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[QUOTE="Exit 4, post: 4917161, member: 2268"]
Seems like once they are done with football they will get around to tinkering with the BB tournament.  Perhaps what we will see is a field of 96 with 32 playing teams playing 16 games on Tuesday.   Four more games in each bracket (another full day of TV and ticket sales).

I think the conference winners/auto bids should win the right for an auto bye on the play in game.   Not sure that can always lead to "fair" seeding however.   And yes, most of these 32 expanded seats will be going to power conferences by default.   Maybe the little guys will be able to successfully argue that the expanded seats should have a min win % to help cut down on the nonsense of a 17-14 middling SEC school winning out over a 5 loss second place A10 school.

I used to be highly dismissive of an expanded tournament, now after what they did with football, it just seems like a no brainer.

The brain teaser here might be how to structure the seeds.   Off the cuff, maybe the play in games should always be for the 8, 9, 10 and 11 seeds.
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