Running 2018 college rings postseason thread

Poor Vermont. That's a good team that won't get in now.

 

Hell of a shot by that UMBC guy.

Looks like Vermont is going to head to the NIT with 27 wins.

 

That may be the most annoying trait of the selection committee--its penchant for screwing over mid-majors that had great seasons and were regular season conference champs, just so they can instead put in yet another 13 loss team that finished around 8th place in a power conference.

Seems to me a basic requirement for earning an at large bid should be that you had a successful season. I've no interest in seeing teams that couldn't even finish in the top half of their conference in the tourney to determine the national champion.

 

I think it is unfair that a school from a low major conference can have a hell of a season, dominate a conference, and not go the the tournament because of a last second buzzer beater. I acknowledge the interest a tournament creates.

So I would expand the field to 96 and give each conference two slots, one for the regualr season winner and one for the tournament. When a team wins both then the conference would send one more. This would have the practical effect of expanding the at-large field by about eight schools. There are roughly 30 conferences and 68 current slots so an additional 28 teams would go. Normally about 10 conferences get multiple slots so another eight large teams would go. The play-in games could be played the site of the regional.

 

They gave some teams, Kentucky included, fits in the nonconference, but couldn't quite get a signature win. Sucks for them.

 

Alabama will become the first at-large team to lose 15 or more games overall and finish with a losing record in its regular-season conference play.

 

I don't know, can a conference tournament be profitable just because the final is on ESPN?

 

It could be interesting to see if this affects the way teams schedule in the coming years. UNC’s win at Davidson is now a Q1 win, beating a Top 75 team on the road. Of course, Davidson played that home game at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte in front of mostly UNC fans.

 

That's another thing I hate, big teams that play all but their conference road games either at home or at a "neutral" site that will be overrun by their fans. Mid-majors have to play true road games to get a shot at the sort of games that prevent the old "Well, they didn't play anybody" treatment.

 

I saw a quote from Bruce Rasmussen that he'd like to see OOC SOS and the like taken off the board in the near future. That would pretty much eliminate any chance for non-power conferences to get at larges. The chance is almost gone now, but that will be the end of it. And I wonder if that would be his opinion if Creighton was still in the Valley?

 

My God, who did he piss off to merit that punishment?

 

Ok, this is high school, not college, but I needed somewhere to put it. I don't know when I've seen a dirtier play than this.

Kansas high school player commits dirtiest foul of the year on breakaway dunk