Jeff Goodman: ACC coaches will propose an all-inclusive NCAA tournament with 346 teams

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I mean ... they'll probably just make conference tournaments like de-facto "play in tournaments", which they already sort've are?
 


Cant say that i am a fan of this. Would make the regular season too superfluous. I enjoy selection sunday and tge speculation all season of which teams are going to make the final 68. Also find the final 68 a useful measuring tool to define a successful or unsuccessful season.

However i can see why the coaches would like such a tourney because of such an irregular situation this year.
 


I think this would be great for this year. Definitely get a lot of buzz going. Without non-conference games being played, the selection process would be extremely difficult and a lot of teams would be left out. At least if everyone gets a shot, all that can be debated is seeding.
 







There will be some exciting games that for sure. Still will be plenty of upsets when a no name school beats a sub par team like Stanford or someone who normally wouldn't have been in the tourney but still has a lot of name recognition.

Also, what will the $ value be on a perfect bracket?
 

coolhandgopher said:
This has Jim Boeheim's fingerprints all over it. That whiney ass has been advocating for expanding the tourney to ridiculous numbers for years, it's his wet dream come true.
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He’s one of the main ones. Naturally, K is the ringleader of this nonsense.

Coolhand, hope all is well with you.
 





So, understand purists being against this but it's a strange year and time and think it would be fun as a 1 time thing (understand the fear that once you open the barn door, etc). Anyway, if my math it right, you would have 90 games over the first Thursday to Sunday weekend, dropping the field to 256. Then you 4 more weekends to get to title. Teams would have to win 8 (or 9 if play on first weekend) games to win the whole thing. Eliminate conference tournaments and time frame is pretty equal. I'm in (this year only).
 

Ya, pretty close to two more games to win it if some bottom teams had playin games to the bracket.
Certainly very doable. Why have they resisted this prior to now?
Would the NIT pickup the losers from the field at the 64 point? Would teams be willing to play?
Do we have fans by March?
Not opposed to idea but I expect the Gophers to be solidly in the field of 68.
 


TNGophfan said:
So, understand purists being against this but it's a strange year and time and think it would be fun as a 1 time thing (understand the fear that once you open the barn door, etc). Anyway, if my math it right, you would have 90 games over the first Thursday to Sunday weekend, dropping the field to 256. Then you 4 more weekends to get to title. Teams would have to win 8 (or 9 if play on first weekend) games to win the whole thing. Eliminate conference tournaments and time frame is pretty equal. I'm in (this year only).
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It would only work if you eliminate conf tournaments. But then why would the big confs give up their TV money for their conf tournys? Tough sell, I bet.
 

I can sort of see the logic if this is a 1 year deal only due to lack of (or minimal) non-conference games. Maybe recoup some of last year's revenue too?
 

They should get rid of the conference tournaments. They're awful. They don't reward the best teams from the long conference seasons at all. The team that finishes first in the regular seasom should get the automatic tournammet slot.

These conference tournaments are a money grab. That's it. The Big Ten never should have implemented one.
 

TruthSeeker said:
They should get rid of the conference tournaments. They're awful. They don't reward the best teams from the long conference seasons at all. The team that finishes first in the regular seasom should get the automatic tournammet slot.

These conference tournaments are a money grab. That's it. The Big Ten never should have implemented one.
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TV money. I'm afraid that's the long and short of it, and that's not changing any time soon.
 



Doesn't sound like it's going to happen.

But, as I understand it, the idea behind it was based on a big IF -

IF covid impacts the season, and teams are not able to play a full schedule, then the argument is that it's not "fair" to exclude teams from the tournament when they didn't have a full opportunity to play their way into the tournament.

Ergo, the fairest solution is to let everybody in the tournament.

As a one-year experiment, might be kind of fun.
 

They’ve gotta be careful not to kill the golden goose.

expanding to an all inclusive tourney would definitely kill ratings of the last month of the regular season and conference tourneys.
bubble watch is no more - no reason for a casual fan to watch a Minnesota Michigan game if it isn’t for a conference title
Auto bids are no longer - no reason for a casual fan to watch a smaller conference tourney
 


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