Once again, I know that this will never happen.\u00a0 But the Lunatic also wants to add games that help evaluate teams.\u00a0 Instead of allowing more teams into the tournament, lets add a set of games.\u00a0 The NCAA tried this once and it failed – but it was bound to fail.\u00a0 It was the bracket busters – it set up one game between the top non-power conference teams.\u00a0 The idea was that the win would bump up the winner’s profiles.\u00a0 But the problem was that winning those games just was not enough of a mover.<\/p>\n
One problem that I have is what North Texas went through – they never got to play a power conference team.<\/p>\n
So, here is my proposal.\u00a0 We are going to add two weeks to the schedule, with games that will not count against the overall total that a team can play.<\/p>\n
There were 100 teams that made the NCAA and NIT.\u00a0 These teams will get rewarded with a tournament to start the season.\u00a0 We can have 6 tournaments of 16 teams and one of 4 teams.\u00a0 The tournament will redo the Sweet 16 teams, the teams that made the Second Round, etc. with one rule – it needs to guarantee that 4 of the teams in the tournament are from conferences outside of the Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, Pac 12 or Big East.\u00a0 The top 4 non-power conference teams will host the first two rounds where winners play winners and losers play losers – that means everyone gets at least 2 games against what likely will be talented teams (and the non-power teams finally get to play them at home).\u00a0 Then, the winners of each group of 4 will play at neutral sites that are famous to try to get some excitement (Madison Square Garden, for example).\u00a0 At a minimum, non-power teams will get two quality opponents, and could get 4.<\/p>\n
Then, we will add one week to the season at the end of December \/ first week of January.\u00a0 No one can schedule a game during this week because everyone is going to be told where they are playing.\u00a0 We will take the current NET ranking and use it to create 8 team tournaments – top 8 play each other, 9-16 play each other, etc.\u00a0 A couple of forced rules.\u00a0 Each group of 8 has to have at least 2 non-power conference teams.\u00a0 We likely can’t find enough neutral sites for these, and we want to be able to have tons of fans – so in this case, we will let whoever is the top team in the grouping host the tournament.\u00a0 It will work just like the holiday tournaments, which will allow everyone to get 3 games against teams considered around the same skill level.\u00a0 And if you are a non-power conference team near the top of the rankings, you are likely guaranteed to play one game against a power conference team – which can really improve your profile.<\/p>\n
We can always simply increase the numbers into the NCAA tournament – but then we need to figure out how that increase doesn’t just end up having all the non-power conference teams playing in the first round.\u00a0 If you win your conference tournament, you should automatically make the Round of 64.\u00a0 And if the numbers of the NCAA tournament increase, it has to come with the rule that you have to have a winning record in your conference.\u00a0 More access should mean more access to the teams who tend to not have a chance to get in.\u00a0 It should go to a team like Dayton who comes in 2nd place in the Atlantic 10 and gets ignored because they lose in the conference tournament final, not to a power conference team that went 16-16 for the season.<\/p>\n
We know this won’t happen.\u00a0 But could you imagine how fun this would be.\u00a0 On New Year’s Eve, you would have a tournament that would basically have the top 8 teams at that moment play each other.\u00a0 It is probably too hard to organize, which is why it won’t happen.\u00a0 But I think it would solve a lot of the problems for the Selection Committee.<\/p>\n
Well – we are 10 minutes away from San Diego State and Florida Atlantic tipping offf.\u00a0 I am so excited – it is going to be a fun night of basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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