One thing I would change about Tournament Selection

[whaler11]

Clearly? Is anyone complaining that Dayton is still playing? The "people want the basketball powers in the second weekend" argument is used to justify games like Kentucky/Wichita State, where Kentucky got a foul call on almost every miss the last 12 minutes of the game.

I think you are arguing that we should make the bottom of the field worse so that the powers are more likely to skate through until later rounds. Is that right?

Do you actually read anything anyplace else?

I'm not talking about powers. I'm talking about fans. Fans want Michigan State and Virginia in the sweet 16. Not Dayton and Stanford. This is what causes the committee to stack the deck against Wichita State because they know schools like Mason and VCU are bad for Final Four ratings.

I'm not arguing to make the bottom of the field worse. I'm pointing out that the small conferences don't exist to give you exactly what you want. They have decided to run their conferences in the best way they see fit for themselves.

Nothing is stopping anyone from moving to the Ivy model - yet nobody does.

Your proposal would put better teams in the bottom of the bracket. It would also end the season for 150 schools before it even starts. So sorry if those schools want a reason to play and it doesn't give you the matchups you want in a handful of games in March.

 

[BlueHen]

If a team with a weak record gets hot for three days and wins its conference tourney have them play in one of the "play-in" games. I think that 's what happens now, so I'm not sure that I'm suggesting a change here; but that is how I would do it.

My understanding is that margin of victory (mov) is not one of the metrics that the selection committee uses when selecting and seeding teams, they don't want teams running up the score. If that is the case then I would change that. The indicators that use mov tend to be more accurate predictors than the ones that do not. The RPI does not use mov. If the NCAA is worried about running up the score they can have a cut off at a certain number so that any more points don't help.

If my understanding about mov is wrong, well then, never mind.