Teams in contention for No. 1 seeds will submit site preferences to NCAA basketball committee (PS)

[OrangeXtreme]

In one of several changes to the NCAA tournament selection and seeding process, teams in contention for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament will submit preferences for their geographic assignments for first- and second-round and regional sites.

The NCAA announced on Monday that it had approved some changes to its tournament selection process and was considering several other suggestions from the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The NABC formed an ah hoc group last month to look at the committee's methods for selecting, seeding and bracketing the teams in the NCAA tournament.

The NCAA's basketball committee will give the tournament's overall No. 1 seed the opportunity to give its preference for which geographic region it would be placed in...

Teams in contention for No. 1 seeds will submit site preferences to NCAA basketball committee

 

[jncuse]

Very practical recommendation that makes sense.

Also noted this farther down... could this be the end of the RPI as a key metric for indicating quality of wins? While they have already minimized the RPI as a standalone number, it is still heavily relied upon for determinining quality wins. Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails. While the PAC12 certainly did not try to game the system lasr year, it's RPI numbers were much better then say those under KenPom. When they were seeded based on the strength of the # of top 50 wins, many predicted they would fail to perform to the seed line. And that is ultimately what happened.

I also heard some coaches recommended to a live feed torture of Joe Lunardi but the NCAA did not approve it.

 

[longtimefan]

Very practical recommendation that makes sense.

Also noted this farther down... could this be the end of the RPI as a key metric for indicating quality of wins? While they have already minimized the RPI as a standalone number, it is still heavily relied upon for determinining quality wins. Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails. While the PAC12 certainly did not try to game the system lasr year, it's RPI numbers were much better then say those under KenPom. When they were seeded based on the strength of the # of top 50 wins, many predicted they would fail to perform to the seed line. And that is ultimately what happened.

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I also heard some coaches recommended to a live feed torture of Joe Lunardi but the NCAA did not approve it.

I understand the Lunardi vote ended in a tie, with one abstention.

 

[dasher]

I understand the Lunardi vote ended in a tie, with one abstention.

That's disappointing.

 

[DonLightfoot]

Personally, I don't like it.

However, if it does come to fruition, I suggest we get our request in today

 

[SBU72]

I haven't read anything about the NCAA discussing allowing perspective top seeds pick their quarter final sites but it puts to my mind this question. Would you trade seeding for picking a site nearer to home to assure a home crowd. Would you prefer a #1 seed but getting left with the last quarter round site available (say out west) or if getting a 4 seed but say playing in NYC? How low a seed would you take to assure such a site?

 

[Briancuse]

I haven't read anything about the NCAA discussing allowing perspective top seeds pick their quarter final sites but it puts to my mind this question. Would you trade seeding for picking a site nearer to home to assure a home crowd. Would you prefer a #1 seed but getting left with the last quarter round site available (say out west) or if getting a 4 seed but say playing in NYC? How low a seed would you take to assure such a site?

You prefer the one seed, because no one seed has every lost, I think playing at Msg would be huge for us this year, but overall it usually doesn't matter where you play. I mean we went to the Final Four this year playing in St Louis and Chicago.