Buy-Sell.

[patdog]

The fact that mediocre teams like MSU and UM are even on the bubble proves that instead of expanding to 96 teams, the NCAA tournament needs to contract back to 48 teams.

Buy in bulk. There are far too many mediocre teams playing in the tournament now. If you cut back to 48, you wind up with roughly the top 36 teams in the country plus about 12 small conference champions. Advantages I see include:

1. No bad teams get at large bids.
2. The little guys get a semi-realistic chance to actuall win an NCAA tournament game, as they'd be playing 5-7 seeds in the 1st round instead of 1-3 seeds.
3. We'd still get to see just as much basketball the 1st 2 days as we do now. There'd just be 2 games going on at a time instead of 4. We wouldn't miss as much of the tournament as we do now.

 

[Dental Dawg]

nm

 

[patdog]

We'd still have those.

 

[rem101]

Said a few years ago, none of the teams on the bubble would even sniff the NCAA. And I agree. I don't know if its a trend being set, or just a year of everyone blowing it.

I'm going to push though. No need for expansion, but no need to lower it either.

 

[jcdawgman18]

That just seems like the right number. No byes, everyone plays the same number of games. And as "mediocre" as bubble teams may supposedly be this year, I don't see how they're any worse than any other year. Bilas has been trying to say that, but I think he's full of crap. We should have beaten Kentucky, who he claims has far separated themselves, yet we're somehow not even good enough to be on the bubble in his mind. <div>
</div><div>Plus, a big part of March Madness is the frantic attempts to get in that make it interesting.</div>

 

[RebelBruiser]

Said a few years ago, none of the teams on the bubble would even sniff the NCAA. And I agree. I don't know if its a trend being set, or just a year of everyone blowing it.

I'm going to push though. No need for expansion, but no need to lower it either.

I think it's just the quality of basketball that they're talking about more than anything. The quality of basketball has really gone down. You can blame the AAU programs for that, but that's where we stand today. Less talented teams would beat today's more talented teams because today's teams, generally speaking, don't play good basketball. Ole Miss and MSU are fine examples of that.

 

[Dental Dawg]

I guess you are right, but I always like to pull for the really ****** team knocking off a Duke or Kansas.