When you say "conference winners" are you referring to a team that wins their conference during the regular season, or a team that wins their conference tournament?
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When you say "conference winners" are you referring to a team that wins their conference during the regular season, or a team that wins their conference tournament?
Conf tournament. That's what gives the auto_bid.
Skip Bayless declared Virginia will beat Michigan State this time. So mark it down that Virginia gets bounced again.
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:mock: Skip Bayless
He's an ESPN sideshow. Him and Stephen A Smith are the biggest joke on the network.
He's an ESPN sideshow. Him and Stephen A Smith are the biggest joke on the network.
That is how everyone gets in. After the conference tournaments the field is then selected at-large based on who you beat. I don't understand your complaint either.
Yes, winning a conference tournament gives an automatic bid. I didn't know if that is what you were referring to, or if you were referring to a team like Wichita St., who won their conference during the regular season, but now has to play in one of the play-in-games because they did not win their conference championship against Northern Iowa. (who never would have made it had they not won their conference tournament).
Another head scratcher is why did Kentucky get a #4 seed, but Texas A&M got a #3 seed, after Kentucky beat Texas A&M in the SEC Title Game.
They beat Kentucky earlier in the season so they were even head-to-head.
My complaint is that giving a conference winner a play-in game isn't really giving them an automatic bid. I don't care what the heads of the NCAA say, the "first four" isn't really being in the tournament.
There shouldn't be any play in games. 64 is where it needs to stand. But the NCAA was not satisfied with the billion they make on the kids while not paying them, so they devised a way for one more game. They are still in. It isn't really a play in game. Kind of like the football "playoff" that isn't a playoff. It is the BCS +1 system.
I didn't mind when it was one play-in game because it was sort of fun to give a team a chance to win their way in. I don't like this new setup.
today march madness will end for the fans of 16 teams
-and
-tomorrow it will end for the fans of 16 more teams
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-tomorrow it will end for the fans of 16 more teams
say it isn't so
-college athletes are being exploited
-they are being used
-why isn't trump making this an issue?
-too many victims
-and
-not enough trumps
-college athletes are being exploited
-they are being used
-why isn't trump making this an issue?
-too many victims
-and
-not enough trumps
But they beat them when it mattered. That is the mantra of "tournaments".
It isn't about us or the teams. They use it thinking you will spend money and they design it thinking they can maximize the transfer of income from you to them. As though it is a for profit business. It annoys me also.
Tis true.
Games have started. :banana:
I predicted the UNC Wilmington upset over Duke. Close game so far. :noid:
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