Big East Tournament to include all 18 teams in 2013-14

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Not even my father -- who's missed only 1 game in the 15-year history of the Big Ten Tournament -- could sit through this whopper of a marathon. The #15-18 seeds will play Monday "play-in" games somewhere in the New York area before the action moves to Madison Square Garden Tuesday-Saturday.

Will Spike Lee show up for the play-in games?

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...hange-postseason-basketball-tournament-format
 

Welcome to the everybody gets a trophy society. Even the 16 team format is too many.

It should a 12 team tournament played Wednesday-Saturday.
 

Well, if you're going to award your auto bid based on your conference tournament, you probably should let all the teams play from a fairness standpoint.

SS, I'm curious, which game did your father miss?
 

OSUfan said:
Well, if you're going to award your auto bid based on your conference tournament, you probably should let all the teams play from a fairness standpoint.

SS, I'm curious, which game did your father miss?
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Why?
 



He already said why. Fairness. If the auto-bid for an entire conference is awarded to the winner of a tournament then keeping some members of the conference from having their chance to win it. You could argue that they didn't get it done in the regular season (a position that I'm not totally opposed to) but the auto-bid isn't going to the regular season winner either.
 

GoAUpher said:
He already said why. Fairness. If the auto-bid for an entire conference is awarded to the winner of a tournament then keeping some members of the conference from having their chance to win it. You could argue that they didn't get it done in the regular season (a position that I'm not totally opposed to) but the auto-bid isn't going to the regular season winner either.
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Why is everyone so quick to dismiss the regular season.

Not sure how many regular season games they play, but roughly 18 games should be enough to play your way to the top 12 or whatever number they pick.

Should the Big Dance have all 350+ teams instead of 68?
 

There are several conferences who don't let all of their members into their conference tournaments. Why should the Big East be any different? This is especially so now that they have gotten much weaker as a basketball conference. It should never be more than 12, regardless of conference size. The top 4 get byes, and play the rest out. If you played poorly enough to not make the top 12 in the regular season, you've forfeited your right to complain about "fairness". Playing with 16 was bad enough. Playing with 18 is downright asinine.
 

station19 said:
Why is everyone so quick to dismiss the regular season.

Not sure how many regular season games they play, but roughly 18 games should be enough to play your way to the top 12 or whatever number they pick.

Should the Big Dance have all 350+ teams instead of 68?
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I'm not dismissing it. I was just outlining the argument for putting all the teams in the conference tourney in response to your question. Honestly, I can see both sides of the coin but ultimately I don't care one way or the other since I won't watch the "play in" games.

I am very opposed to expanding the NCAA tourney further. But I actually care about The Dance. I do not care about the Big East tourney.
 



Unless the Big East can guarantee that every team has an equally difficult conference schedule (which I guess would mean each team playing all other teams once on a neutral floor...yikes) then it would be nearly impossible to determine which of the poorer teams actually deserved to be in the Big East tournament. There will be several teams with severely unbalanced schedules, as there already are. Might as well let everyone in the Big East tournament, or, you know, not have an 18 team conference.
 

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