No but it would diminish the tourney to add teams, even though it’s inevitable. 64 was perfect. The playin games are silly but I can live with them since it pretty quickly filters into a 64-team bracket. Going beyond that is ridiculous. Like Jay Bilas always says, the purpose of the tournament is to crown a national champion. People spend way too much time thinking about/debating the final handful of teams. If it expands to 300 teams, the first few out would still complain.NCAA talks expanding hoops tourney to 72 or 76
NCAA president Charlie Baker says talks are ongoing to expand the basketball tournament to 72 or 76 teams.www.espn.com
If the Tourney was 72 the last 3 years .. OU would have been in the Dance 2 of the last 3 years .. ..
would that change how you feel about Moser??
No. Because I've never jumped off the Moser boat. I still think he's the right guy for the job and will have us in the right place VERY soon (we might already be there). He's been handcuffed with lack of funds and lack of facilities. All of that is (hopefully) changing and results are starting to show already.NCAA talks expanding hoops tourney to 72 or 76
NCAA president Charlie Baker says talks are ongoing to expand the basketball tournament to 72 or 76 teams.
If the Tourney was 72 the last 3 years .. OU would have been in the Dance 2 of the last 3 years .. ..
would that change how you feel about Moser??
If I had to choose, I would pick a 32 team tourney over anything more than the 64 team.NCAA talks expanding hoops tourney to 72 or 76
NCAA president Charlie Baker says talks are ongoing to expand the basketball tournament to 72 or 76 teams.
If the Tourney was 72 the last 3 years .. OU would have been in the Dance 2 of the last 3 years .. ..
would that change how you feel about Moser??
going to 72 would just give us 8 opening round games instead of the 4 .. and it would still filter in at the same time ..
No. I like Moser personally but being the last team in vs the first team out makes no difference to me. I am impressed with what he put together this year when it looked like we would have nothing. But losing conference games like we lost to TT and Houston at home; losing to Ut by 15 at home - that has to stop or we are just pretending it can get better.NCAA talks expanding hoops tourney to 72 or 76
NCAA president Charlie Baker says talks are ongoing to expand the basketball tournament to 72 or 76 teams.
If the Tourney was 72 the last 3 years .. OU would have been in the Dance 2 of the last 3 years .. ..
would that change how you feel about Moser??
Bingo. Also, i think it lessens the chance of crowning who should "really" win it (the best team) by adding more and more trash
It just waters things down. Think of how bad we were the final two months of last season. How does adding OU and three other similarly undeserving teams enhance the tournament? And when would the added games be played if you want to keep the true start of the tournament on Thursday?
they would just play 4 games on Tuesday and 4 on Wednesday .. instead of the 2 each the currently play .... really really simple ..
We had the field of 64 for 16 years only. 85-00
It was 48 for a time before going to 64. I don't remember how long, though. I don't remember any complaints going from 48-64 since the only change was nobody got a bye in the first round. I was young then, so I might not have been paying attention.
Oh, I know. And I think every subsequent expansion is silly. Do you recall which conference's dissolution provided us with the vaunted field of 65?
