College Sports (Basketball)

#103      
fatboyslim
wc_illini said:
True, but the tradeoff is less exciting games in the round of 64. The 14 and 15 seeds were already bad enough. Now two would-be 16 seeds will be 15 seeds and two would-be 15 seeds will be 14 seeds (and so on).

In the interest of getting closer to having the top 64 teams in the real tournament, I was hoping it would go the other way. But I guess it's a better "reward" for the top seeds to get to face worse competition, and I do like that.
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I say this because if you win your conference tournament and get an automatic bid you should be playing in the actual tournament and not playing your way into the tournament. If it is less exciting games so be it, most of those games are less exciting anyway.
 
#104      
GrayGhost77
Fly Illini Fly! said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2049244083667783710
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ryan reynolds hd GIF
 
#106      
wc_illini
fatboyslim said:
I say this because if you win your conference tournament and get an automatic bid you should be playing in the actual tournament and not playing your way into the tournament. If it is less exciting games so be it, most of those games are less exciting anyway.
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I wish the best KenPom team from each conference got an autobid. The conference tourneys are as much a crapshoot as the NCAAT.

But I also wish we could take the 16 best KenPom/Torvik teams and have 7-game series to determine the winner, so you probably shouldn't ask me :ROFLMAO:
 
#107      
wc_illini
Fly Illini Fly! said:
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The ESPN article says "The expansion would lead to an additional eight men's games, meaning the Tuesday and Wednesday of the NCAA tournament would feature 24 of the 76 men's teams. That number now includes eight teams who would have qualified for the traditional bracket that would square off against the eight at-large additions."

I read this to mean the play-in games will be: two 16v16 games (four teams), and ten games between bubble teams (twenty teams).
 
#108      
BfosterL
New Creation said:
Hate this. Why change something that isn’t broken.

All about the $$$. Why not just make it 124 teams then?
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I was initially against when the field was expanded to 68, but I can't imagine it now without the first 4 games. I'm fine with more of those.
 
#109      
Epsilon
Really not interested in seeing more sub .500 conference-record teams from major conferences get in. I’d rather see the low- or mid- major teams that dominated their conference play that just somehow lost their conference tournament get in finally. That’s the best way to expand this thing.
 
#110      
ChiefGritty
Fly Illini Fly! said:
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To be clear I think this is the equivalent of painting a Facebook ad onto the Sistine Chapel ceiling and I would literally send people to jail for it if I could, HOWEVER putting more auto qualifiers into play-in games will actually make the 16 and 15 seeds quite a bit stronger and more likely to beat 1's and 2's, all else being equal.

You'll have one of the 2's playing a team that would have been a 13 seed pre-2011.
 
#112      
mysterio2525
I fully expect Illinois to be on the top 10 from now until eternity so this really won't matter to me. but it does kinda suck

there is a small plus side. since I go to Vegas every year for March madness, I wouldn't mind being and to go to a game in Vegas.
 
#116      
wc_illini
Fly Illini Fly! said:
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And a first team out (Cincinnati) would still have an efficiency rank equal/better than the last four bye teams. I'll never get used to ignoring efficiency for selection.

I'll also never get used to people whining about the last at-large teams' resumes without also whining about the resumes of the worst auto-bid teams. We're just used to the latter.
 
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#120      
FeelYourPaign
I think the evidence of how many fans want this will be in the pools. How many pools will ignore those first 12 games and ask you to pick only the 64? I predict that 99 % of pools will ignore the play ins and pools will continue to start on Thursday.
 
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