You know with the expansion that only 21% of all div 1 teams. That’s less than pro sports. NFL 43%. Plus with more parity I like the plan.
True, but when Rutgers is the drek we will like it.
The major conferences can f off. Stop trying to ruin something so perfect. Breakaway for football but leave basketball alone
Bac, always like your stuff. Personally I never wanted to go beyond 64. It was perfectly balanced. I might have even preferred 48 from when I first was a fan. But if we’re already 68, 76 isn’t really different. It also would have prevented our RU screw last year. Also % wise it’s not a bad total. Finally, even though it would have helped Rutgers last year I might be for capping high majors. More cinderellas could be fun in the tourney that’s full of ‘land mines’ for teams.
The thing is the last eight in through the last eight out are usually not all that different. It's pretty flat so I'm fine bringing in some more teams.
I don't totally disagree. I just go back to what others are saying. If you look at professional sports, a ridiculously high percentage of teams make the playoffs. In college football, nearly half go to a bowl. So may as well do the same thing with college basketball. As has been stated if you take 72 out of 350, you're still on the low end in terms of percentage.
Half of the 360 is non competitive
I appreciate your point of view.
Letting in some more good (at least .500 teams in elite conferences like UConn was in 2011 although they did win their conference tournament that season) is OK as long as you add enough spots for “mid-majors.” I doubt anyone would want to play Yale, Princeton or Cornell this year in the Big Dance.
Texas A&M who just snapped a 6 game losing streak would be in the tourney if it expanded at 16-13 with 4 Quad 3 losses. Why do we need to see schools like that. Ditto for Colorado who has one Q1 win. A weak Wake Forest. Heck medicore Pitt and Cuse would be last in/last out material. Ohio State would be close despite a 7-12 Q1/2 mark I do not see the need for NIT top seeds to get in
The most intriguing games are always the mid-majors vs. the Power 6. If it leads to more of that then that’s great.
Yet many of the play in teams have done well. UcLA goes to Final Four.
im having trouble finding more than 16 schools on the bubble out right now, and maybe only 10 of them are legit bubble schools.Schools have 30-32 chances to make a resume. Their generally is a pretty good cutoff in knowing which schools are ncaa worthy. Of course there is always going to be a snub or two every year. Thats the whole fun of it. Rutgers being on the bubble isnt a thing to aspire so Pike has to move the program forward because we straddled the bubble in the 3 ncaa years and one non ncaa year.
I'm OK with expanding, but I think that was a good insight about the Fox tournament gregkoko
only hope would be if there was a deal where the NCAA changed the payout formulas where power conference schools would get paid more per unit than non power schools.
It is harder for power conference schools to go 18-15. Put another way, an 18-15 team in 2024 is better than an 18-15 team twenty years ago.
