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NCAA tourney to expand to 76 teams

Just means more "bracket buster" type mid-majors will have to go thru a play-in game in order to get to that chance to be the team to upset a higher seeded power 5 team. 🤮
 
MacabreMob said:
Just means more "bracket buster" type mid-majors will have to go thru a play-in game in order to get to that chance to be the team to upset a higher seeded power 5 team. 🤮
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Until things change mid major teams have little chance at getting to the Sweet 16. Heck even some of the bigger schools will have a hard time getting to the Elite 8 because of the money being paid to the Big 10, SEC, ACC and Big 12 teams.
 
This is funny, and everyone should watch...
Here is Matt Norlander ripping the NCAA and having a irrational and hysterical breakdown over the NCAA expanding the tournament by 8 teams, simply because the last teams added usually don't beat the higher seeds.
www.x.com/MattNorlander/status/2049484674884354084

I have a lot of respect for good writers like Norlander and Parrish, but what these people who worship at the altar of the Power Conferences don't get is that the smaller conference teams can never get better if they don't get a tiny bit more of the massive NCAA Tournament pie. That is why the example of a Gonzaga is so rare. Every time a program takes a step up, the NCAA changes the way they select teams for the tournament to exclude them. The number of at-large bids going to non-Power Conference teams has shrunk to all-time lows the last few years.
So why are they in such a panic over adding just 8 more teams, some of which will be bottom-half Power Conference teams with losing records? Because they are afraid a couple more mid-majors might get in and upset one of their favorite blue-bloods.
 
Da Coach said:
This is funny, and everyone should watch...
Here is Matt Norlander ripping the NCAA and having a irrational and hysterical breakdown over the NCAA expanding the tournament by 8 teams, simply because the last teams added usually don't beat the higher seeds.
www.x.com/MattNorlander/status/2049484674884354084

I have a lot of respect for good writers like Norlander and Parrish, but what these people who worship at the altar of the Power Conferences don't get is that the smaller conference teams can never get better if they don't get a tiny bit more of the massive NCAA Tournament pie. That is why the example of a Gonzaga is so rare. Every time a program takes a step up, the NCAA changes the way they select teams for the tournament to exclude them. The number of at-large bids going to non-Power Conference teams has shrunk to all-time lows the last few years.
So why are they in such a panic over adding just 8 more teams, some of which will be bottom-half Power Conference teams with losing records? Because they are afraid a couple more mid-majors might get in and upset one of their favorite blue-bloods.
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Here is what I dont undertand. Among the total of 365 or so teams most are mid-majors. So when it comes to a vote on these rules how do they get voted in.
 
I have yet to see any poll that shows even a majority of people in favor of this move. The tournament no longer rewards good seasons. They just need to add every team to the Tournament and let it play out.
 
hint
it is a good-ole-boys trick to make the 275-300 or so smaller schools and midmajors think it will benefit them,

BUT - in reality it'll be used to stick all the midmajors into the bottom 24 teams & have them knock off each other in the play-in round
even before the 64-team tournament starts. Then there'll be MORE open slots for the 10th, 12th & 14th place teams in the Power Conferences
 
About 10 years ago I was seriously hoping it would expand to 76 or 80 (actually the best number IMO).
Now that it's probable, I am indifferent to it because of the landscape of college hoops is so different and anti-mid major...I really don't like the Big Dance anymore - very much lacks excitement unless you're a fan of the Power 5 conferences. I'd almost rather split off from the power conferences and set a rule than any player that did not sign with a P-5 school is not eligible to transfer there unless a senior and no Jucos are eligible. I know that's a far-fetched dream, but hey.
 
yoda said:
hint
it is a good-ole-boys trick to make the 275-300 or so smaller schools and midmajors think it will benefit them,

BUT - in reality it'll be used to stick all the midmajors into the bottom 24 teams & have them knock off each other in the play-in round
even before the 64-team tournament starts. Then there'll be MORE open slots for the 10th, 12th & 14th place teams in the Power Conferences
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Yeah, I'd much rather see 1 and 2 seeds get a bye than the bottom 24 teams play in some preliminary play in that nobody cares about
 
I really put a long time into researching and compiling this one. I'd love if you gave it a read, I'm pretty proud of it. Ultimately, you can't fully fix a broken system but I made an attempt to try and put together a solution that it at least makes it a bit more fair. Money and big schools still win, but it opens the door a little more and at least in my world, it gets a deserving Belmont team a bid if we had the 76 team format last season.

New NCAA Expansion: A Psychologically Broken Change
 
egib52 said:
This move will either shutter the NIT, or alternatively make it an exclusively a mid-major tournament, which might be the point.
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I think it will move to a mid-major tournament, which wouldn't be all that bad. I think the CBC will cease to exist with the expanded format.
 
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