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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2118979, member: 289"]
An immodest proposal. There are 351 teams in Division 1, 302 in division II and 416 in Division 3. That's 1069 teams. Half of Division 1 belongs in Division II and I don't know that there is a lot of difference between D2 and D3. It's not football where you need 100 players. Each year, everybody goes through this hand-wringing: will we make it or will we get snubbed? The working of the committee are a mystery.

Let's rank the 1069 teams by some mathematical system. Have the bottom 90 teams play 45 games to get it to 1024 teams. Then play a round to get it to 512, another to 256, another to 128 and another to 64. The higher seeded team would host and not every game has to be on national TV. This would be to qualify for the NCAA tournament. the Final 64 would be in the Division I tournament. You'd do your brackets at that time. The 64 Division II teams that went the farthest but did not make the Division I tournament would play in a Division II tournament, (and the D1 teams  that don't really belong there  might drop down to D2 to have a chance at a national title knowing that they might still win their way into D1 tournament instead. The 64 D3 teams that went the farther but didn't make the top 64 would play in a D3 tournament.

This would give everybody a shot, maximize the chances of those beloved upsets, secure the best possible tournament fields, make even more money and get rid of all the BS and March Angryness. The focus would be on the games, to be played, not the blind resumes. if your seeidng was #70 and it should have been #60, you aren't going to lose sleep over that.

I know...:confused::oops::noidea::crazy::vomit::bat::rolling:Oh Lord

But think about it. It might be fun...
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