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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4208925, member: 289"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://sagarin.usatoday.com/2022-2/college-basketball-team-ratings-2021-22/?msclkid=58649f71a54911ec8125761a679092ea[/URL] We could eliminate all selection controversy and allow everyone just to focus on the games by including everybody based on a mathematical system like the one above, rather than meetings behind closed doors. There are 358 teams. In the first round, have the bottom 102 teams play the next 102 teams above them. Team #155, (College of Charleston, 17-15) would play team #358, (Mississippi Valley State 2-26) on their home court. Team #156 UC Riverside 14-12), would play team #357 (Indiana/Purdue at Indianapolis, 1-26) on their home court, etc. That would leave you with 256 teams for the second round. They would play 128 games on the home court of the higher seeded teams, which would produce 128 winners who would be matched up in round three, also on the home court of the higher seeded team. This could be done over a 2 week period and would lead us in a field of 64. Now you got to regionals in neutral courts and pass out the NCAA bracket sheets for the fans. It's doable. Now you have literally everybody involved. People aren't going to argue over whether they should have bene seeded 99ths rather than 100th. No more parsing "blind resumes" of mediocre teams to see who is in and who is out. No more coaches getting fired for not making the tournament. No more NIT, CBI or TBC. Texas A&M (23-12), #51, would play the winner of #206 (San Diego 13-16) and #307 (Morgan State 9-14) in the round of 256 and if the favorites all won, #78 (Toledo 25-7) in College Station to get to the round of 64. Syracuse is ranked #68, ahead of several teams that made the tournament. (We didn't make it into a 68 team tournament with our #68 ranking.) In this proposal, SU would play the winner of the first round game between #189 (Pennsylvania 12-16), and #324 (St. Francis of New York, 9-20) in the Dome in the round of 256. If the favorites all won, we'd play #61 (Dayton, 23-10), in Dayton for a spot in the field of 64. [/QUOTE]

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