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Post by nickpanther on Mar 24, 2017 8:23:09 GMT -6
I agree the NIt neds to expand. Just merge the CIT and CBI into it, and have two 64 or 68 team tourneys. Give bids to regular season conference winners, and conference finalists who dont make it. So yeah you might get a Cal Poly or this years UWM every now and then, but those teams deserve a postseason berth after a conference tourney run to the finals
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Mar 24, 2017 13:00:23 GMT -6
NIT for a couple of years was about 40 teams. Went back to the even 32 teams.
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Post by nickpanther on Feb 15, 2018 21:49:03 GMT -6
With the Vegas 16 now gone. that leaves the CBI and the CIT. I like the CBI's best of 3 final format, perhaps that is something the NIT could copy.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 16, 2018 8:29:12 GMT -6
With the Vegas 16 now gone. that leaves the CBI and the CIT. I like the CBI's best of 3 final format, perhaps that is something the NIT could copy. That won't happen with games at MSG.
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Post by nickpanther on Feb 16, 2018 9:00:55 GMT -6
yeah, the top flight tourneys wont do best of 3 finals. Thats a pity.
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Post by Title on Feb 21, 2018 8:15:37 GMT -6
If anything there are too many teams with 68. I took part in a legitimate conversation about the merits of Penn State vs Nebraska just a couple days ago. Neither of those teams is close to good enough to play in any sort of playoff for the sport's national championship, yet one will almost certainly make it.
64 was perfect. This is SUPPOSED to be hard to get into, it'd be close to meaningless if it were 100. From a pragmatic perspective, exactly 0 of the power conferences would support the measure because it would require more games (and potential potholes) on the way to the Final Four, so there's no chance it'd get off the floor.
We don't need participation trophies. If you just aren't good enough for the NCAA, or the NIT, you really have no argument for playing more games. You are what you are.
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Post by Pantherholic on Feb 21, 2018 9:17:21 GMT -6
If anything there are too many teams with 68... 64 was perfect. This is SUPPOSED to be hard to get into, it'd be close to meaningless if it were 100... We don't need participation trophies. If you just aren't good enough for the NCAA, or the NIT, you really have no argument for playing more games. You are what you are. I absolutely love this.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 21, 2018 10:11:14 GMT -6
Now they've got St. Mary's (RPI 30), Loyola (RPI 41), New Mexico State (RPI 46) and Boise State (RPI 50) OUT?!?!
The problem isn't the concept, it's the selection process!!!
Let's take it up to 128!!! Please?!?!
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Post by Pantherholic on Feb 21, 2018 11:58:26 GMT -6
Let's take it up to 128!!! Please?!?! Every 6-10th place power conference team loves this idea.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 21, 2018 12:20:58 GMT -6
Let's take it up to 128!!! Please?!?! Every 6-10th place power conference team loves this idea. No QUESTION ... and there's no perfect answer, but at the moment seemingly every single viable at-large candidate from a non-Power 7 conference other than perhaps Nevada and Rhode Island is holding on by a thread. NOT fair!
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 9, 2018 17:49:25 GMT -6
Every 6-10th place power conference team loves this idea. No QUESTION ... and there's no perfect answer, but at the moment seemingly every single viable at-large candidate from a non-Power 7 conference other than perhaps Nevada and Rhode Island is holding on by a thread. NOT fair! This is truer than ever today after early-round conference tournament bowouts by RPI heavyweights St. Mary's and Middle Tennessee, who if they're "lucky" will meet each other in Dayton. In the meantime, programs like Baylor, Oklahoma and Texas sit squarely on the bubble with losing conference records. This system is so broken!!
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Post by nickpanther on Mar 16, 2018 0:09:20 GMT -6
I agree that the RPI system needs to go, and that you need to set it up so that strong mid-majors get the nod over weak teams like Oklahoma. seriously, if they had that record and didnt have Trae young ( who is, admittedly, a stud) theres no way they;d be in the NCAA, but rather the NIT.
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Post by nickpanther on May 17, 2018 20:31:50 GMT -6
ACC is proposing adding 4 more teams to 72 and expanding the playin round to 8 games. Its a minor tweak, but as long as its limited to mid-major teams instead of 9th and 10th place teams in the big conferences, I can get behind it
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Post by parkerj on May 17, 2018 23:43:35 GMT -6
My thought was that they should keep the bracket (basically) how it is until a 16 beats a 1 so that's still special
So I'm totally in on the NCAA 100
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on May 18, 2018 7:02:44 GMT -6
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