This just in- Regular season will not count!

[DanGenck]

128 teams.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2500025

[cjwilhelmi]

Can you imagine trying to fill out a bracket for your office pool for that?

[DanGenck]

Or being on the selection committee and having to pick between 12-20 Minnesota and 13-19 Alabama for the 23 seed in Texarkana Region?

[Rob Graff]

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Nothing like taking an ax to the golden goose's neck.

Rob

[Hackalicious]

Can you imagine trying to fill out a bracket for your office pool for that?

Maybe I've got world cup on the brain, but what if they had a round-robin group to make an elimination round of 32?

64 (or 128) teams are put in groups of 4 based on seeding. Each team is guaranteed three games. The top two in each group go onto the next round.

That would double the total number of games. I think it might take some of the excitement out of first-round upsets, though.

If not for the obvious logistical costs, I think this would be great for the USLIA. Eight sites could host a 3-day, round-robin weekends. Each of the four teams would be from a different league. The top two from each group would go on to the 16-team tourney.

You get your AQs built in and don't have any WCLL vs. WCLL-type brackets. Too bad this would be another expensive trip most teams could not afford.

[ZagGrad]

Too bad the same committee can't get together for NCAA D1 football.

[Brent Burns]

I would not go for the 128 team bracket. No way. Too much competition being saturated on TV. Other than DI football, basketball, I am getting tired of seeing shows such as So You Think You Can Dance and America Has Talent. The trend is- so many types of competitions on TV these days. A lot of ramifications affecting all of us.

Hope that idea is just being thrown out and being bandied about.
The good news at this point that the changes aren't immient. I don't mind if it is done gradually with a few teams, still a big BUT....

[DanGenck]

Can you imagine trying to fill out a bracket for your office pool for that?

Maybe I've got world cup on the brain, but what if they had a round-robin group to make an elimination round of 32?

64 (or 128) teams are put in groups of 4 based on seeding. Each team is guaranteed three games. The top two in each group go onto the next round.

That would double the total number of games. I think it might take some of the excitement out of first-round upsets, though.

If not for the obvious logistical costs, I think this would be great for the USLIA. Eight sites could host a 3-day, round-robin weekends. Each of the four teams would be from a different league. The top two from each group would go on to the 16-team tourney.

You get your AQs built in and don't have any WCLL vs. WCLL-type brackets. Too bad this would be another expensive trip most teams could not afford.

I like this idea, but it would be the final blow to any hopes of having "student" athletes on any NCAA basketball teams. Being away so much would make studying nearly impossible.

[horn17]

Or, you could actually study on the road....

[DanGenck]

Or, you could actually study on the road....

Studying encompasses being present at classes, which would also be nearly impossible (because it's already 99% impossible in the current system for NCAA basketball).

[Pinball]

Or, you could actually study on the road....

Studying encompasses being present at classes, which would also be nearly impossible (because it's already 99% impossible in the current system for NCAA basketball).

Dan you should know this from all of the great SJU roadtrips, all we do is study. The Iowa State Weekends and NIU were like a MENSA convention on the bus

[DanGenck]

You joke, but a lot of people were studying. I would not have finished in 4 years if I did not work my butt off on some of those weekends...