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2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament Discussion (Official Thread)

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OhioState001 said:
Is it really fair that MSU gets to play it's first two games in Detroit? I get if 1 and 2 seeds get some location by their home but this is kind of ridiculous.
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top seeds get location priority when possible. it is what it is. texas tech, another 3-seed, plays its first two games in dallas. i mean, if it wasn't going to be msu getting its first two games in detroit, it was going to be 3-seed ttun. on the s-curve, though, msu is the top 3-seed and two spots above ttun.
 
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Jake said:
Having to travel then play the next day sucks, but heaven forbid we get rid of 4 at large berths and just have a 64 team field. Those 9th place teams from the SEC, PAC 12, and ACC deserve their shot. :roll1:
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Of course, at the time there was a semi-legit argument that was made that a lot of leagues were getting 2 bids (the Missouri Valley, WCC, Coloniel, MAC when Kent was good) so they needed the extra space to keep them and the big conferences happy. Of course then, as soon as they added the births, magically all of the 2 bid leagues dried up, to the point you can go 29-3 and still miss out, and all the extra bids went to the newly merging mega powers like the ACC. Go figure.
 
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Bucklion said:
Of course, at the time there was a semi-legit argument that was made that a lot of leagues were getting 2 bids (the Missouri Valley, WCC, Coloniel, MAC when Kent was good) so they needed the extra space to keep them and the big conferences happy. Of course then, as soon as they added the births, magically all of the 2 bid leagues dried up, to the point you can go 29-3 and still miss out, and all the extra bids went to the newly merging mega powers like the ACC. Go figure.
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A team like Oklahoma getting comfortably in is the biggest joke. I get that the "whole body of work" matters, but can you really just blatantly ignore the last part of their season? The committee pretty much did.

Arizona State getting in was hot garbage too. Same thing and didnt even make it out of the 1st round of a weak Pac 12 tourney field.

St Mary's shoulda got in over both of them (MTSU too)

Their new way of determining the at-large bids hugely favors the major conferences.
 
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pac 12...

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