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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 3715800, member: 229"]
I haven't dug into this at all so I'm just shooting from the hip here.

18 teams for D1 sounds fine minus the auto bids.  If we want auto-bids, then I would definitely put way more stock in a team who wins the regular season conference title.  I might expand to 24.  I think it it's actually good for the game.  Besides men's basketball, what are the biggest NCAA D1 tournaments?  (I didn't look.)

D2 has about the same number of total teams (75ish) and their tourney only has 12 teams.  Not enough.  The D2 footprint is huge covering, for example, Colorado (3), Tennessee (2), Missouri (3), Florida (8), Georgia (3), Utah (1) and even West Virginia (4) and Alabama (2).  WV has more D2 schools than Massachusetts go figure.  I think with this tournament I'd regionalize it and go 4 brackets of 4 teams (West, Midwest, South and North) .  16 teams to start, maybe as many as 24.

D3 has 250 schools playing lacrosse and a 36 team tournament (at least they did in 2019.).  I think they may be reducing the size of the tournament which would be a terrible idea imo.  36 is cool.  With that number you're getting most of the best teams, not all but most. (see my Lasell example).  And I'm not concerned with who has a legit chance to win, I'm more concerned with rewarding teams (kids) who had great seasons.

I like seeing more teams included.  D2 in particular is too small.   There are a lot of good teams left out and some really good players.
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