Watched the game and it was quite the nail-biter. UMW came back from being down significantly at halftime, gained a huge lead, and then lost it all. That buzzer beater was fantastic.
25-26 NCAA Tournament Bracketology
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Pablo
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Very happy for them!
Still, University of MW, sounds funny. Should be MW University.
https://x.com/petethamel/status/2049244083667783710?s=46&t=rQMdpd3slvPpJHaSGqvPug
NCAA in the final steps of of expanding the tournament to 76 teams
NCAA in the final steps of of expanding the tournament to 76 teams
Patriot Blue
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24 play in games? Don't like it
Pretty surprised they went through with this considering the amount of people against it
I'm not surprised at all considering what we know about this world. I don't like it, so now you have to play in a tournament (conference), to get into a tournament (NCAA PIG round), for a chance to play in the tournament.
$crew what people want, it's all about the $ $ $ $ $. If someone can make another dollar out of it, they will.
$crew what people want, it's all about the $ $ $ $ $. If someone can make another dollar out of it, they will.
Basically. They just expanded the World Cup, which was also a perfectly structured tournament, for the exact same reason.
Patriot Blue
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What's the World Cup?
There is a right way to do expansion to allow more bubble teams who are just as good as the other 10/11 seeds to have a chance to play in. But the right way would be to put all automatic qualifiers into the 64 team bracket and only have bubble teams play in. It's complete BS that 2 automatic qualifiers only get to experience Dayton, and not the full NCAAT weekend experience. Then you can make the play in as large as you want (that will still fit within the 64 team bracket).
But of course, they are admittedly doing this to get more .500 P4 teams in, and will probably put more automatic qualifiers into the play in.
Silver lining, wouldn't we have likely made the play-in with this expansion in the 24-25 season?
But of course, they are admittedly doing this to get more .500 P4 teams in, and will probably put more automatic qualifiers into the play in.
Silver lining, wouldn't we have likely made the play-in with this expansion in the 24-25 season?
It would have been close in 24-25. They would have found a way to screw us.
Pablo
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Is NCAA Tournament Expansion More Or Less Pressure On Marquette Basketball?
The NCAA is on the verge of expanding both men’s and women’s tournaments to 76 teams. Is that helpful for the Golden Eagles?
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I wonder if EBA would be considered as the second site for the men's tournament?
It would be better to be more west.
Also we have an NIT game to host.
We were a 1 seed, but that was also after several mediocre P4s declined the invite.
Also, we would have been in the field in 2014 under the RPI system.
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Make the second city Portland at the moda center. We have donuts, pizza, wine, and beer..
Do you hang a banner if you make the 24 team PIG and lose? Does it count?
Do you hang a banner if you make the 24 team PIG and lose? Does it count?
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Portlandian
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Poor man's champions League or copa libertadores
ESPN Bracketology guys speculate on the impact of adding another 8 teams to the NCAAs:
Surprisingly, Calipari takes the side of the mid-majors getting significantly more bids in the expanding field for the NCAA tournament.
"You have to help the mid-majors."
It's the lesser-known brands and lower-budgeted teams, after all, that have long captured the public's attention and made this a tradition unlike any other. Valparaiso. George Mason. Oakland and Saint Peter's (sorry, Cal).
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No one would remember that ball, after all, if Cinderella hadn't shown up.
"You have to ask, why is this tournament so huge?" Calipari said. "Because of David and Goliath. And I've been both. I've won as David and lost as Goliath.
"That's what I keep coming back to, if you are going to do this, if you are going to add all these games, it can't be just to add more Power 5 conference teams," he said of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC.
That sounds good, but this initiative came from the big guys. It stands to reason it will serve the big guys.
This needs to be structural. First off, the metrics used by the selection committee need to be less reliant on which schools you played, which greatly favors the Power 5.
"The Power 5 teams are going to have an advantage over non-Power 5 teams because they're playing each other," Calipari said. "It's obvious."
Second, once the field is set, the NCAA needs to lay out the matchups using a true S-curve, rather than the current system that prohibits two teams from the same league playing each other in the first round and often even deeper into the tourney. Let the big guys knock each other out.
"You get 14 teams from a single league, you're going to play early," Calipari said. "Too bad."
"You have to help the mid-majors."
It's the lesser-known brands and lower-budgeted teams, after all, that have long captured the public's attention and made this a tradition unlike any other. Valparaiso. George Mason. Oakland and Saint Peter's (sorry, Cal).
Mitchell Layton/Getty Images
No one would remember that ball, after all, if Cinderella hadn't shown up.
"You have to ask, why is this tournament so huge?" Calipari said. "Because of David and Goliath. And I've been both. I've won as David and lost as Goliath.
"That's what I keep coming back to, if you are going to do this, if you are going to add all these games, it can't be just to add more Power 5 conference teams," he said of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC.
That sounds good, but this initiative came from the big guys. It stands to reason it will serve the big guys.
This needs to be structural. First off, the metrics used by the selection committee need to be less reliant on which schools you played, which greatly favors the Power 5.
"The Power 5 teams are going to have an advantage over non-Power 5 teams because they're playing each other," Calipari said. "It's obvious."
Second, once the field is set, the NCAA needs to lay out the matchups using a true S-curve, rather than the current system that prohibits two teams from the same league playing each other in the first round and often even deeper into the tourney. Let the big guys knock each other out.
"You get 14 teams from a single league, you're going to play early," Calipari said. "Too bad."
Yes, the NCAA has done too much to allow consolidation of the Power Conferences. Time to start chipping away at the mega-conference advantage. Maybe the PAC-12 stays in-tact if a team had to be at least .500 in league play to make the tournament, for instance? Or yeah, blowing up the rule of same conference teams playing each other in early rounds?
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