March Madness poll

[printdust]

I say it's like a zit. Pop it.

 

[joe king]

Keep it, but instead of making teams who earned their way in through automatic bids play, make the last two at-large teams have to play their way in. I'd much rather watch, say, Virginia Tech and Illinois play than Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Morgan State.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Keep it, but instead of making teams who earned their way in through automatic bids play, make the last two at-large teams have to play their way in. I'd much rather watch, say, Virginia Tech and Illinois play than Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Morgan State.

Quite right.

The play-in game is really the gateway drug to overexpansion.

But it would be fun to have one play-in for each pod ... if, as joe suggests, "name" teams were in the mix.

 

[spnited]

Illinois does not even deserve to be in a play-in game

 

[Football_Bat]

When the illustrious Great West gets its automatic bid in three years, we'll likely have two play-ins unless the NCAA goes forward with the 96-team bracket.

 

[joe king]

Illinois does not even deserve to be in a play-in game

Point taken. It was just an off-the-top-of-the-head example.

 

[joe king]

When the illustrious Great West gets its automatic bid in three years, we'll likely have two play-ins unless the NCAA goes forward with the 96-team bracket.

I always get a laugh out of the grandiose names chosen by some of these backwater leagues. What exactly is big about the Big South?

 

[spnited]

And why does the Great West have a school from New Jersey?

 

[The Big Ragu]

And why does the Great West have a school from New Jersey?

To class up the conference a little.

 

[Gutter]

And why does the Great West have a school from New Jersey?

Well, it is west of the Hudson.

 

[spnited]

And why does the Great West have a school from New Jersey?

To class up the conference a little.

Yeah, those road trips to downtown Newark sure give the conference some class.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

The play-in game is idiotic.

 

[I Should Coco]

And why does the Great West have a school from New Jersey?

Kind of like the Western Athletic Conference having a school from Louisiana.

Ah, who needs to teach geography anymore? Just use MapQuest ...

 

[mustangj17]

Illinois does not even deserve to be in a play-in

I think we should have four play in games every year. With the at-large teams.

This year you could have.

Florida vs. Minnesota
Illinois vs. Mississippi State
Utah vs. Virginia Tech
and so on.


I don't understand why there is one play-in game. I feel like brackets should be the same on each side.

 

[Gutter]

And why does the Great West have a school from New Jersey?

Kind of like the Western Athletic Conference having a school from Louisiana.

Ah, who needs to teach geography anymore? Just use MapQuest ...

Or the Sun Belt with a team from Colorado.

 

[I Should Coco]

I thought this poll would be, "Who has the most annoying college basketball coverage, ESPN or CBS?"

Maybe we need a play-in game to determine THAT.

 

[spnited]

Illinois does not even deserve to be in a play-in

I think we should have four play in games every year. With the at-large teams.

This year you could have.

Florida vs. Minnesota
Illinois vs. Mississippi State
Utah vs. Virginia Tech
and so on.


I don't understand why there is one play-in game. I feel like brackets should be the same on each side.

Eight teams who don't deserve to be in the tournament

 

[trifectarich]

What will they call the Big 10 with 12 or 14 teams?

 

[jackfinarelli]

I would expand the field to 68 teams - - but not to 96 teams - - and have a play-in game in each of the four brackets just to let a few more "wannabees" into the tournament.

It isn't about who is going to win it all; it is about giving three more teams a couple of days of eupohoria until the clock strikes twelve...

 

[spnited]

Why not just let all the wanabees in Jack. Oh, wait, they already are...in the conference tournaments.