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This Ain't Chopped Liver
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Yesterday—Guess what—all eight Top Ten “upsets” were on the winning “underdog’s” home court with enthusiastic crowds, just in case some still question whether environment matters. Go to the Scholl, KANSAS next.
The top six ranked teams and seven of the Top Ten lost, eight when you throw in Villanova’s Tuesday’s loss, all on the road.
#1 Gonzaga lost AT #23 St. Mary’s Gaels
#2 Arizona lost AT Colorado
#3 Auburn lost AT #17 Tennessee
#4 Purdue lost AT Michigan State
#5 Kansas lost AT #10 Baylor
#6 Kentucky lost AT #18 Arkansas
#9 Tech lost AT TCU (special thanks to Mikey Miles 26 points (10-15); 5 steals; 4 boards; 4 assists; 2 TO)
#8 Villanova did not play yesterday but lost their last game, Tuesday, AT #21 Connecticut.
#7 Duke and #10 Baylor did win
The top six ranked teams and seven of the Top Ten lost, eight when you throw in Villanova’s Tuesday’s loss, all on the road.
#1 Gonzaga lost AT #23 St. Mary’s Gaels
#2 Arizona lost AT Colorado
#3 Auburn lost AT #17 Tennessee
#4 Purdue lost AT Michigan State
#5 Kansas lost AT #10 Baylor
#6 Kentucky lost AT #18 Arkansas
#9 Tech lost AT TCU (special thanks to Mikey Miles 26 points (10-15); 5 steals; 4 boards; 4 assists; 2 TO)
#8 Villanova did not play yesterday but lost their last game, Tuesday, AT #21 Connecticut.
#7 Duke and #10 Baylor did win
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Bizarro Frog
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I love our team and they never give up. If we get into the tournament we are going to out hustle and smother some team to death. I may be way off but I think the all BIG 12 teams are going to make runs because their defenses are preposterous.
Realtorfrog
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Every eligible team from this conference should be a lock!!
SuperTFrog
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“A win in the big 12 tourney” means a quad 1 win against UT, Baylor, KU or Tech. I don’t think we need to do anything else if we win a game in the tournament.
The standard that you have to meet in order to make the NCAA tournament is a joke. Prove that you can beat a decent team about 1 out of every 3 times and you are in. That's about it. There are about 100 teams too many in D1 basketball and the NCAA tournament is twice the size it needs to be. I'd argue 4x too big. 16 teams is plenty, make the regular season very meaningful and people might tune in before March. And you'd still have a great tournament.
Big Frog II
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No
PurpleBlood87
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I actually was at the Frogs last NCAA Tournament victory.
So there is that.
So there is that.
I don't understand why this would be an unpopular opinion. Teams get in that don't even win half their league games, why should they be considered worthy of playing for a national championship in a single elimination tournament, at neutral sites no less?
It's an endemic in all sports. They are talking about going to 14 teams in the MLB playoffs. So they are gonna play 162 games to eliminate only 53% of the teams? What a joke.
The only regular season that really matters(ed) anymore is college football and they are about to ruin that too.
FrogUltimate
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I disagree with you specifically on the NCAA tournament for basketball, just because it's the NCAA tournament and it's a thing. I don't think your logic is wrong, but I'd hate to lose the tournament and all the craziness that you get in each round.
I completely agree in regards to baseball, NBA basketball, NFL, etc. Way too many teams are making the playoffs.
I guess I disagree with you on college football though. They need to expand to 6 or 8 and be done. Anything more is too much, anything less is weak.
TCUdirtbag
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I think a 16-team NCAA tournament would be great. Yeah, you'd lose the "craziness" of the first weekend in the current format, but more often than not all that craziness does is make for some lopsided games further into the tournament. That 16-team event would become A Thing pretty quickly.....almost overnight.
One thing it would do is make for some real meaningful games throughout the regular season, and especially the last couple weeks. It's a hell of a lot more meaningful when the a spot for 16 is on the line as opposed to whether an 18-10 team can win their last game and get in as a 12 seed.....because the #4 seed would actually have a reasonable chance of winning the whole thing (in basketball, not football). It'd be cool if we could actually get back to regular season games actually meaning something in sports.
edit: And another thing, not that it really matters all that much, but the NIT would probably become a pretty good tournament again, like it used to be. Believe it or not, back in the day the NIT was almost as big a tournament as the NCAA.
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StealthFrog
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Why?
StealthFrog
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why is the NCAA tournament so popular?
…because it is an excuse to miss work and gamble.
You could say the CFP is really popular too, yet so many want to change the format. Why?
I think a 16-team tournament would be just as popular, and make the regular season a hell of a lot more interesting, and be good for the sport. A huge number of people don't even watch college basketball until March.
LVH
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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
