NCAA Tournament Selection: Theory and Application

[Omaha1]

A disproportionate number of A10 teams at the bottom of the at large field it seems. Let's see how that actually works out.

[stever20]

A10 had
Dayton
GW
St Joe's
VCU
and St Bonnies auto bid

The other 4 teams besides St Bonnie's are in bracket matrix right now as in the tourney. Only GW is really all that low(though VCU is now after their loss).

[Fieldhouse Flyer]

I'm in favor of choosing the NCAA tourney bids prior to the conference championships. IMO, that gives you the best field of 64. You grab the best mid-majors instead of the upset bids and you don't reward the team that gets hot or has a favorable matchup in their conference tourney.

I totally disagree. There isn't a damn thing wrong with the tournament. Not a thing.

EMT – stever20 is right, and for many reasons. I don’t think that you thought this one through before you posted.

(1) Your proposal would eliminate the sole reason for holding March’s conference tournaments, which generate hundreds of $millions for NCAA Division I conferences, their member schools, and the cities that host them.

(2) There is no point of holding a conference tournament in March if there is no reward. Fans wouldn’t waste their money to attend them, and the conference tournaments would be a complete waste of time.

(3) Conferences have multi-year TV contracts of differing durations with various TV networks. If conference tournaments were cancelled due to very poor ticket sales, the conferences would find themselves in a breach of contract situation. Who would want to watch an 'exhibition tournament' in March?

(4) Most conferences play unbalanced conference schedules. The conference tournaments gives teams the opportunity to compensate for that imbalance by advancing to the semifinals or Conference Championship game.

(5) It's better to reward a team that gets hot at the end of the season than to reward a team that gets cold at the end of the season.

(6) Big East teams have benefitted by doing better than predicted in the BE Tournament and earning a place in the Big Dance or a better seed. Why throw that opportunity away?

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