Yeah, and they'd have to play first round games just like Wofford should.In doing a little checking I found that 52 teams from the power conferences had winning records this season. That means that you would like to increase the number of crappy teams from crappy little conferences in the tournament to 44?
FYI.... the 52 teams included any team with a winning record at least 1 game over .500. That includes garbage teams like Miami & Washington State that finished dead last in the ACC & Pac 10 conferences but would get bids based virtually on the fact that they had a winning record and didn't beat a single solid basketball team the entire season.
64 or 96 NCAA Tournament teams
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Just saying.... adding teams like that is a disgrace. They will have to add them or add more mid major teams just to fill a 96 team field. Some of the teams that would get in would be pathetic. Miami? 4 conference wins? They won 8 games against power conference teams. They played 33 games this year. That is absolutely terrible. If they don't add teams like them they will have to start adding teams with losing records.... That is an AWFUL idea. :no:
But you're ok with teams like Wofford or East Tennessee State getting in because they won their crappy conference tournament. And most likely it would end up being like combining the NIT and NCAA tourneys, and Miami didn't make the NIT so you're safe there.
That is based on this year though. Miami would be your average team in a few years if the tournament goes to 96. They didn't play anybody. They got 20 wins and only won 4 conference games which puts them in dead last. When was the last time you saw a team with 20 wins finish dead last in their conference? It is unheard of but will soon become the norm if the field expands. Kiss the Big 10/ ACC challenge goodbye. Do you think any of those teams in the middle of those conferences will want to risk a loss by playing someone that may actually beat them in the non conference? No way. The good mid major teams will fall off because nobody will ever schedule them. IF they can't schedule some big time teams to play then the recruits they get will stop coming and they will sink back to complete obscurity.
The only people that suffer in all of this are the fans. The NCAA Tournament would become a joke. The regular season would become pointless to watch. Who wants to watch the top teams play the bottom of the barrel mid majors or D-II schools? Not me.
It is prestigious to make the NCAA Tournament. It won't be anymore. Are we going to run into new bubble scenarios where take a team like Michigan.... Will Michigan be in contention to get a bid at 15-17 overall? The argument will be that they went 7-11 in the Big 10.
UCLA would snag an at large bid at 14-18 overall but they went 8-10 in the Pac-10. Hey... they almost went .500 in a power conference so they must be good.
There is no reason to expand. Keep the NIT. Don't screw up the best sports event in existence for the sake of making a few bubble teams happy.
I do because you seem to want less "crappy" teams otherwise known as conference tournament champs in the field. Hell... a team in a small conference that doesn't win their tourney must really suck then. Like I said.... I found 52 teams from power conferences that were at least 1 game over .500 overall. That means that the mid majors would have to fill 44 slots or they would start having to take power conference schools with losing records. Since you don't think any of the small schools deserve to be in at all why would you want to put a system in place that will force more of them into the tournament?
I just didn't want those crappy teams that don't play anyone to have a bye, I don't care, actually I'd want teams like Wofford or Eat Tennessee state to be in, but they shouldn't get byes just for winning their tourney. I would take the top 32 seeds regardless of how they got there.