25-26 NCAA Tournament Bracketology

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hoopsjunkie75

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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.
 
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hoopsjunkie75 said:
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.
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Basically. They just expanded the World Cup, which was also a perfectly structured tournament, for the exact same reason.
 
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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?
 
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Verdad said:
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?
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It would have been close in 24-25. They would have found a way to screw us.
 
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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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"Instead of four games with eight teams in Dayton for the men’s tournament, there will be 12 games with 24 teams at two sites. That will initiate the start of March Madness. Dayton will stay on as one of the sites, but the second hasn’t been determined yet for the men’s tournament. The sites for the women’s opening round also remain unclear. One source told CBS Sports that it will for sure be in either the Central, Mountain or Pacific time zones and that a decision won’t happen until either this summer or in the early fall.
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The expanded opening round will be split between at-large teams and teams that have won automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. All No. 16 seeds and half the No. 15 seeds will slot into those play-in games on Tuesday and Wednesday of the opening round. The other half of the games will be a mix, depending on team quality, comprised of No. 11 seeds, all No. 12 seeds and potentially a game that will feed into the No. 13 line for the first round that Thursday or Friday.
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This would also mean a new TV lineup. While exact tip times and format for the opening round on Tuesday and Wednesday have not yet been determined, the broad template will be to have the first games tip in the late afternoon on the East Coast, sources said, and to stagger the tip times in a tripleheader format on multiple networks. The first window would be somewhere in the 4 p.m. ET slot, then the second closer to 7 p.m. ET, the third pair of tip times slated between 9 and 10 p.m. ET."
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I wonder if EBA would be considered as the second site for the men's tournament?
 
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Old Ram said:
It would have been close in 24-25. They would have found a way to screw us.
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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?
 
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