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Post by mcdadenets50 on Mar 14, 2016 21:28:32 GMT -6
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Post by mcdadenets50 on Mar 14, 2016 21:31:51 GMT -6
From the article:
Tournament selection committee would meet prior to the conference tournaments and rank the top 68 at-large teams.
Teams that win conference tournaments receive automatic bids. If that team is not one of the 68 teams, the lowest-ranked team in the field of 68 is knocked out.
The key here is, a team cannot improve their standing in the conference tournaments unless they actually win the entire thing. Instead, we know exactly which teams are in the tournament at any given time during the conference tournaments. We know what teams need to do to get in and who gets knocked out if they do.
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Post by Big D on Mar 14, 2016 21:48:09 GMT -6
Better, but the committee still subjectively ranks the 68 teams. There will still be ridiculous excuses to leave mid-majors out of this pool. In the end, not much different than right now. My $.02.
As long as the power conferences are happy, nothing's gonna change. The whole thing has become a joke.
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Post by BBFran on Mar 14, 2016 21:52:01 GMT -6
I agree with Big D. And Bilas is the last guy I'd want to hang the hopes of mid majors on. If it was up to him he'd put Duke's champion intramural team in the dance as a second Duke entry before it would occur to him that a Valpo, St. Mary's or Wright might be worthy.
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Post by Hack on Mar 15, 2016 7:15:36 GMT -6
All this would do is give us two weeks instead of two days to complain about Team X being screwed by the committee and should be ranked ahead of Teams Y and Z.
It would add some drama into the conference tournaments, but doesn't solve the greater issue at hand.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 15, 2016 8:10:50 GMT -6
Maybe Braun can get us into the Big Ten.
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Post by Hack on Mar 15, 2016 8:20:52 GMT -6
One benefit this could have for mid-majors ... it would take at-large bid killing upsets in the conference tournament out of play.
Did Valpo's loss in the conference semis knock them from at-large consideration? No doubt Monmouth's loss did.
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Post by BBFran on Mar 15, 2016 9:00:26 GMT -6
One benefit this could have for mid-majors ... it would take at-large bid killing upsets in the conference tournament out of play. Did Valpo's loss in the conference semis knock them from at-large consideration? No doubt Monmouth's loss did. As a formal matter no but as a practical matter, clearly. There are no mid-major at large teams this year. None. The closest you can get to that designation is Butler. That's just wrong. |
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Post by Hack on Mar 15, 2016 9:22:30 GMT -6
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Post by BBFran on Mar 15, 2016 9:35:24 GMT -6
Oops, missed them. All you have to do to make the tourney as an at large mid major is be the 11th best team in the country per Pomeroy.
Of course, if you are a high major you can be 60, 56, 55, 49...
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 15, 2016 9:56:44 GMT -6
I knew that Wichita State would be noted as soon as I saw Fran's post.
One thing I will say: WSU doesn't schedule like a midmajor and it certainly doesn't pay like one (Gregg Marshall makes $3.5 million a year).
It's hard for me to cast it as a feel-good, midmajor "little guy."
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Post by gman2 on Mar 15, 2016 10:12:19 GMT -6
I knew that Wichita State would be noted as soon as I saw Fran's post. One thing I will say: WSU doesn't schedule like a midmajor and it certainly doesn't pay like one (Gregg Marshall makes $3.5 million a year). It's hard for me to cast it as a feel-good, midmajor "little guy." When a friend of the program has the last name of Koch, you can see why WSU was able to keep Marshall. link |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 15, 2016 10:40:55 GMT -6
I knew that Wichita State would be noted as soon as I saw Fran's post. One thing I will say: WSU doesn't schedule like a midmajor and it certainly doesn't pay like one (Gregg Marshall makes $3.5 million a year). It's hard for me to cast it as a feel-good, midmajor "little guy." When a friend of the program has the last name of Koch, you can see why WSU was able to keep Marshall. linkYou mean the basketball program takes direction from its major donors and the A.D. stays out of the way? How novel! |
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Post by Hack on Mar 15, 2016 10:59:01 GMT -6
When a friend of the program has the last name of Koch, you can see why WSU was able to keep Marshall. linkYou mean the basketball program takes direction from its major donors and the A.D. stays out of the way? How novel! You think donors dictating direction of an athletic program is a good thing? |
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Post by BBFran on Mar 15, 2016 11:03:19 GMT -6
It has certainly been a good thing for WSU. I don't believe we have a Koch Brother or a Boone Pickens standing behind the Panther program, unfortunately. (From a financial perspective, I mean.)
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