New March Madness Format
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How will this impact the bracket/scoring brackets that many Americans enjoy participating in yearly?
It’s a bone to throw mid-majors a chance for a few more teams to make the dance (while also expanding the number of P4 schools disproportionately). So maybe we make the dance now, but did we really or is the bar just lower now.
The obvious question is, if you're going to expand it, why stop at 76?
It's only going to hold for a mere handful of years until it inevitably gets expanded yet again, right? So what's all this pussyfooting around? Just open the floodgates, already. The ultimate goal is always to make more and more money by letting more teams in.....right? Go big or go home.
Make every double digit seed(10-16) play a play-in game. That's 28 extra teams to a field of 64 for 92 total teams. You're not in the top 92(essentially Top 100) you shouldn't be playing past the conference tournaments anyway.
That way, the dreaded 8/9 match-up really isn't so bad because at least you don't have to do a play-in.
Of course, if i had it my way, they would have realized it was absolutely perfect with 64 and never messed with it.
It's only going to hold for a mere handful of years until it inevitably gets expanded yet again, right? So what's all this pussyfooting around? Just open the floodgates, already. The ultimate goal is always to make more and more money by letting more teams in.....right? Go big or go home.
Make every double digit seed(10-16) play a play-in game. That's 28 extra teams to a field of 64 for 92 total teams. You're not in the top 92(essentially Top 100) you shouldn't be playing past the conference tournaments anyway.
That way, the dreaded 8/9 match-up really isn't so bad because at least you don't have to do a play-in.
Of course, if i had it my way, they would have realized it was absolutely perfect with 64 and never messed with it.
When I first began following college basketball, the field was 32. It has incrementally increased through the years. Once we have a few years under our belt with the new tournament format, I am sure we will view our selection (even if we are the last at-large team selected) as having "made the dance". I certainly think that as a perennial 50-75 NET team (bar two seasons ago), this will benefit a team like Seton Hall.
The only person I’ve seen supporting this on Twitter is Bozzella. Now why could that be?
How differently would we feel about our situation if the expanded bracket was established when Sha started at SH and we made 2 NCAATs in his 4 years?
And also preventing a team like St Peter's from taking out high seeded SEC and Big 10 teams or Siena throwing a scare into a Duke in the first round.
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Because we can be among the last four or second four out now?