College Hoops Around The Country [TN opponents, RPI, others]

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VolsSportsFan said:
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Like the local team near me (Bradley) they now play most games at the smaller campus arena (4700), instead of the 11,000 seat civic center -- happens when a program sucks and nobody shows up at games --same happened with DePaul years ago
 
#3,053
#3,053
I wish all these 1 bid leagues would do what the
A-Sun does and have the higher seeded team host.

Love that as opposed to the neutral site.
 
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#3,055
#3,055
volfanngatorland said:
I wish all these 1 bid leagues would do what the
A-Sun does and have the higher seeded team host.

Love that as opposed to the neutral site.
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I wish they'd do like the Ivy League used to do, give the bid to the regular season champion. If 2 teams tie, have a 1 game playoff for it. It seems ridiculous to me that a team that was the best all year won't get the bid because they couldn't win a 3-4 day tournament.
 
#3,056
#3,056
VolsSportsFan said:
I wish they'd do like the Ivy League used to do, give the bid to the regular season champion. If 2 teams tie, have a 1 game playoff for it. It seems ridiculous to me that a team that was the best all year won't get the bid because they couldn't win a 3-4 day tournament.
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I definitely agree with this as well, although it does make these conference tournaments exciting and mean so much.
 
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#3,060
VolsSportsFan said:
I wish they'd do like the Ivy League used to do, give the bid to the regular season champion. If 2 teams tie, have a 1 game playoff for it. It seems ridiculous to me that a team that was the best all year won't get the bid because they couldn't win a 3-4 day tournament.
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Good call. That’s actually pretty messed up.
 
#3,061
#3,061
Today's rooting guide.

Seedline:
Syracuse over UNC (even though I think UNC is firmly ahead of us even w a loss)

RPI/Quadrant:
South Carolina over Ole Miss
NC State over Boston College
Iowa St. over Texas
Virginia Tech over Notre Dame
California over Stanford
DePaul over Marquette
Oklahoma St over Oklahoma
Georgia over Vanderbilt
 
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#3,062
#3,062
golfballs said:
Today's rooting guide.

Seedline:
Syracuse over UNC (even though I think UNC is firmly ahead of us even w a loss)

RPI/Quadrant:
South Carolina over Ole Miss
NC State over Boston College
Iowa St. over Texas
Virginia Tech over Notre Dame
California over Stanford
DePaul over Marquette
Oklahoma St over Oklahoma
Georgia over Vanderbilt
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Thanks golfballs.
 
#3,064
#3,064
NC State is on a mini-run. BC leads 59-47 now. Good game...but have you noticed how refs never call traveling when players change pivot feet anymore? This game is full of that and the announcers don't even mention it. It's like it's legal now.
 
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Damn, this makes me even more pissed about how screwed over NC State was in that game against GT. Had they won that game, they would have been a 4 seed in the ACCT, and all but guaranteed as a Q1 win for us.
 
#3,067
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VolsSportsFan said:
I wish they'd do like the Ivy League used to do, give the bid to the regular season champion. If 2 teams tie, have a 1 game playoff for it. It seems ridiculous to me that a team that was the best all year won't get the bid because they couldn't win a 3-4 day tournament.
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This is something that's discussed every year and I like it as it is.

Let's start with the presumption that for the most part, no team "deserves" to go from these one bid mid majors. Case in point the Horizon league. Northern Kentucky U is bummed that they easily won the league title but won't be dancing because they were defeated in the league tourney. Well NKU has an RPI in triple figures. They don't deserve to go nor will they win anything if they do.

This makes the conference tournaments exciting. Admittedly this isn't the way to give us a league's best team but if the idea is to put the best teams in the NCAA tournament then these suck leagues wouldn't get anyone in.

It isn't about putting in the best teams. It's about excitement and fan interest.
 
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