Then the best of the best get in the tournament with teams from other conference

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Mar 29, 2025
12:42:10pm

BYUtka Truly Addicted User

Then the best of the best get in the tournament with teams from other conference

while the bottom half of that conference do better next year.

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BYUtka

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POLL: MASSIVE changes to men's tourney

Xenon

Mar 29, 11:12am

other: no changes

rotorhead

Mar 29, 11:14am

Must have a winning conference record to get in (unless you win an auto bid).

BYUtka

Mar 29, 11:14am

I agree with this; if talking format changes per Xenon options, then still none

rotorhead

Mar 29, 11:22am

what if your conference collectively somehow ends up exactly .500 conf record?

It's A Bowling Ball

Mar 29, 11:23am

Must have a .500 or better record to get in

HRCougar

Mar 29, 11:28am

If your goal is to get the best teams in the tourney, this isn't it

Projectoor

Mar 29, 11:31am

Define "best."

BYUtka

Mar 29, 11:45am

If you took the Sweet 16 teams and put them all in the same conference...

Projectoor

Mar 29, 12:00pm

Which sweet 16 teams had losing records? And we don't know what it would have

BYUtka

Mar 29, 12:21pm

How can you say the SEC is overrated?

Mar 29, 12:31pm

With words. It's easy. Try it. The...SEC...is...WAY... Overrated.

BYUtka

Mar 29, 12:41pm

Ah, so it’s just a conclusory statement based on your opinion. Got it

Mar 29, 12:44pm

What if one conference had all the best teams... It was a scenario

Projectoor

Mar 29, 12:39pm

Then the best of the best get in the tournament with teams from other conference

BYUtka

Mar 29, 12:42pm

To what end? Do we want the most competitive games?

Projectoor

Mar 29, 1:43pm

We don’t want losers in the ncaa tournament. If you lose more than half your

kcca

Mar 29, 2:17pm

I want the regular season to mean something. I want teams to have a chance.

BYUtka

Mar 29, 5:44pm

If you aren't even in the top half of your conference you don't deserve a chance

mudpupper

Mar 29, 12:14pm

Why? The SEC has proved that 1. Every team that got in deserved it; and 2. They

Mar 29, 11:40am

You have to be a top 10 conference to get an autobid. Lower ranked conferences

Mar 29, 11:24am

Go back to 64 teams and reduce the number of Div I conferences to 20.

kcca

Mar 29, 11:29am

Two changes are required and only two.

Mitty

Mar 29, 11:36am

This is the way

temosabe

Mar 29, 11:56am

I want competitive games in the tournament. University ad campaigns

Mar 29, 12:56pm

Even as BYU has been a first four team before, I wish they would get rid of it

TADOW

Mar 29, 11:39am

32 teams, double elimination

Count Cougar

Mar 29, 12:38pm

Nearly every team in the NCAA currently participates in the tourney if you

BigD Coug

Mar 29, 12:38pm

Eliminate biased Quad wins in seeding. Maybe wouldn't benefit BYU but w/b more fair. Weight kenpom, NET, and T-rank.

roseyscenario

Mar 29, 1:57pm

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