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<blockquote data-quote="LVH" data-source="post: 3133243" data-attributes="member: 71239"><p>The 64 team bracket format is why it is so popular with casuals and non sports fans. A 16 team bracket takes away the casual appeal.</p><p></p><p>The 30 for 30 on Georgetown-Princeton in 1989 documents that game as the game that made March Madness into what it is today. They were going to do exactly as you proposed, dump the automatic bids and only have a 16 team format, but the Georgetown-Princeton game did such good ratings and generated such buzz that it saved the auto bid format and CBS inked the massive $$$$ contract with the NCAA a few months later</p><p></p><p>The first 2 days of March Madness on Thursday/Friday are the busiest days every year at the Las Vegas sportsbooks... more busy than the Super Bowl or any other event. And those 2 days are why March Madness is worth billions and is the NCAA's most prized asset</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LVH, post: 3133243, member: 71239"] The 64 team bracket format is why it is so popular with casuals and non sports fans. A 16 team bracket takes away the casual appeal. The 30 for 30 on Georgetown-Princeton in 1989 documents that game as the game that made March Madness into what it is today. They were going to do exactly as you proposed, dump the automatic bids and only have a 16 team format, but the Georgetown-Princeton game did such good ratings and generated such buzz that it saved the auto bid format and CBS inked the massive $$$$ contract with the NCAA a few months later The first 2 days of March Madness on Thursday/Friday are the busiest days every year at the Las Vegas sportsbooks... more busy than the Super Bowl or any other event. And those 2 days are why March Madness is worth billions and is the NCAA's most prized asset [/QUOTE]
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