The NCAA Tourney already includes virtually every D1 school in the country. If you are in a conference with a conference tournament, you are in the NCAA Tourney. Just keep winning and you will eventually win a national title.

Should there be a retroactive Quad Win-Loss Analysis based on

1) ratings at the end of the regular season; or
2) ratings based on the end of conference tournaments.

OR

3) is this already done??

(please pardon my ignorance)

 

Last edited by Basketball Jones (3/16/2024 6:00 am)

Yesterday, seven #1 seeds went down before their conference finals.: Tennessee, Arizona, Utah St., Sam Houston, Norfolk St.., Quinnipiac and UC Irvine. although the first three are obviously in while the last four are out.

Was great to see Purdue lose. Big Ten officials treat PU like Duke. Edey parades to the free throw line when opponents breath on him. Today in the final seconds against Wisconsin, a Badger player drove the paint for an unmolested jump shot to win. What did Edey do? Backed away from the shooter.

PU sucks and is a creature of corrupt Big 14 officiating. They'll have another early exist in the tournament.

Dambrot seems like a cool guy, too, and good coach, who probably should have coached at a higher level.
Even without Bamisile, whom one should care for as much as he cared for us, wouldn't want to root for annoying VCU.

It's another exhibit for patience.  Dambrot stock up down up down.  Don't have to fire everybody all the time.  Grass isn't always greener especially at a place that's tough to win

I'm certainly rooting for Duquesne I just think VCU is probably going to win. 

The A10 teams 2-8 were all pretty good this year. They would all be dangerous in the tournament to win a couple of games.  In an expanded field the gaps between the last teams just not very large.  The league got a lot better this year it just got a lot better evenly spread instead of a few teams only

Speaking of evenly spread and a lot better take a look at the New Mexico versus San Diego State game and a loaded Mountain West.  There is no team more entertaining in the country than New Mexico with their three-star guards and uptempo pace led by two NBA players sons house and mashburn

Connecticut 73 Marquette 57

31-3 Connecticut blows out Marquette for the third time this season and takes the Big East championship crown. 

10 years ago Danny Hurley was turning around the worst program in the Atlantic 10 today he has the best program in the country looking like a dynasty in Connecticut

New Mexico beats San Diego State to take the Mountain West title with three straight quad one wins. A team that was supposedly on the wrong side of the bubble is now going to be about a 6 or 7 seed based on the resume.

When you watch Oregon and NC State, both needing wins in Power Conference Finals to get in, you see how clearly the gap in talent between the last 10 in and the next 10 out isn't that big if it exists at all, expanding the tourney would add more Oregons and NC States (and whatever 2 teams they just pushed out) caliber teams that are just as good as the last teams in.

Providence is now (I think) going to be left out, but we just saw even without their best player they can beat a Creighton (twice) and Marquette and Wisconsin and yet even this field of 68 they wont make it (probably)

Colorado is now on the bubble and they have 2 NBA players and a top 25 computer #s

 

Any of you guys think Dayton could be left out?  I’m beginning to wonder. Their performance down the stretch has give the Committee an excuse. You compare their last five or  six games to St John’s and there’s no question who the better team is right now. I see Jerry Palm has dropped them to the always dicey “Last Four In” status. Losing early in the A-10 Tourney may make them vulnerable.

Duquesne was up by 18 first half, VCU chipped away, but still down considerably at
36-22 first half.
    Don't know what will happen with Duquesne playing more games this week, but havoc
hasn't been revived.
  And it would be nice for Dambrot to get this, especially if he is retiring.