Enjoy Selection Sunday - It may never be the same

[cosmo_kramer]

It isn't official yet. The Basketball board or whatever it is called has to also approve it, but they probably will.

That's not how I interpret it. The article says the BOD approved the expansion and the basketball committee will decide the format for the addition of the three new teams:

"The [men's basketball] committee will have to study any variety of options and certainly the notion of looking at options involving the last at-large teams in would be one possible option," NCAA vice president Greg Shaheen told The Associated Press. "We would expect the committee to examine all of the options."

 

[hancox]

You're both right.

It's official that the tourney will be 68 this coming year.

The tournament committee needs to implement the change - meaning, decide how the selection is done.

 

[Ramy]

I was just going off what ESPN said this morning.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

I think this should add some interest to these "play-in" games:

The final four at-large teams and final four automatic qualifiers in the newly minted 68-team NCAA men's basketball tournament field will meet for the right to enter the traditional 64-team draw, tournament selection committee chairman Dan Guerrero announced Monday.

The "First Four" will be played either the Tuesday or Wednesday after Selection Sunday. The winners of the four games will advance to what will now be called the "second round" on either Thursday or Friday. The newly named third round -- with 16 games -- will be Saturday and Sunday. The rest of the tournament -- regional semifinals (Sweet 16) and regional finals (Elite Eight) -- will remain as they have been, as will the Final Four, which is set for Houston in 2011.

This is the first time the last four at-large teams will be revealed publicly. Traditionally, the at-large teams are scattered throughout the seeding process, rarely going past No. 12, making it relatively easy to identify them. Yet the committee now will formally announce the last at-large teams by putting them in the first round.

NCAA reveals format of new 68-team tournament - ESPN

 

[Ramy]

I like this over the 96 they talked about.

 

[Jimbo]

I like this over the 96 they talked about.

I'd rather go back to 48 or even 32 .....

How about getting it to teams that actually have a CHANCE ...

 

[cosmo_kramer]

I'd rather go back to 48 or even 32 .....

How about getting it to teams that actually have a CHANCE ...

Good luck with that. With $$ obviously driving decisions you know that will never happen....