College Sports (Basketball)

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Welcome to the college sports news thread.
 
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phats22
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Illwinsagain
the juiceman cometh said:
The Tourney is already as close to perfection as anything in sports. I hope they never do this. If anything should be changed, get rid of the play-ins. Or at a minimum, make them for at-large teams only. Automatic qualification should guarantee a first round game, not just a play-in game.
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I agree that the play-ins should only be teams that did not win their teams autobid. If you win the conference autobid, you deserve to be playing on Thursday or Friday.
 
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dcenters33
Expanding the tournament is a bad idea and takes away from the significance of making the tournament, especially for mid major teams. I do get it gives those smaller programs a better chance, but it seems more like a handout as opposed to something you earn. Having 68 teams I think is perfect and I feel like expanding the tournament is just following a trend instead of being a logical choice. However, the NCAA loves money so I wouldn't be surprised if this gets passed within the next few years.
 
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thefalcon5
dcenters33 said:
Expanding the tournament is a bad idea and takes away from the significance of making the tournament, especially for mid major teams. I do get it gives those smaller programs a better chance, but it seems more like a handout as opposed to something you earn. Having 68 teams I think is perfect and I feel like expanding the tournament is just following a trend instead of being a logical choice. However, the NCAA loves money so I wouldn't be surprised if this gets passed within the next few years.
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Yeah the driving force here is and always will be money, not providing a better product.

I agree its much more likely we see the tournament expand within a few years.
 
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Calvin
dcenters33 said:
Expanding the tournament is a bad idea and takes away from the significance of making the tournament, especially for mid major teams. I do get it gives those smaller programs a better chance, but it seems more like a handout as opposed to something you earn. Having 68 teams I think is perfect and I feel like expanding the tournament is just following a trend instead of being a logical choice. However, the NCAA loves money so I wouldn't be surprised if this gets passed within the next few years.
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Expand the play-ins?
 
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Oracle21
If you really wanted to make college basketball more competitive, and expand the tourney, what you would need to do is make say the top 6 seeds (24 teams) all protected. Then the seeds 7 thru 16 (40 teams) would all be play in games. That would add some intrigue in the regular season at trying to avoid the play in. And that Monday/Tuesday could have 40 additional games. Everyone says the best days of the tourney is the first Round Th/Fr. NCAA could try to replicate that feeling with Mon/Tu play ins
 
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the juiceman cometh
Oracle21 said:
If you really wanted to make college basketball more competitive, and expand the tourney, what you would need to do is make say the top 6 seeds (24 teams) all protected. Then the seeds 7 thru 16 (40 teams) would all be play in games. That would add some intrigue in the regular season at trying to avoid the play in. And that Monday/Tuesday could have 40 additional games. Everyone says the best days of the tourney is the first Round Th/Fr. NCAA could try to replicate that feeling with Mon/Tu play ins
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grue2
Oracle21 said:
If you really wanted to make college basketball more competitive, and expand the tourney, what you would need to do is make say the top 6 seeds (24 teams) all protected. Then the seeds 7 thru 16 (40 teams) would all be play in games. That would add some intrigue in the regular season at trying to avoid the play in. And that Monday/Tuesday could have 40 additional games. Everyone says the best days of the tourney is the first Round Th/Fr. NCAA could try to replicate that feeling with Mon/Tu play ins
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I like the ideas of 7-16 playing. The teams seeded 13-15 will have some real upset shots against teams 8-10.

I hate the idea of a Mon/Tue round.
1) Teams can't get there after a Sunday announcement unless you are starting the tournament a week later. Announcing earlier could solve that. It would require a significant change to many of the P4 conference tournament schedules.

2) Th/Fri can be a long weekend. M/T, then Th/Fri means taking an entire week off. Most people don't have that many vacation days. I suspect it means a much lower viewership for those first games even though they are more interesting games.

3) Even as a die hard college BB fan, I find 4 days of games in a week a lot. There is no way I'd watch 6.
 
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the juiceman cometh
Calvin said:
This seems worth posting G-League to college
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Basically, for an international player, unaffiliated G-League is equivalent to what we've been seeing with young players from European pro leagues. The key seems to be NBA draft eligibility. If you are young enough (under 22) not to be automatically draft eligible (i.e. you have to manually enter your name into the draft) then it appears you can retain eligibility. This guy entered and withdrew his name from the 2025 NBA draft. I still have no idea if an American player would be able to do this though. Since G League Ignite is no longer a thing we're probably not going to see such a scenario play out anyway.
 
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pruman91
the almighty $$$$$$$...............
 
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