 45 second place or more teams.

 

[TritonHawkeye]

Well Jon did write the article this week. Not sure if you have seen the standings but a regular season championship is off the table.

 

[WindsorHawk]

After reading Jon Miller's piece about whether it is better to get a six seed rather than the five seed for the B1G tourney it appears the idea of actually winning a regular conference championship does not carry much weight anymore. Caring more about what is better for a tourney seed over where you finish in the conference standings is just nuts. I want Iowa to win out in the regular season, I feel that finishing among the top four is a better accomplishment than whatever they do in the B1G tourney.

There are 72 teams that make the NCAA tournament. If a team makes it in they are still just 1 of 72 teams that can make that claim. So if a team is not a regular conference champion they have this fall back position to go to, which is the NCAA tourney. It has been way too long since Iowa last won or tied for the BBall conference championship and each season we have accepted the consolation prize of a NCAA tourney bid when the record warrants it. It is time to realize the NCAA is nothing more than a big three weekend tournament for about 45 second place or more teams.

I'm so out of the loop. When did the field expand to 72?

 

[Knight78]

After reading Jon Miller's piece about whether it is better to get a six seed rather than the five seed for the B1G tourney it appears the idea of actually winning a regular conference championship does not carry much weight anymore. Caring more about what is better for a tourney seed over where you finish in the conference standings is just nuts. I want Iowa to win out in the regular season, I feel that finishing among the top four is a better accomplishment than whatever they do in the B1G tourney.

There are 72 teams that make the NCAA tournament. If a team makes it in they are still just 1 of 72 teams that can make that claim. So if a team is not a regular conference champion they have this fall back position to go to, which is the NCAA tourney. It has been way too long since Iowa last won or tied for the BBall conference championship and each season we have accepted the consolation prize of a NCAA tourney bid when the record warrants it. It is time to realize the NCAA is nothing more than a big three weekend tournament for about 45 second place or more teams.

Good points all; however, there are only 68 teams that make the NCAA tournament.

 

[bcl20]

American sports are all about the playoffs. The NCAA tournament is college basketball playoffs. How you finish in that playoff is what major media, history and most rates your team. Conference titles are tougher to get and I would love to get one but for whatever reason, you're judged based on how you do in that tournament. It's just the way it is.

 

[ChosenChildren]

American sports are all about the playoffs. The NCAA tournament is college basketball playoffs. How you finish in that playoff is what major media, history and most rates your team. Conference titles are tougher to get and I would love to get one but for whatever reason, you're judged based on how you do in that tournament. It's just the way it is.

Making the field of 68 in the NCAA tournament is a huge accomplishment in any year. Iowa has a chance to do it again this year.

Iowa can still win the Big Ten tournament. I think they have enough talent to do it on a neutral floor

 

[bcl20]

Making the field of 68 in the NCAA tournament is a huge accomplishment in any year. Iowa has a chance to do it again this year.

Iowa can still win the Big Ten tournament. I think they have enough talent to do it on a neutral floor

Getting an at large birth kind of signifies that you were in the top 10 percent of college basketball for a season.

If you count Major conferences/Mid majors (the teams who are typically competing for at large births) you are finishing in the top 30 percent.

The way I see it, making the tournament is definitely an accomplishment, especially in a sport that isn't the most balanced like all college sports are when compared to pro sports. I don't see it as "settling" as seemed to be implied. It's a think your happy about. It's a thing that's better than other things and a thing that's not as cool as other things.

 

[rschneider]

What university do you think you cheer for? Iowa hasn't competed highly in sports for a long time, excluding wrestling, yippee.

 

[kicker22]

Call me crazy, but despite the prestige of a conference championship, if given the choice I'd rather have a national championship. Just my opinion but to me "national" outweighs "conference" regardless of what it takes to win either of them.