This is stupid....the wussification of America continues.
The big difference is that the NCAA controls most of the money for televising of the NCAA basketball tournament. Football revenue is controlled by the conferences and schools. That is my understanding.
To me, they are just combining the NIT, and those teams should be in anyways.
More good teams = better tournament. Seems pretty simple to me.
The tournament has fallen off in national interest anyway;
I don't agree with that. Still a huge event amongst people I know, not all of which are die-hard bball fans either.
I'll have to see how the brackets will be set up.
But 99.9% chance I'm going to hate it.
"good teams" is in the eye of the beholder. To me you aren't very "good" if you're going 7-9 in the conference, and those are the types of teams that are going to get into the tournament if they add 32 teams. Even if you are rather generous and say that the top 5 seeds in each bracket have an actual chance of winning the entire thing, that is only 20 teams. So you currently have 42 teams with little to no chance of winning. Do we really need to add 32 more? Do we need 74 teams in the tournament that have zero chance of winning? (and yes, I realize the tournament is about more than winning the national title)
Yea, who wants teams like this to be included in the NCAA Tournament along with Morehead State, Siena, North Dakota State, Chattanooga, Akron, San Francisco, Morgan State, Cal-State Northridge, etc:
23-9 San Diego State
21-11 Kansas State
26-7 Davidson
22-11 Auburn
20-14 Baylor
22-11 Penn State
23-10 Florida
21-10 UNLV
26-7 Creighton
Most of the NIT is more deserving to be in the "big show" than those clown schools who win 1% or 0% of the time. Sure, those small schools will still get their chance but now you are including legit teams. All of the above teams CAN and WILL beat higher seeds, which will prove they belong in the first place. More good teams, more great games, a bigger and better tournament.
:ez-laugh:clown schools