Changes to the Women's Tournament

[Geew1992]

NCAA considering changes to women's basketball branding, tournament

The NCAA women's basketball oversight committee will make changes in accordance with the recommendations of an outside firm.

www.yahoo.com

I'm not sure about the 68 teams

 

[eebmg]

NCAA considering changes to women's basketball branding, tournament

The NCAA women's basketball oversight committee will make changes in accordance with the recommendations of an outside firm.

www.yahoo.com

I'm not sure about the 68 teams

Otherwise, known as the ND expansion. I know the joke wont age well but what the heck.

 

[Blakeon18]

Don't like 68 for the men ...or women. 64!

 

[eebmg]

Don't like 68 for the men ...or women. 64!

I know it does not prove anything but didn't the UCLA Men's team go from a first 4 game to the FF?

 

[bluedevil]

Follow the money.

 

[Blakeon18]

I'm afraid if we followed the money there would be precious few women's teams in college sports including basketball.

 

[the Q]

I'm afraid if we followed the money there would be precious few women's teams in college sports including basketball.

It wouldn’t be shocking if there would be zero.

 

[TC22]

I'm afraid if we followed the money there would be precious few women's teams in college sports including basketball.

Or men's teams for that matter.

 

[HuskyNan]

Or men's teams for that matter.

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Basically, March Madness is the NCAA’s bread and butter. In 2019, college athletics’ governing body earned $1.05 billion in revenue from the tournament, representing more than 90% of its annual revenue.

How Much Does the NCAA Make Off March Madness?

The NCAA pulls in about a billion dollars each year in revenue on the tournament from media rights fees, ticket sales, corporate sponsorships, and television ads.

www.investopedia.com

 

[Monte]

These committees have to issue sporadic statements to show that they are working hard to earn their salaries.

 

[topogigio]

There really aren't even 32 quality tournament teams in the Women's Division. The talent is really diluted after the top 20 -25 teams, and most early tournament games are non-competitive blowouts. Harsh, but true.

 

[Tonyc]

JMO folks If you wanna develop WCBB then you must include as many good teams as possible. Giving those not top 25 schools a chance to compete against the best. This will encourage those teams who win their conference a chance to play one of the top 25 teams which will help them build their program. Otherwise it is my fear that the top teams will continue to get the top players.

 

[wolfe613]

wonder if this is a reaction to having that report that the women's tournament lost 2.9 million

 

[Alydar]

wonder if this is a reaction to having that report that the women's tournament lost 2.9 million

Some of that deficit is due to a west coast final. I watched but fringe fans who never see a PAC12 game might not. I wonder what the deficit would have been if there were 16 sites to pay for?

 

[Boreifs]

There really aren't even 32 quality tournament teams in the Women's Division. The talent is really diluted after the top 20 -25 teams, and most early tournament games are non-competitive blowouts. Harsh, but true.

However, they have to include every Conference champion. To whittle down to 32, they would need to have four divisions, which isn’t a terrible idea.

 

[wolfe613]

Some of that deficit is due to a west coast final. I watched but fringe fans who never see a PAC12 game might not. I wonder what the deficit would have been if there were 16 sites to pay for?

no this was 2019

 

[Alydar]

no this was 2019

never mind.

 

[bluedevil]

How bout fewer teams in the tourny but you must lose twice to be eliminated? Isn't that what Women's softball does?

 

[VaConnFan11]

How bout fewer teams in the tourny but you must lose twice to be eliminated? Isn't that what Women's softball does?

Softball and baseball have 64 teams...16 4-team regionals, 8 2-team super regionals and 1 8-team championship.

 

[Vowelguy]

68 is a terrible terrible idea
The quality of play does not support.

 

[bluedevil]

Softball and baseball have 64 teams...16 4-team regionals, 8 2-team super regionals and 1 8-team championship.

And its gr8.

 

[bluedevil]

68 is a terrible terrible idea
The quality of play does not support.

well the quality of play doesn't support 48 either...

 

[Vowelguy]

well the quality of play doesn't support 48 either...

Perhaps, but no reason to make it worse.

Let the game catch up. It's getting there quality wise.
For those of us who follow bracketology closely, it's hard to find those last few teams every year.

 

[DEpup]

I don't think the present bracket set up supports 68 due to competitiveness but I do understand wanting more schools to be part of the tournament from a grow the game and business point of view.

I just hate the early round slaughters.

It would be better if the top half got some byes and the lower half played a couple qualification rounds to get into the later rounds. I think we'd get more competitive games instead of the heavyweights just killing these smaller schools in the first round after they worked so hard to just get to the tournament.

I don't know what ratings there would be but the games would be more competitive if say #9 played #16 and etc. in the first round. The winners would play seeds 5-8 and so on.

Its not perfect, nothing would be but just an idea to build on.

 

[Alydar]

I don't think the present bracket set up supports 68 due to competitiveness but I do understand wanting more schools to be part of the tournament from a grow the game and business point of view.

I just hate the early round slaughters.

It would be better if the top half got some byes and the lower half played a couple qualification rounds to get into the later rounds. I think we'd get more competitive games instead of the heavyweights just killing these smaller schools in the first round after they worked so hard to just get to the tournament.

I don't know what ratings there would be but the games would be more competitive if say #9 played #16 and etc. in the first round. The winners would play seeds 5-8 and so on.

Its not perfect, nothing would be but just an idea to build on.

I like the idea. Right now a bunch of small conference champs get to drive 5 hours by bus to get their butts kicked. The highlight of the game for them is warmups.
Give some teams double byes and a bunch single byes. Let the bottom half of the bracket compete with each other for a game or 2.
But the NCAA appears to be void of anyone with imagination or the guts to try something new. I'll bet they need 4 meetings over 2 months to decide on where the Holiday party will be held.