If the P5 and BE (and perhaps the A10 and MWC) left the NCAA to run there own tournament, what would the Big Dance look like?

You’ve started about 100 threads on this site yet the next quality one you make will be your first.

NOBODY forcing you to read them!

26 autobids—48 teams total.

As the old NCAA cash dries up and the old tv deal gets replaced with a much smaller one the financial viability for remaining “D1” dissipates for a lot of schools and conferences and we start to see an exodus for lower cost D2 play.

Eventually the field shrinks to 32 or 36.

(04-01-2021 04:31 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  You’ve started about 100 threads on this site yet the next quality one you make will be your first.

Twelve conference champs (about 144 teams in all) plus 36 at large. Top 16 teams get first round bye. First three rounds played in first week, and Elite 8 the following week at a single site.

(04-01-2021 04:31 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  You’ve started about 100 threads on this site yet the next quality one you make will be your first.