NCAA has no real control of football anymore (if they ever did). They are trying to hang on to control in basketball.
Bracketology 2024
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Eh to me it’s nothing to do with the NCAA. It’s the media.
“The SEC can’t possibly play a 9th conference game. Have you seen how hard each week is?”
“The Big 12 is gaming the system. Those scumbags are trying to manipulate high rankings so they can get more teams in the tourney!”
Obviously I’m fabricating a little but the point remains.
I’m probably in the minority here but I’d rather secure Omaha in the tourney than share a regular season championship. Baylor would vault in the rankings by beating Houston on Saturday.
If Baylor jumps Alabama, we don' thave to worry about them in Omaha.
Also, they have been good on the road and in neutral site games. I think that is giving them a boost as well.
I think there is a REALLY narrow window where Alabama would be ahead of Baylor and Baylor head of Iowa State. I doubt that comes to fruition.
That's a lot of words from the chairman to simply state "The Big 12 conference has a bunch of elite teams"This is from an Athletic article today:
"We caught up with the chairman this week to discuss some pertinent issues (and nominate ourselves for future committee membership … still waiting to hear back on that one).
How about the notion that certain leagues, like the Big 12, have gamed the system by playing soft nonconference schedules and then simply racking up quality wins against one another? Iowa State, for example, played the No. 323 nonconference schedule per the NET, yet had five Quad 1 wins before the reveal. (The Cyclones added another Saturday against Texas Tech before losing to Houston on Monday.) They were awarded an early No. 3 seed by the committee, 12th overall.
“We spend a significant amount of time discussing this exact topic,” McClelland said. “It’s always good for the game to play good nonconference schedules. If teams are going to play a weak nonconference schedule, it makes it critically important for them to do well in their league games. Even in the loss at Houston, it was a hard-fought game, and I think the nation could see, even if they watched just that one game and not the entirety of the season like we do, that Iowa State is a very good team and certainly deserving of the seed we gave them. But if you do play a weak nonconference schedule and then you get into the league and don’t win those games against the best teams and are just kind of floating there at let’s say 9-9 … just because you have a tremendous amount of wins doesn’t necessarily guarantee you a way into the tournament.”
Bracket Watch: The selection committee chairman speaks!
Big 12 gaming the system? Importance of road wins? Those sliding quads? Commitee chair Charles McClelland answers our questions.theathletic.com
hell - we take care of our own business - win out and get at least to the Big 12 championship game - and we don't have to worry about Baylor being in Omaha either.
Baylor still has other tough conference games where they could stumble...Let's hope they beat the Cougars today. We all want to be back in 1st place! Providing we beat WV too.
The one seeds will be interesting now with Arizona losing at home to Washington State. If you go look at their wins and losses they are not a one seed in my opinion. Now the committee really seems to value who you beat and not who you lose too, so we shall see.
But man they have some ugly losses.
But man they have some ugly losses.
WSU loss is Q1b (fringe Q2a), Arizona probably isn't dropping much, if at all.
If one views UA's position on 1 line too high, that's a separate matter.
That's the biggest thing I think I've gotten from this years committee, a bunch of good wins with a few bad losses outweighs a handful of good wins with no bad losses. Except for Alabama who only has 2 Q1 wins the last I checked and a lot of Q1 losses, thats the one team where I really don't see an argument putting them ahead of ISU. I don't think Kansas should be either but I at least get the argument that they have great non con wins
Agree they value wins way more than losses (Kansas) but will be interesting to see what they do with Alabama. 7 losses and 2-6 in Q1 but somehow still a 2-seed in most brackets???
Some of the studio folks at ESPN seem to compliment the Big 12 with clinched teeth. It's kind of weird but not surprising.
They'll be screaming about the B1G here the next two-three weeks.