Info on the new Big 12 Tournament format

[OUHoops]

From Guerin Emig's twitter today:

New Big 12 men's and women's bkb tourney formats give top 6 teams 1st-round byes.

#Big12 Bkb tourney formats mean bottom 4 seeds play opening round games Wednesday and advance to Thursday quarterfinals.

http://twitter.com/#!/guerinemig

 

[WTSooner]

I can live with that.

 

[BoulderSooner]

makes sense

 

[MsProudSooner]

The bottom 4 play each other to advance. Who do the winners of those 2 games play? The 1st & 2nd seeds?

 

[Sooner04]

Blows.

Bottom two teams stay home. 1/8, 4/5, 2/7, 3/6 on opening day, just how it used to be and could be again.

I know why they do it, because those boring opening round games will be "sell-outs", but it dilutes the overall product, in my opinion.

 

[lukin254]

Blows.

Bottom two teams stay home. 1/8, 4/5, 2/7, 3/6 on opening day, just how it used to be and could be again.

I know why they do it, because those boring opening round games will be "sell-outs", but it dilutes the overall product, in my opinion.

Agreed.

 

[Tundrasooner]

Blows.

Bottom two teams stay home. 1/8, 4/5, 2/7, 3/6 on opening day, just how it used to be and could be again.

I know why they do it, because those boring opening round games will be "sell-outs", but it dilutes the overall product, in my opinion.

Double agree.

 

[Written]

Sad first day play-in games.

 

[garyeb2]

For all the purist. In addition to being excluded from the tournament, how about locking them up in stocks in the public square for three days. And then pop them for five football scholarships. But, the reality is that it is just as likely as not that the bottom two spots woud be decided by some sort of tie breaker formula. While tie breakers are fine for seeding purposes, it would be silly to exclude a team for the conference tournament based on some tie breaker when they could just go play a game.

 

[SoonerEyeDoc]

I love it; it will be like the old Big 8 tourney after day 1

 

[Darwin]

Every team should have a chance to extend their season with a win.