College Sports (Basketball)

[Heisenbobble]

I always get frustrated by the champions games or whatever they are called early in the season. Kansas, Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State I think. This should be revised to be based on who has won the championship the most in, for example, the past 25 years.

Uconn, 5 times
Florida, 3 times
Duke, 3 times
Unc, 3 times

That's over 50% for those 4 schools.

Only 1 of their annually rewarded teams even qualifies based on long term success. Isn't it time for a change?

Or make it a rematch of the Final Four.

 

[ChiefGritty]

I always get frustrated by the champions games or whatever they are called early in the season. Kansas, Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State I think. This should be revised to be based on who has won the championship the most in, for example, the past 25 years.

Uconn, 5 times
Florida, 3 times
Duke, 3 times
Unc, 3 times

That's over 50% for those 4 schools.

Only 1 of their annually rewarded teams even qualifies based on long term success. Isn't it time for a change?

As somebody else said yesterday, the days of that sort of thing standing in for cold, hard cash are over, the "blue bloods" can't just warehouse all the top players anymore.

 

[Dan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2047304878557434318

 

[The Sprouting Divot]

Or make it a rematch of the Final Four.

This is so plainly obvious and such a guaranteed success that it will never happen.

 

[Det_Illini_fan]

Should just be the last 4 champs

Michigan, Florida, UConn, Kansas

The whining by Michigan State would reach unfathomable decibel levels if they got booted from this, especially for Michigan

 

[BalloonsTheElephant]

I always get frustrated by the champions games or whatever they are called early in the season. Kansas, Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State I think. This should be revised to be based on who has won the championship the most in, for example, the past 25 years.

Uconn, 5 times
Florida, 3 times
Duke, 3 times
Unc, 3 times

That's over 50% for those 4 schools.

Only 1 of their annually rewarded teams even qualifies based on long term success. Isn't it time for a change?

How about the Final Four teams from the previous season all play each other in an MTE. Winners of the games play for the championship, losers play for 3rd. Make it an annual charitable event. Same conference opponents on opposite sides. If they do play, it doesn't count against conference record.

 

[OrangeBlue98]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2047304878557434318

The biggest testament to an athletic director is that those in the department are in demand to become ADs themselves.

Big shoes to fill, but I foresee these openings to be in very high demand.

 

[Piotyr]

How about the Final Four teams from the previous season all play each other in an MTE. Winners of the games play for the championship, losers play for 3rd. Make it an annual charitable event. Same conference opponents on opposite sides. If they do play, it doesn't count against conference record.

The issue there is tournaments try very hard to avoid conference matchups in non-conference, so having both Michigan and Illinois in an MTE would be avoided (if anything they'd go with the 4 1 seeds since that actually works out this year).