NCAA Play in games

DuffMan

DuffMan

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Just want to make sure I understand this. There are 4 play in games this year. The winners of those 4 play in games determine the 4 16 seeds in the tournament. Is that correct?
 




Almost. 2 of them are 16 seed placements, and 2 of them are the last 4 selected to the tournament. I believe last year one game was a 12.
 




DuffMan said:
Just want to make sure I understand this. There are 4 play in games this year. The winners of those 4 play in games determine the 4 16 seeds in the tournament. Is that correct?
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2 of the games are 16 seeds and the other 2 are 12 seeds.
 


uofihawkInation said:
Almost. 2 of them are 16 seed placements, and 2 of them are the last 4 selected to the tournament. I believe last year one game was a 12.
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Correct. 2 play in games (4 teams) determine 2 16 seeds. The other 2 play in games are going to determine 2 12 seeds. These will likely be bigger conf teams that are right on the bubble, I have seen NC State, NW, Miami (FL), USF all predicted to be in these two games.
 


So basically they make the last four in play in a pig tail to even get in the dance? That's kinda ****ed up. How is that going to work for brackets. Are people going to have to pick the play in games also? I mean every year it seems a 12 knocks of a 5, but now we won't know who the 12's are until the day before the tournament.

I'm all for expanding the tournament, but do it in a way that doesn't **** with the brackets.... or maybe thats what the NCAA wanted to do... Regardless I think it's bull ****.
 






DuffMan said:
So basically they make the last four in play in a pig tail to even get in the dance? That's kinda ****ed up. How is that going to work for brackets. Are people going to have to pick the play in games also? I mean every year it seems a 12 knocks of a 5, but now we won't know who the 12's are until the day before the tournament.

I'm all for expanding the tournament, but do it in a way that doesn't **** with the brackets.... or maybe thats what the NCAA wanted to do... Regardless I think it's bull ****.
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It happened last year. We skipped the first 4
 


But those 12 seed games are a heck of a lot more entertaining to watch than those small schools battling it out for the right to play the #1 seed.
 


ThunderHawk said:
This "play in" garbage is just about the dumbest thing ever.
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I guess I get it for the 16 seeds, but for the 12 seeds? Why the **** to the 12's have to play one more game than 2 of the 16 seeds, and all of the 15-13's?

If you want play in games fine, but have them all for the 16 seeds and start letting mid majors who go 25-4 in one bid leagues but get upset in their conference title games into the NCAA tournament outright.
 




It was basically a way to get more of the bubble teams an opportunity to play their way into the tournament.
 


DuffMan said:
I guess I get it for the 16 seeds, but for the 12 seeds? Why the **** to the 12's have to play one more game than 2 of the 16 seeds, and all of the 15-13's?

If you want play in games fine, but have them all for the 16 seeds and start letting mid majors who go 25-4 in one bid leagues but get upset in their conference title games into the NCAA tournament outright.
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I think it's because those are the last teams in that aren't auto qualifiers. most of the 14,15,16 will come from tourny champs of smaller conferences.
 


DuffMan said:
That's probably what we did also, but it sure makes it hard to pick that 12-5 round when you don't even know who the **** the 12 will be.
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Yeah, probably have to play it this year. It will be more acceptable now that the 12 seeds are playing rather than just (2) 16 seeds.
 


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