New NCAA Tournament Bracketing Principles Coming

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thejumper5

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I wonder if we could see a change in how the RPI and other computer polls are used?

Joe Lunardi:

"New men's basketball bracketing principles to be announced Thursday. Some changes "significant," we're told. Let the speculation begin..."
 


If that's what it is that would have helped a ton last year considering where Iowa's KenPom and Sagarin ratings were.
 


Oh great, just another reason for me to b1tch and moan about how Iowa got screwed out of the tourney last year.....
 


I think it likely has more to do with seeding and who can play who. With conferences with 14+ teams it will likely mean the rule that teams can't play each other from the same conference in the first two rounds is gone. Also bet they ditch regional seeding so teams aren't criminally under seeded like Oregon next year.

It has been said many times but each member of the selection committee can bring their own rankings and are encouraged to look at a lot of different systems, and some even make their own.
 


BryceC said:
I think it likely has more to do with seeding and who can play who. With conferences with 14+ teams it will likely mean the rule that teams can't play each other from the same conference in the first two rounds is gone. Also bet they ditch regional seeding so teams aren't criminally under seeded like Oregon next year.

It has been said many times but each member of the selection committee can bring their own rankings and are encouraged to look at a lot of different systems, and some even make their own.
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That rule has been gone for a few years now. Cincy played fellow Big East member UConn in the second round in 2011.
 






hawkfan33 said:
That rule has been gone for a few years now. Cincy played fellow Big East member UConn in the second round in 2011.
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Are you sure the rule has been gone? I might be off, but wasn't that the year that the Big East got like 11 teams in? It might have just been an exceptional case, where they couldn't stick to that rule and come even close to being fair with the seeding.
 


Committee changes bracketing guidelines for Division I tournament - NCAA.com

This means that teams from the same conference that played only once during the season can now face each other as early as the third round of the championship. Subsequently, teams from the same league that met twice during the year will not potentially play each other until the regional semifinals. Also, teams from the same league that played each other three times during the course of the season cannot play until the regional championship game...

The committee also altered an additional consideration for rematches of non-conference regular-season games. Those will be avoided in the First Four and in the second round, if possible. To give itself even more flexibility, the committee may relax any principle in the event that two or more teams from the same league are among the last four at-large teams selected to the field and thus will participate in the First Four.

 


Are they going to start looking at "shoulda" wins? Because that would really help. Iowa would have been a 6 seed last year.
 


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