Should the play-in game involve automatic tourney bid winners or just at-large teams?
The past couple of years, teams that won their conference tournament and received an automatic bid have played in Dayton. Why not make two at-large teams play for the right to play in the tournament?
NCAA Play-in game
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NCAA Play-in game
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Re: NCAA Play-in game
Seems like that would make sense, but I don't think we'd like the results of how they'd do it. First off, they'd never put a major school in a play-in game. Or definitely not match two of them up. So that leaves it as mid-majors playing in, and making the tourney as an at-large mid-major, to me at least, means that you've earned the right in the regular season to not have to play an extra game come tournament time.transfer2BGSU wrote:Should the play-in game involve automatic tourney bid winners or just at-large teams?
The past couple of years, teams that won their conference tournament and received an automatic bid have played in Dayton. Why not make two at-large teams play for the right to play in the tournament?
I guess they could always use their "last four in" idea to decide who plays, but I'd bet that would also get skewed away from the big boys as well.
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Re: NCAA Play-in game
Because the two worst teams in the NCAA tournament are always conference tournament winners.transfer2BGSU wrote:The past couple of years, teams that won their conference tournament and received an automatic bid have played in Dayton. Why not make two at-large teams play for the right to play in the tournament?[/color]
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Strange thought - what if Dayton had a terrible year (say 6-23 in regular season), but won the A-10 tourney? They'd get to host the play-in game, or do the rules of nobody hosting a 1st or 2nd round game also apply to this game? Move the game to the Nutter Center? Dayton gets to be one of the #16 seeds that skips the play-in game? 
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The "play-in game" is crap. If they can have one play in game why not have one for each region and make the field 68 teams? All 4 games could be played on the Wednesday after selection Sunday and then the field is set for Thursday.
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