Honestly, I find all the Power 6 tournaments boring as ****. That includes the Big 12, too, unless ISU plays a vital role in it (which, face it, has happened about once in the past 11 seasons). At least this year has potential to be different.
I don't even have much interest in multi-bid "non-major" tourneys. When it's "win and you're in, lose and you aren't" — those are fun.
Championship Week suffers a severe drop-off after that.
Big East Tournament has had some exciting games over the years, but it's bloated and full of itself.
I admit, the double-bye concept was a stroke of television revenue genius, but it's a competitive smokescreen: It gives the appearance of meaningful games. In reality, it's a simple way to give a final nudge to its NCAA tournament contenders. It helps bubble teams, it elevates seeding for its locks, it rarely hurts the top dogs. Providence and DePaul could play for the title this year, and we'd have 12 BE teams in the tournament instead of 10.
Big East no-lose bracketing structure
ACC Tournament survives mostly on its role as the conference tournament Granddaddy. Less dynamic than BE; just as meaningless. Typically: "Who'll get a No. 1 seed, Duke or UNC? The loser is doomed to the dreaded No. 2 seed. Regular season already answered that question, although roles may be reversed.
Big Ten: I respected the conference more when it refused to hold a tournament. Many seasons, it's just been a collection of marginal teams trying not to suck, and upper-crust teams that have little to lose as far as seeding (to be honest, that's the case with most Big 6 leagues - it's just that Big Ten generally involves unwatchable games in the process)
Pac-10/12 has sometimes been mildly interesting, mainly because it gets so little mainstream coverage in regular season. This year, though, it'd be like watching the NIT.
End of Soapbox Rant for now. :unsure:
