Teams go thru a whole season of games, lose in their conference tourney after one bad outing. Suddenly they are yesterday's garbage. Unless you are P5.

CHANGE:

1. Regular season champion gets the automatic bid. Off till tourney.

2. Remaining teams play the conf. tourney in hopes of winning and getting in OR improving their resume for at-large berth(s).

3. If the conf. tourney champ does not get an at-large they are guaranteed an NIT berth.

4. Teams who perform well at the conf. tourney have three things to play for:

--- Improve resume to increase chances for an at large NCAA bid

--- If already considered an at-large they are playing to boost their seeding

--- Can capture an NIT bid, NIT at-large, improve their NIT seed by playing well

I am sure this idea can be picked apart but I think it has a lot of advantages.

(03-10-2020 01:51 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Teams go thru a whole season of games, lose in their conference tourney after one bad outing. Suddenly they are yesterday's garbage. Unless you are P5.

CHANGE:

1. Regular season champion gets the automatic bid. Off till tourney.

2. Remaining teams play the conf. tourney in hopes of winning and getting in OR improving their resume for at-large berth(s).

3. If the conf. tourney champ does not get an at-large they are guaranteed an NIT berth.

4. Teams who perform well at the conf. tourney have three things to play for:

--- Improve resume to increase chances for an at large NCAA bid

--- If already considered an at-large they are playing to boost their seeding

--- Can capture an NIT bid, NIT at-large, improve their NIT seed by playing well

I am sure this idea can be picked apart but I think it has a lot of advantages.

It's not a bad idea but right now the only televised game for these 1 bid leagues is the conference championship game. Take away the automatic bid and they won't even have that 1 televised game.

I do think giving the NCAA autobid to the season champion would improve the field of the 1 bid leagues in the NCAA tourney.

(03-10-2020 01:51 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Teams go thru a whole season of games, lose in their conference tourney after one bad outing. Suddenly they are yesterday's garbage. Unless you are P5.

CHANGE:

1. Regular season champion gets the automatic bid. Off till tourney.

2. Remaining teams play the conf. tourney in hopes of winning and getting in OR improving their resume for at-large berth(s).

3. If the conf. tourney champ does not get an at-large they are guaranteed an NIT berth.

4. Teams who perform well at the conf. tourney have three things to play for:

--- Improve resume to increase chances for an at large NCAA bid

--- If already considered an at-large they are playing to boost their seeding

--- Can capture an NIT bid, NIT at-large, improve their NIT seed by playing well

I am sure this idea can be picked apart but I think it has a lot of advantages.

I thought it was up to the conferences and that some actually do it this way (not sure about the guaranteed NIT bid for conference champ and doubt anyone rests and doesn't play in their tourney.

Personally it sounds like March lameness to me. It's tourney time. Every team in the country can win the national title if they just keep winning and advancing.

(03-10-2020 01:51 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Teams go thru a whole season of games, lose in their conference tourney after one bad outing. Suddenly they are yesterday's garbage. Unless you are P5.

CHANGE:

1. Regular season champion gets the automatic bid. Off till tourney.

2. Remaining teams play the conf. tourney in hopes of winning and getting in OR improving their resume for at-large berth(s).

3. If the conf. tourney champ does not get an at-large they are guaranteed an NIT berth.

4. Teams who perform well at the conf. tourney have three things to play for:

--- Improve resume to increase chances for an at large NCAA bid

--- If already considered an at-large they are playing to boost their seeding

--- Can capture an NIT bid, NIT at-large, improve their NIT seed by playing well

I am sure this idea can be picked apart but I think it has a lot of advantages.

Interesting concept.

I would make it a simple change.

Play the conference tourney.

NCAA must choose either the regular season or the tourney champ. The one not chosen goes to the NIT. Obviously, if the regular season champ wins the tourney, they will be chosen.

That gives a real incentive in the conference tourney AND it takes a step toward minimizing the bloated number of P5 schools in the NIT, often with losing records in their conference.

I’d be in favor of an expanded tournament where every conference got two autobids, one for their regular season champ and a second for the tournament champ. Regular season champs would not participate in the conference tournament.

(03-10-2020 01:57 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  Personally it sounds like March lameness to me.

"Lameness" is playing an 18 or 20 game conference regular season and the winner gets nothing more than a seed in a conference tournament.

Why do so few people care about the college basketball regular season? The #1 reason why is that giving autobids to conference tournament winners and nothing to regular season winners makes the entire regular season dam near irrelevant.

No chance of this. It was only about 45 years ago the ACC was the only conference with a tourney.

(03-10-2020 03:15 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(03-10-2020 01:57 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  Personally it sounds like March lameness to me.

"Lameness" is playing an 18 or 20 game conference regular season and the winner gets nothing more than a seed in a conference tournament.

Why do so few people care about the college basketball regular season? The #1 reason why is that giving autobids to conference tournament winners and nothing to regular season winners makes the entire regular season dam near irrelevant.

Only problem now is with 14 and 15 team conferences do you really want an automatic bid determined by who gets lucky and only has to play Duke once at home vs. a team that has to play them twice? Of course auto bids mean nothing in the ACC but in a one bid conference they'd certainly matter. Not every mid major can play double round robin.