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Should NCAA Tournament Expand?

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Should the NCAA change the number of teams in the Basketball Tournament?

  • No, 65 teams is the right amount.

    Votes: 29 85.3%

  • Yes, they should go to 128 teams.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, everyone should be in (like HS in Ohio).

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Yes, but to a lower number, 65 is too many.

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • Total voters
    34
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Zurp said:
But I thought it was funny what the jerk-off was saying on Rover's Morning Glory - that with 128 teams, they're going to have to start "March Madness" in December. Uhh - I know you don't have to have a PhD in Mathematics to be on the radio, but you probably need to have passed 6th grade math. It's one more flipping game!
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One more game, yes, but it would probably take up 4 days of play unless they double the venues.

And to answer the question, no.
 
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RedskinBuckfan summarized up nicely. The conference championships (is there a conference that doesn't have one?) are for the lower seeds. Yes, there are several where the best team does not win the tournament, but that is why there are 'at large' berths. Those deserving but did not get the automatic entry (ACC, Big 10, Big East, regularly field 6-8 teams in the Big Dance, but only one team wins the conference tournament).

Maybe limiting the number of other conference invitees? Then a 14-13 team would get in before the #7 Big 10 conference team (18-13) that got banged around in a superior league. Makes the tournament too long, and keeps the kids out of school too long :biggrin: . Heck, I like seeing the big boys tee it up in the second and third games.

What I WOULD like to see, is the conference winner get some more rest between the title game and the start of the big dance. I think we got winded last year. Maybe the key is to win in the standings, but then dump the first game of the conference tournament, to give the legs some rest.....

:gobucks3: :osu4: :banger:
 
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Gotta go with NO on this one.

1. 65 is a lot as it is, many mediocre teams get in.
2. Yep, team #129 would bitch
3. It would effectively kill the NIT. Yeah, that's no huge deal, but it is an old and storied tourney.
 
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...a move they claimed would allow as many as four opening-round games to be played in Dayton, Ohio, instead of the one now played between the two lowest-seeded teams in the field.
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I say add a few more. The new games would most likely be played in Dayton which would bring more OOS revenue into the Great State of Ohio.

:oh::io:
 
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Yes, the number should be changed. Reduced to 48 or fewer. That gives not only an incentive to the smaller conferences to win their tournaments, but it also gives the top teams in the big conferences incentive to win their tournament and get a first round bye. It also gives the NIT a lot more bite, if team four or five of the Big Ten is playing, as opposed to six or seven. Watering down the level of play in the NCAA tournament is not acceptable, even if it does add a couple more dollars to the networks bank account.
 
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I vote yes.

The NCAA tournament and the TV contract with CBS are THE source of revenue for the NCAA. That money gets distributed to athletic departments, who use it for scholarships for student-athletes.

I am taking a class taught by Wright State's AD right now, and am planning on interning in the athletic department there this fall. The experience so far has really opened my eyes. For a school like WSU, this is a really big deal. It opens the door for the conferences like the Horizon League to send multiple teams to the postseason. Right now, each game you play in the NCAA tournament is worth over $100,000 in revenue for your school. While Gene Smith can find that in the cushions of the lobby outside his office, it's a huge deal at a place like WSU where athletics only generate $1.5 million in revenue on their own, and to meet the budget rely mostly on money from the NCAA, money which is generated almost exclusively by the men's basketball tournament. On top of that, WSU does not have a football team, and are not in a BCS conference, so they don't see a cent of that revenue.

Expanding the NCAA men's basketball tournament will go a long way toward distributing revenue to a wider range of institutions, and it will enrich the student-athlete experience for many young people, and in sports beyond men's basketball. That's what this is all about - not CBS, Budweiser, team #66 or team #129.
 
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NCAA Tourney Proposal Update30th June, 2006 - 1:15 amAP - On Thursday, the men's basketball committee announced it rejected a coaches' proposal to nearly double the size of the NCAA Tournament field from 65 to 128, calling expansion unnecessary, and not imminent.

"There is no enthusiasm on the part of the committee to expand the tournament at this time," Craig Littlepage, chairman of the men's basketball committee, said in a statement.
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Well, I guess that settles it.
 
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