NCAA tournament to 76 teams next season? - "Everybody Gets an Invite!"
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NCAA Tournament Is Reportedly Nearing Expansion
According to a report from On3, the NCAA tournament could expand sooner rather than later.
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I wish they’d go to 64 instead, but that still only about 20% of teams. I don’t think that is an outrageous amount
Edit: here’s how it compares to the Big 4 leagues:
NFL: 44%
MLB: 40%
NBA: 53%
NHL: 50%
I think every team should make it (yeah it would make Selection Sunday less exciting)! Play the first couple of rounds at home courts of deserving teams. I guess this suggestion might end conference tournaments which would suck as well. But it would be something to watch if every team got in...it would likely also end runs of cinderella teams...which I enjoy so maybe this is a bad idea! LOL!
KidSilverhair
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“So, we’ve got this hugely popular thing that’s one of the most lucrative events in all of sports - how can we extract even more short-term revenue out of it while at the same time destroying which makes it so special and popular?”
I've always thought 40% was the "sweet spot."
365 * 40% = 146
So, add an entire round (128) and then 18 PIGs. Maybe drop that to 16 PIGs for a rounder number, so you'd end up with 144 seeds #1-#36 in four regions or #1-#18 in eight regionals.
(Not actually advocating for this idea. Just wondered what the math would yield.)
The 15h Place Big Ten team versus the 9th Place ACC team in a half empty arena, mid afternoon Vegas time!
Can't Wait Baby!!!
Can't Wait Baby!!!
Ugh, this sounds terrible.
But also, in the age we're in, we're gonna need to get as much revenue as possible. In this scenario I assume we get a lot of the Big 12 in the tournament, which would hopefully increase dollars to the conference and ISU.
But also, in the age we're in, we're gonna need to get as much revenue as possible. In this scenario I assume we get a lot of the Big 12 in the tournament, which would hopefully increase dollars to the conference and ISU.
This works if most teams are on the same level. But if they expanded to 96 or 128 or what you are proposing, they'd just add nearly every P4 team and wouldn't add an equivalent number of small schools that make the tournament fun to watch.
The NCAA tournament is perfect. So of course creed, money, TV, and the NCAA want to dilute it by adding more ****** P4 teams.
I know viewership was still just fine last March but I can't be the only one that feels less and less excited every year for college sports with how watered down and lobsided things feel.
Well we'll find out with Iowa in 2027...Think how bad you've have to be to NOT make the field of 144 as a P5 program.
If the play in games are all the bubble at large teams I'm all for it. Would be interesting games. Let all the 16 and 15 seeded teams into the round of 64. They already won their conference tourney to make the dance, it isn't fair that the small schools then have to win a play-in game.
I don't think any more then 76 would be good though.
I don't think any more then 76 would be good though.
You forgot one:
FBS football: 8.8%
Not too long ago it was 2.9% and people were screaming that adding any more teams was a mistake. Before that it was 1.5%
Anything and everything that can be done to ruin college sports…. that’s what they are trying to do.
Agreed. People always say “well there’s only 2 or 3 teams that can win a championship in CFB!”.
But that’s not what any postseason in any league is about. It’s about giving teams who qualify the opportunity to win a championship. The 8 seed in the NBA or the last wild card team in the MLB are not going to win a championship. But they qualified to have an opportunity. Why should less than 10% of CFB get an opportunity to win a championship.
Quite right. An 8 seed (which at the time put the team somewhere around the 9th to 10th percentile of NCAA div 1 teams has won the NCAA MBB championship before. And several 11 seeds have made the final four. That is around 12th to 13th percentile.
As far as there being only 2 or 3 teams who can win a championship I beg to differ. It took some mental gymnastics by the Committee to give tOSU the 4th spot in the 4 team playoff in 2014. They bumped two very deserving teams from the Big 12 on some sketchy logic. As the 4th to 6th best team tOSU rolled to the National Championship.
