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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5045924, member: 1023"] The problem is that a tournament without UConn won’t matter that much. As long as it has major media attention it will be THE TOURNAMENT. It will have names that most casual fans know. Sure people will miss the early round upsets and the unexpected runs, UConn and Gonzaga aren’t those teams any more. Villanova…uh no. And if they really wanted to the P4 could throw a few bones to non-members, like 2-4 at-large bids to teams like UConn and Gonzaga and San Diego State and DePaul (ok you get that was a joke, right?) sort of like what the Big and SEC are doing with the Big 12 ACC and G5 in football. The other leagues don’t like it but fear what happens if they don’t accept it. Maybe it is even 6-8 at large to the top non-power schools. If there is a positive it would be that the NIT would become more popular again. [/QUOTE]