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There was a year that a winless last place team beat the #1 seed in the first round though

(12-19-2015 10:15 AM)58-56 Wrote:  

(12-18-2015 10:41 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(12-18-2015 10:01 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Have some conferences in the past had a round or two of the conference tournament at various sites with the higher seed hosting?

On top of mb's reply, I believe some have the entire tournaments this way of I'm not mistaken. The thing that makes no sense for cusa is having a game between number 11 fiu vs number 14 utsa in Birmingham. Those fans aren't going. None of us give a damn. I would literally prefer watching a high school game.

LaTech would have gone to the Final Four last year if only CUSA had held its tournament that way.

This is true. Uab hosting the tournament is the only reason they didn't make that run.

Would like to see a format where all teams go and some get double byes or better. CUSA needs all teams and fans to know they will be attending and make the tourney an option with all season ticket pkgs for all teams.

(12-19-2015 01:59 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(12-19-2015 01:40 PM)LairDweller Wrote:  

(12-19-2015 12:53 PM)58-56 Wrote:  

(12-19-2015 11:31 AM)Big Dee Wrote:  I still don't like it. Why even create the potential of having the 9 or 10 seed knock off the 1 or 2?

In the mid 80's, Old Dominion had a really good team, with the conference player of the year (Gattison) and another guy who might have been better (Davis?). They went 14-0 through the conference. Jacksonville came into the tournament at 0-14, and beat Old Dominion at like 10 in the morning on Day One.

Kenny Gattison was player of the year in 1986. That year ODU finished the regular season with 3 conference losses. They did lose to Jacksonville, in their 2nd tournament game. Jacksonville was 9-5 (with a regular season win over ODU) and went on to win the conference tournament

I like the way I remember it better.

1983
#1 seed ODU was 12-2 in regular season, which tied them with VCU. ODU got the #1 seed due to head to head. They played #8 Jacksonville who had gone 0-14 in the regular season. Jacksonville beat ODU 63-59 in the first round. This paved the way for the #3 seed UAB to win the tournament on their home court after beating #2 VCU in the semifinals by 2 points, and #4 South Florida by 17 points in the final.

1982-83 was a rebuilding year for the Blazers after their Elite 8 run and most did not expect them to make the NCAA tournament.

Charlie Bradley of USF and Calvin Duncan of VCU were Co-POY's. ODU had Mark West on the first team all conference team, and Charlie Smith on the second team all conference. UAB had Cliff Pruitt on second team all conference.

(12-19-2015 03:33 PM)notnow Wrote:  Would like to see a format where all teams go and some get double byes or better. CUSA needs all teams and fans to know they will be attending and make the tourney an option with all season ticket pkgs for all teams.

I would too if we had teams who cared. The three fans we don't get from utsa, and the f_u's don't do anything for the conference. If they don't want to see their teams play, why would any of us?

You know who has a good conference tournament where a lot of schools send fans. They call it Arch Madness. It's in Saint Louis every year and a huge hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_V...Tournament