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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5002323, member: 1023"]
Right. I think it didn’t pass this year but there was a bill in the Carolina legislature to require UNC to play NC State annually and ECU and Appalachian State home and home on a rotating basis.  (1 each year, not both). If you think UNC is leaving NC State high and dry like UCLA did to Cal think again.

I guess you can make any criteria you want.  Heck in the 1960s the NIT was much more highly regarded than the NCAA.  Until the mid-70s it wasn’t unusual for teams to select it over the NCAA if they got invited to both.  The NCAA was limited to conference champs plus a handful of Independents.  Most of the original Big East were Independents.  A few were in sort of quasi-leagues from time to time.  More akin to the Little 3 than the Big 10, if you will.  A bunch of teams in the same area who played each other because they were nearby so they gave themselves a name.   Then there were teams that really were Indy.  UNC gets conference champion points from the 1950s.  So does UConn.  Georgetown was Independent until the Big East was formed I believe.  It was in the 1970s at least.

I think we should consider giving points for teams that wear blue.
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