No BCS teams this year...they all declined. What a stupid idea from the start.

http://cnmnewsnetwork.com/13073/cbi-tour...-schedule/

Never even heard of a CBI tourny.

What's really a joke is the Ivy League refuses to allow its football champion to play in the FCS playoffs (and they puff their chests out about it - academics first!) but has a team in the CBI tournament and a team in the CIT tournament.

I guess Oregon St technically qualifies as BCS.

The Bearcats are 0-1 in the CBI

(03-16-2010 09:27 PM)animus Wrote:  Never even heard of a CBI tourny.

There are 4 post-season tourneys
NCAA
NIT
CBI
CIT

But none matter except the NCAA.

The one thing I'll give the Ivies this one thing, I hate how conference tournaments determine who goes to the NCAA tournament. If a conference is going to get one bid, it makes no sense (other than a small financial reason because ESPN) to give it to a team who wins the conference tournament over the regular season crown.

(03-17-2010 05:34 AM)ohio1317 Wrote:  The one thing I'll give the Ivies this one thing, I hate how conference tournaments determine who goes to the NCAA tournament. If a conference is going to get one bid, it makes no sense (other than a small financial reason because ESPN) to give it to a team who wins the conference tournament over the regular season crown.

There is no financial reasons. Most conferences don't get paid by ESPN (other than free ads on the game), ESPN just pays production costs for title games. But small conferences love the exposure, most of these schools aren't even on regional tv the rest of the year. Also, this gives a small incentive for teams to continue playing throughout the season so they get a better seed. I do agree that I hate it when a top seed loses in a small conference championship game.