The NCAA tournament should cut down from 65 to 32 teams

[Justin7]

No team seeded below #8 has ever won the dance. So why bother even giving them a chance? Do you really want to see the lucky Cornell's and Washington's get crushed in the later rounds?

Flush the toilet. Limit the mediocrity, and only take 32 teams.

The 33 teams that "should have made it" - send them to the NIT. But limit the NCAA tourney to quality. Don't waste our time on "drama stories" about wannabes that will just get knocked out.

Reducing the number of teams also lowers the volatility for the good teams. Northern Iowa has no chance to win this tourney, but with a little luck, they knocked out the best team in the country. Kansas should have won this tournament, and very well might have if you kept the field to 32.

And brackets... The NIT will have 64 or 65 teams. And, there won't be the same disparity. The difference between the #33 team and #96 team in the country is a lot less than #1 and #64.

My proposal is simple: limit the NCAA championship to the true champions - the top 32. The rest of the riff-raff can play in true madness - a 64 team NIT.

[The Seer]

It will never happen. $$$$$$$ Instead, they are going to expand it.

[rm18]

Don't like this, of course Northern Iowa can win the whole thing it is just a longshot. Same thing in the NBA a #7-8 seed has never won it all

[Chi_archie]

because to win it.... a #1,2,3,4,5 ect needs to PROVE It by beating a 15 seed or a 12 seed and a 8 seed ect...

we weed out, the teams that can't be hot over a 3 week period and crown the team that played the best for this period of time.... its not about if the high seeds CAN win it.....

but if the low seeds can beat some of the best teams in the country from other conferences.....

in your format, alot of GREAT teams that no one really knew were great wouldn't get a shot for that "one shining moment" and be rewarded for going 28-5 and 15-1 in conference ect...

[Fishhead]

Thank you justin!!!


Just another reason i refer to this tourney as ....




the big fraud

[pronk]

I'll pretend i didnt hear that.

[Justin7]

At least with a 96-game format, the weak teams will exhaust themselves before losing to the top 32. Not as good as just scrapping the bottom of the barrel, but it will make upsets less likely (in the first non-playin round).

[Fed_42420]

True Champions dont lose to N.Iowa when everything is on the line. Dont even try to tell me Im wrong you know im right.

[Fed_42420]

Kansas should have won this tournament, and very well might have if you kept the field to 32.

Now thats just plain stupid!! Theres nothing more to say

[Chi_archie]

computer geek/number crunchers that are all about making a profit on sports is great.


but I think the general public would vote 95% or higher AGAINST going down to 64 teams....

makes no sense financially for networks, colleges, ncaa, venues, ect ect....fans would hate it, players would hate it, coaches would hate..... just about everyone but fishhead and dustin7

[rm18]

Villanova should of won it all not Kansas

[pavyracer]

Lets just go straight to Final Four and cut the bull. Why bother with 32, 16 and 8?

[jjgold]

makes the regular season meaningless then and not going to happen

[dwaechte]

This is a mind-boggling suggestion. You're basically advocating eliminating the post-season altogether.

[uanl]

hope it goes to the 90something teams that they want to expand it to...more games to bet on!

[yisman]

I don't like it.

The committee cannot be trusted.

Also, FISHHEAD thinks it's a great idea. He's wrong about almost everything.

[JohnnyDr@ma]

worst op ever

[Bootylicious]

They should just have a bunch of home and home series, call them "bowl" games and vote on a national champion like Football, the only real way to determine a champion.