Bracketology

[Tommy]

Bigger schools=more fans=more money. That’s all they care about. It’s not about competition, sadly.

[Dubl R 1]

I think they should make it a selection rule that you cannot be under .500 in conference to earn an at large.

Agree with this as well..been saying it for years...if you can't go .500 in your own conference why are you rewarded with post season play?

[basketball nut]

Agree with this as well..been saying it for years...if you can't go .500 in your own conference why are you rewarded with post season play?

Tommy hit on the head, basically they want the money. Also that is who the big business wants for the same reason. They pay big bucks for the commercials so they want big schools with big followers.
It's all about the money for the advertisements, the schools and the NCAA

[Go_Braves]

This is why the big conferences cooked up the NET formula, and use such subjective non-sense as "Signature Wins", then they refuse to play good mid-major teams, assuring that the mid-majors won't get those necessary Signature Wins. They do not want to allow the mid-majors to get that money, which could possibly allow some to build better programs, and compete for the top tier recruits, TV money, etc.

During the regular season - schools in the Power 5 will play several ranked teams. Just look at the Big 12 final standings 5 of the ten teams are ranked. That means that each team in the Big 12 got to play at least 8 to 10 games each season against ranked conference teams - not to mention ranked teams outside of their conference. Bradley and other mid majors are lucky to get "1" or "2" at the most games against ranked teams - and as shared are usually away games - rarely at home. During the regular season at least 5 Big 10 teams were ranked one time or another - although at the end of the regular season only 2 remain ranked. The Big 10 will likely have 8 teams in the Dance with at least half done after the second round.

The system is totally rigged against the Mid-Majors. Rules need to be changed requiring the Power 5 schools to play at least 3 mid-majors during the regular season and one of those games is to be played on a Mid-Major home court. Of course - this will likely never happen - TO MUCH MONEY WOULD BE AT STAKE.

[Dubl R 1]

Tommy hit on the head, basically they want the money. Also that is who the big business wants for the same reason. They pay big bucks for the commercials so they want big schools with big followers.
It's all about the money for the advertisements, the schools and the NCAA

Of course I know that. I'd rather they just say that then this horse$%#^ about Eye Test, Signature Wins, Body of Work, blah blah blah....its insulting and honestly just makes the selection committee look foolish.

[Dubl R 1]

During the regular season - schools in the Power 5 will play several ranked teams. Just look at the Big 12 final standings 5 of the ten teams are ranked. That means that each team in the Big 12 got to play at least 8 to 10 games each season against ranked conference teams - not to mention ranked teams outside of their conference. Bradley and other mid majors are lucky to get "1" or "2" at the most games against ranked teams - and as shared are usually away games - rarely at home. During the regular season at least 5 Big 10 teams were ranked one time or another - although at the end of the regular season only 2 remain ranked. The Big 10 will likely have 8 teams in the Dance with at least half done after the second round.

The system is totally rigged against the Mid-Majors. Rules need to be changed requiring the Power 5 schools to play at least 3 mid-majors during the regular season and one of those games is to be played on a Mid-Major home court. Of course - this will likely never happen - TO MUCH MONEY WOULD BE AT STAKE.

Quite honestly it's also almost worthless for a mid major to even put themselves thru a regular season....regular season championship means almost nothing. I mean if 25 wins isn't enough for consideration anymore, man thats crazy....there are way too many good teams to do much better than 25 wins no matter what conference you are in.
A regular season championship would almost always bear out who a better team is rather than who gets hot for 3 games at the end of the year, but there is no money in the regular season...the conference wants that $$ from Arch Madness just like the power 5's want that money from the Big Dance.

[Tommy]

I wish the mid-majors would just boycott the NCAA and go to the NIT instead.

[Stryker]

Quite honestly it's also almost worthless for a mid major to even put themselves thru a regular season....regular season championship means almost nothing. I mean if 25 wins isn't enough for consideration anymore, man thats crazy....there are way too many good teams to do much better than 25 wins no matter what conference you are in.
A regular season championship would almost always bear out who a better team is rather than who gets hot for 3 games at the end of the year, but there is no money in the regular season...the conference wants that $$ from Arch Madness just like the power 5's want that money from the Big Dance.

Agreed, I'd almost rather see regular season champs get an auto bid and the tournament winner get the NIT bid or something. Or a weighted NCAA at large bid or something like that.

[bradleyfan124]

Agreed, I'd almost rather see regular season champs get an auto bid and the tournament winner get the NIT bid or something. Or a weighted NCAA at large bid or something like that.

Thats the way it should be. But again the NCAA gets it ass backwards