NCAA Tournament Automatic Bids

[BUBraves2006]

I know the NCAA rewards one NCAA bid to every conference tournament champion (one regular season champ - Ivy League), but I've never quite seen as compelling of an argument to not allow anyone from a conference to be in thournament. The SWAC has every team with an RPI of 240 or higher. Outside of conference play, the league's combined record is 8-86 (.085 winning percentage).

I don't suggest doing away with the system, as instead of a deserving MVC/MAC/Colonial team getting that bid, the 7th place Big Ten team would like get it knowing the committee.

I just find it interesting how truly bad some of the conferences are out there. I am also observant enough to know that most of these teams play 90% of their games on the road, as nobody wants to come to their place(s).

But THIS bad?

[tornado]

Their only qualifier (automatic qualifier) will get the 65th play-in bid, and will be eliminated anyway, so it all works out.

[Dallas Brave]

I know the NCAA rewards one NCAA bid to every conference tournament champion (one regular season champ - Ivy League), but I've never quite seen as compelling of an argument to not allow anyone from a conference to be in thournament. The SWAC has every team with an RPI of 240 or higher. Outside of conference play, the league's combined record is 8-86 (.085 winning percentage).

I don't suggest doing away with the system, as instead of a deserving MVC/MAC/Colonial team getting that bid, the 7th place Big Ten team would like get it knowing the committee.

I just find it interesting how truly bad some of the conferences are out there. I am also observant enough to know that most of these teams play 90% of their games on the road, as nobody wants to come to their place(s).


But THIS bad?

You can think of the NCAA as a communistic organization that has lost its way.

Originally, the mission of the NCAA was to promote and regulate some level of equality among its member schools and their respective student athletes. Some vestiges (such as the one team from each conference) remain, but on the whole the organization is now run by those conferences controlling large athletic budgets (i.e., the BSC conferences) as college sports have evolved into big business.