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station19 said:
Bottom line; there are too many D 1 basketball schools(351) and conferences. I still see a split coming in both BB and FB for small and large programs/conferences.
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Probably true. But, for my money, part of the charm of the tournament is the inclusion of the smaller schools and some of the story lines that develop. I don't need to see the 8th place Big Ten team face the 7th place ACC team in March.
 

golfing18now said:
Probably true. But, for my money, part of the charm of the tournament is the inclusion of the smaller schools and some of the story lines that develop. I don't need to see the 8th place Big Ten team face the 7th place ACC team in March.
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I agree on the charm of the tournament but where is the tipping point? As of now there are 32 conferences. Is that going to keep growing? If so do you add more teams to the tournament or kick out more at-large teams?
 

station19 said:
I agree on the charm of the tournament but where is the tipping point? As of now there are 32 conferences. Is that going to keep growing? If so do you add more teams to the tournament or kick out more at-large teams?
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All fair questions. I don't see a rapid expansion in the number of conferences and corresponding auto-bids, but admittedly I don't follow it closely. I wouldn't mind losing the three at-large bids that were gained in the last few years because the at-large pool is already weak enough, in my opinion. When we start including teams that have a losing record in conference and have three mediocre wins (total) away from home, aren't we watering down the tournament enough already?
 

golfing18now said:
All fair questions. I don't see a rapid expansion in the number of conferences and corresponding auto-bids, but admittedly I don't follow it closely. I wouldn't mind losing the three at-large bids that were gained in the last few years because the at-large pool is already weak enough, in my opinion. When we start including teams that have a losing record in conference and have three mediocre wins (total) away from home, aren't we watering down the tournament enough already?
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Yeah I guess you're right. I forgot that option.:)

64 is a perfect number. This year's edition might factor in though.:rolleyes:
 

I wish they'd just get rid of the +4.

32 Conference Winners.
32 At-Large.

The play-ins just unnecessarily complicate things.
 


cjbfbp said:
Whether it's allowed or not, I don't know but I haven't seen two teams from the same conference play each other in the first round proper. Either he made a mistake with his placement of Iowa or with his placement of Minnesota. Odd that he didn't catch that.
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It used to be that two teams from the same conference couldn't be in the same half of a bracket, so there was no chance of a meeting before the Elite 8. (That also necessarily assumed no conference would get more than 8 teams.) With the expanded conferences, they obviously can't do that, but I think they still try not to allow any meetings before the round of 32 at the earliest.
 

howeda7 said:
It used to be that two teams from the same conference couldn't be in the same half of a bracket, so there was no chance of a meeting before the Elite 8. (That also necessarily assumed no conference would get more than 8 teams.) With the expanded conferences, they obviously can't do that, but I think they still try not to allow any meetings before the round of 32 at the earliest.
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At worst, teams from the same conference would meet at the sweet sixteen. If it's sooner than that it's a couple high seeds.
I believe you also can't play a team you played in the regular season in the first or second round. (So we can't play Syracuse in round one or two).

Regarding Lunardi having us vs Iowa in round 2, I think that reflects on how he does some of these changes.
He has a base bracket and they he moves teams around a bit as the week goes on, but he's not doing the full process everytime.
He's just sliding teams around as they win and lose.
 

"Big" experts (palm, decourcy) have the Gophers and cornshuckers both not in the field on their selection process show on BTN.
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Likely to be passed. “<a href="https://twitter.com/kinikanik">@kinikanik</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNLunardi">@ESPNLunardi</a> Minnesota doesn't deserve to be in”</p>— Joe Lunardi (@ESPNLunardi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNLunardi/statuses/440708830302060544">March 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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MadtownGopher said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Likely to be passed. “<a href="https://twitter.com/kinikanik">@kinikanik</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNLunardi">@ESPNLunardi</a> Minnesota doesn't deserve to be in”</p>— Joe Lunardi (@ESPNLunardi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNLunardi/statuses/440708830302060544">March 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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The sad thing is, odds are that was a Gopher fan. We're such sunny optimists.
 






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