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RE: **The official NCAA Tournament thread**
(03-18-2017 11:41 AM)ken d Wrote:  If we add more mid and low major schools, and they all flame out in the first round, how does that improve the tournament? Would the selection committee rig the seedings, pairing mid and low majors against each other, just to make sure some of them are still playing on the weekend?

Perhaps they would do that, indeed.

Wouldn't make much sense to get the teams in ... just to have them all lose on Thurs and Fri. The idea is to keep it interesting from Thur - Sun. Then in turns into a P6 tournament, after that.


(03-18-2017 11:41 AM)ken d Wrote:  As politically incorrect as this sounds, I don't see how giving automatic bids to the bottom 20 conferences (who did not win a single first round game this year) adds much value to this tournament.

Purely TV/advertising benefit.

Other than the super bowl, I don't think any other sporting event draws as much interest from non-sports fans and casual sports fans than the first Thur-Sun of March Madness.
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