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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1106893, member: 652"] Thinking of a way to improve college basketball. What if the NCAA allowed a champions league during its basketball season to reward teams for success and have additional meaningful basketball games during the college season. NCAA could sell the games for another TV contract and generate revenue and we fans would see cool games. Their are 34 conferences like the UEFA(European soccer governing body) Champions league each conference would get 1 bid and then the better conferences would get more bids. You would seed the teams in different pots and have a draw to get completely different matchups. 64 teams total into 16 groups. Teams would play the 3 other teams in their group and then the top team or two top teams would advance and then you would keep having draws matching teams up until you got 2 teams. This type of tournament would be ongoing during the regular season and would make games interesting throughout the season. Leading until the actual NCAA tournament in March. Instead, of saying a bunch of creampuffs on the non-conference schedules their would be actually appealing games for the 64 teams that qualified each year for the champions league and it would conference games matter throughout the season to try and qualify for the next year's competition Multi-bid Leagues (25 total spots) Big Ten (4): Michigan State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio State ACC (4): Virginia, Duke, Syracuse, North Carolina Big 12 (3): Kansas, , Oklahoma, Iowa State American Athletic(3): Louisville, Connecticut, Cincinnati Big East(3): Providence, Villanova, Creighton SEC (2): Florida, Kentucky, Pac-12 (2): Arizona, UCLA, Mountain West (2): New Mexico, San Diego State Atlantic 10 (2): Saint Louis, VCU The other 23 conferences get one bid each, given to their regular-season champion from last season. So you'd also have Gonzaga, Wichita State. Harvard and other known smaller-conference entities in the mix. You actually make the college regular season matter a lot more. [/QUOTE]

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