NCAA Tournament Expansion

[orange79]

17 and 15 rutgers vs 16 and 16 vandy should be tons of fun.

A face-off of two equally-talented teams, with EVERYTHING on the line! Win or go home!

-----Gus Johnson, probably

 

[Briancuse]

A face-off of two equally-talented teams, with EVERYTHING on the line! Win or go home!

-----Gus Johnson, probably

Cbs needs to sign gus for March. He used to be the voice of march.

 

[Blanko97]

The NBA playoffs has 16 teams and the playoffs take over two months. How would that possibly work with at least quadruple the teams?

It wouldn’t, but if the goal is for the champion to be the most deserving, then that’s the only way you can say it’ll happen more times than not.

 

[RF2044]

The NBA playoffs has 16 teams and the playoffs take over two months. How would that possibly work with at least quadruple the teams?

Well, the NBA playoff format is a series, compared to multiple single elimination games (2) being played every week..

 

[Eric15]

It wouldn’t, but if the goal is for the champion to be the most deserving, then that’s the only way you can say it’ll happen more times than not.

I agree that the NCAA Tournament is simultaneously incredibly entertaining and also a terrible way to determine a champion. One of the bigger paradoxes in sports.

 

[althea]

I agree that the NCAA Tournament is simultaneously incredibly entertaining and also a terrible way to determine a champion. One of the bigger paradoxes in sports.

Maybe that is why it is so entertaining. Win or go home.

 

[Blanko97]

I agree that the NCAA Tournament is simultaneously incredibly entertaining and also a terrible way to determine a champion. One of the bigger paradoxes in sports.

100% I love it though

 

[baggerbob]

I agree that the NCAA Tournament is simultaneously incredibly entertaining and also a terrible way to determine a champion. One of the bigger paradoxes in sports.

But what makes it special and so popular is it's a win or go home. It's not made to crown the best team . It's set up to crown the luckiest team that's playing the best over 3 weeks.

 

[jncuse]

16 years old, but it still holds.

 

[jncuse]

I'm not opposed to that idea, but if the NCAA has an opportunity to get more teams advancing, would you think they want smaller bracket buster schools, or larger power conference schools. They want eyeballs and money.

Which is the reason I'm against expansion.

Expansion to give smaller conference teams the benefit of the doubt is fine. But we all know what will happen if they expand the tournament... water it down even more for what a P5 team needs to do.

 

[Surfan06001]

Honestly I’m not even a big fan of the way it’s set up *now.*. I think a low major team that won its conference tournament has more of a right to be in the field of 64 than a 17-15 Big 10 team. Let them be in the play in games.

 

[Surfan06001]

I keep telling people that we as fans and the general public can easily stop this expansion from happening. We just need to stop everyone from gambling on March Madness and then stop people from watching all these extra crappy first 4 games.

So that should be pretty easy.

I will say that this talking about expansion is probably music to the ears of Sickos.

 

[jncuse]

When we finally get back to the tournament I want it to be because we clearly got in within the current format. Would feel cheap to get in under a 76 team format, where 6 or 7 more spots get made for P5.