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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4206243, member: 1969"]
I think you want a 64 team field not a 68 team field especially since you don't like mid majors either.  But at the end of the day 68 teams have to get picked,

Iowa St
Michigan
San Francisco
Wyoming
Marquette
Memphis

Who are you going to put in to replace all those teams.  If its ACC teams, then its time for the ACC to up its game.

With respect to the MWC and the WCC they actually played much better than they normally do out of conference.   MWC may have had a bit stronger out of conference metrics as a conference compared to the ACC.   Fact is The MWC, WCC, and ACC all played at about the same level before January.    I was tracking it in December and saying at the time the MWC and WCC were going to get more seeds than normal.   They clearly did play better.

WCC is higher because you now have 5 out of 10 teams performing well, rather than just the traditional 3.  That helps everybody in the conference.

Records in all of those conferences have about the same relevance.    You can't just let teams in with good records from the ACC because they are the ACC and they were good in the past.

The tournament is heavily shaped by how conferences perform, as a group before January 1.
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