(03-12-2018 04:14 AM)nj alum Wrote:  An honest article from ESPN about the rigged system:

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketb...nt-chances

Hollow response last night from selection chair Rasmussen when asked about the new quadrant parameter hurting the mid majors, and he stated when put in place it was designed to encourage more high majors to schedule away games with non P5's, since it gave more opportunites for quad 1 wins for the P5's. Course it has had no impact on that and just resulted in below .500 conference win P5 teams getting a boost in the evaluation.

Drew's comment in that article about expanding to 96 teams is an awful idea.

Would be a lot simpler and fairminded to have a fixed number of entries/conference based on conference RPI rank at the end of the season. The top rated conference gets x number of berths, including the tournament winner and conference team standings. Number of fixed berths/conference scaled on down the line, with bottom ranked conferences only getting one automatic berth. The fixed number/conference rating scale would be based on whatever the mathematical model is to generate the 64 team field. Of course that would mean the day of 12 team power conferences would go out the door, since they could no longer channel in 9 teams.


The lack of transperancy and behind closed doors subjectivity will continue to scream rigged.

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