KD says NCAA tournament should be expanded...

[Dr Z]

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[GP1]

Whenever I hear someone in college athletics say something should be expanded, I cringe. The NCAA Tournament doesn't need to be expanded, they need institute one rule that would keep many of the undeserving major conference schools out..... If you don't have a .500 record in your conference regular season, the ONLY way to make the Tournament is to win your conference tournament. No at large bids for those schools.

BTW, blue clothes and blue background with the always depressing 1946 on it is not good television.

[scottditzen]

BTW, blue clothes and blue background with the always depressing 1946 on it is not good television.

I opt for this background...courtesy of Univision.

[Zips Win!]

... If you don't have a .500 record in your conference regular season, the ONLY way to make the Tournament is to win your conference tournament. No at large bids for those schools.

Amen brother. I've been saying this for years...

Now I hear teams like UConn, WVU, Northwestern have shots at bids. It's a bunch of crap..

[Zip Watcher]

Amen brother. I've been saying this for years...

Now I hear teams like UConn, WVU, Northwestern have shots at bids. It's a bunch of crap..

Agree entirely .. you should be over .500 in your league.

Go Zips!

[ZipGB8]

Amen brother. I've been saying this for years...

Now I hear teams like UConn, WVU, Northwestern have shots at bids. It's a bunch of crap..

Agreed, or at least it adds in a regulation. Like if these conferences want to keep expanding to the point where there is 20 teams in it, they need to regulate the at-large bids. The more bids that go to the power-6 conferences, the less mid-majors have a chance. And each year, there is about 10 mid-major schools who are deserving of a tournament bid, especially for beating a Top 25 team or a Top 50 RPI team. And it's unfortunate that those schools don't get too many chances to play them because of their general non-conference scheduling. I even think the Atlantic 10 with 14 teams now should have more than 1 at-large bid outside the tournament winner. They should have about 3 at-large bids. The Mountain West as well produces 4 or 5 20 win teams every year and some of them get shut out.

The Big East with 16 teams has about 8 teams get to the tournament every year and at least 2 of them barely make it to .500 in their conference. You hear UConn, WVU, Northwestern, and South Florida being considered, even though those teams are slipping and their non-conference SOS are way less than most other Big East teams, but because of the conference they are in, they get looked at first. Creighton, Long Beach State, Harvard, and New Mexico are good mid-major/non power-6 schools that are deserving to be in the tournament but might not get in if they don't win their conference tournament.

So I agree that the tournament should not expand. There would be more games played, more courts to be used, and it would just encourage more conference shifting. This all started in 2005 when teams began to realize that unless they were in the power-6 conferences they would have to win 25/26 games to get a bid.