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I have posted this in a few other threads. This is my idea for NCAA selection criteria. It takes all the committee subjectiveness out of it (they can still discriminate with the seeding) to pick who should be in the tournament. I have expanded this idea to determine who would be in the tournament using this criteria compared to who actually got in. Some surprising results that I did not count on when I started. There are actually only 10 teams difference, but in my system, there would be 7 non-BCS schools instead of 4.

The Memphis Blazer NCAA Selection criteria

1. The regular season champions of each conference would get the automatic bids. Just because a team gets hot for a few games in a row does not mean they should be awarded a spot. This would place more importance on the regular season.
2. In certain conferences, perhaps the top 10 conferences in the RPI would have their conference tournament champions awarded automatic spots as well, if different from the regular season champions.
3. The final spots would then go to the highest rated RPI teams remaining, no matter who they are.

Under the first criteria, here are the regular season champions:
1. North Carolina - ACC,
2. Michigan State - Big 10,
3. Kansas - Big 12,
4. Louisville - Big East,
5. Washington - Pac 10,
6. LSU - SEC,
7. BYU - Mtn. West,
8. Xavier - Atlantic 10,
9. Creighton - Missouri Valley,
10. Memphis - CUSA,
11. Utah State - WAC,
12. Butler - Horizon,
13. Siena - MAAC,
14. VCU - Colonial,
15. Gonzaga - West Coast,
16. Vermont - American East,
17. Western Kentucky - Sun Belt,
18. Cal State-Northridge - Big West,
19. Stephen Austin - Southland
20. Davidson - Southern
21. Buffalo - Mid American
22. Weber State - Big Sky
23. Tn. Martin - Ohio Valley
24. American - Patriot
25. Radford - Big South
26. North Dakota State - Summitt
27. Robert Morris - Northeast
28. Jacksonville - Atlantic Sun
29. Cornell - Ivy
30. Morgan State - MEAC
31. Alabama State - SWAC

Teams that won their tournament and were the actual automatic qualifier are in bold. Interestingly, among the top 10 conferences, Memphis and Louisville are the only two teams who won the regular season and tournament.

Criteria #2 - Teams in Top 10 conferences who won conference tournaments
1. Duke
2. Mississippi State
3. Missouri
4. Purdue
5. USC
6. Temple
7. Utah
8. Northern Iowa

This year in my system there were 39 automatic qualifiers due to so many regular season champs losing their tournaments.

That leaves 24 At large bids to go to the highest RPI teams. RPI in parenthesis

1. Pittsburgh(2)
2. Oklahoma(5)
3. UConn (8)
4. Syracuse (12)
5. Villanova (13)
6. Florida State (15)
7. Wake Forest (16)
8. Oklahoma State (19)
9. West Virginia (21)
10. Illinois [22)
11. Tennessee (25)
12. Dayton (27)
13. Clemson (28)
14. Arizona State (31)
15. Ohio State (32)
16. UCLA (33)
17. San Diego State (34)
18. Marquette (35)
19. Texas A&M (36)
20. California (39)
21. Texas (41)
22. Minnesota (42)
23. Michigan (43)
24. Wisconsin (45)
25. UAB (46)
26. Illinois State (47)

Yes, UAB with a RPI of 46 would be the next to the last team in.

Teams in the actual tournament not in mine:
Morehead State (tournament winner)
Cleveland State (tournament winner)
Chattanooga (tournament winner)
East Tn State (tournament Winner)
Portland State (tournament winner)
Binghampton (tournament winner)
Akron (tournament winner)
Boston College (at large - RPI - 59)
Maryland (at large - RPI 54)
Arizona (at large - RPI - 63)

Teams not in the actual tournament that are in mine:
San Diego State (RPI -34)
UAB (RPI - 46)
Illinois State (RPI - 47)
Creighton (regular season winner)
Vermont (regular season winner)
Davidson (regular season winner)
Buffalo (regular season winner)
Weber STate (regular season winner)
TN Martin (regular season winner)
Jacksonville (regular season winner)

Dear Mr. Slive.

My pal Memphis Blazer has an idea for you.

Hugs and kisses,

Smaug

Interesting.

Not a bad way to do it.

This sounds fair and takes out human bias. Awards performance rather than the "eye test" that they kept talking about on ESPN.

If they can use formulas and computers to select the BCS in football, why can't they do it in basketball.

(03-15-2009 09:42 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]If they can use formulas and computers to select the BCS in football, why can't they do it in basketball.

when it suits their (bc$) purpose, then it'll happen.