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[QUOTE="MSGRET, post: 4466617, member: 8506"]
As long as the NCAA keeps on rewarding teams that play cupcake non-conference games, coaches will continue to schedule such games. The NCAA needs to punish teams for easy scheduling like LSU has done. To not play a team in the top 50 is outrageous, more emphasis needs to put on stuff like this.

I think that for every team that plays a schedule like LSU has done this year should be automatic disqualification from being a top 4 seeded team, another words that the team is not allowed to host a tournament game at home. This will force teams to play some competitive teams in non-conference games.

Another way of evening the playing field is limit the number of teams a conference can have at the dance, maybe 6 per conference with the AQ, then the five highest rated teams with SOS as a major portion of the equation. Teams with losing records in conference play can't get an invite, unless they win their conference tournament. This would give other conference's some more slots into the dance, look at what Fairfield and Princeton did and what a few of the NIT teams could have done in the tournament
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