Couldn't care less about the stupid committee and the so-called major conferences getting 8-10 in.
Watching the Penn-Harvard Ivy League champ game. Good basketball. Fun to watch.
Couldn't care less about the stupid committee and the so-called major conferences getting 8-10 in.
Watching the Penn-Harvard Ivy League champ game. Good basketball. Fun to watch.
I don't understand the love affair the committee has with the SEC. This is the least interested in March Madness I've been in years.
Don't watch it anymore, don't fill out brackets anymore.
I quit watching the bracket show as soon as the at-large list was announced. There wasn't anything else I was interested in.
The Turner Sports geniuses who changed the format of the show plus expanded it to 2 hours will find that their ratings likely fell off a cliff after the first 30 minutes.
Don't get your hopes up. The new formula, assuming it still happens, will just be more window dressing the committee will selectively apply. The new formula won't be selecting the at-large teams. This year they added other metrics like KenPom and others including composite averages to the selection sheet, but it appears they pretty much ignored it. KenPom #28 was snubbed while KenPom #69 got an at-large bid. The truth is the NCAA selection committee doesn't care about analytics. All they care about is power and money, and no formula will change that because they can choose to apply it or not however they want to justify whatever end result they want.
Agreed. There's outrage for a couple hours. Cmte chairman brushes off a couple questions with no follow-up. Nothing is done about it. Then the cycle repeats itself again 365 days later. Tweaks to formulas won't accomplish anything as long as the cmte selecting the teams doesn't change.
- Cartel teams with 15 losses are getting at-large bids.
- Cartel teams with losing records in conference play are getting at-large bids.
- Cartel teams with RPIs 60+ are getting at-large bids.
- Cartel teams with 300+ non-conference SOS rankings are getting at-large bids.
- Cartel teams with only 2 road wins are getting at-large bids.
The committee does not care about numbers or analytics. Under the current system, they selectively apply whatever they want to justify supporting the Cartel. Changing the formula accomplishes nothing. The system is what has to change.
That pretty much nails it -
If I'm HC at a G5 school - I forget about "resume" building in planning my schedule - I line up as much wins as humanly possible and then try to win the regular season to assure the most favorable slot in the conference tourney and guarantee the minimum a NOT bid
No way OU and Bama should of made the field
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I'm actually not hopeful at all. But there are expectations within the non-power leagues that changes will be made. If not, it's believed by some the Presidents within the non-power leagues now have the votes to press the issue. There are a lot of rumors flying around. And roughly 75% of Division 1 is outside of the power leagues. They could easily force mandates on the Committee.
After yesterday's debacle, nothing would surprise me.
Last edited by The Historian; 03-12-2018 at 09:24 AM.
But feel free to call me the fool — knowing full well that the NCAA is among the most corrupt and morally bankrupt organizations in North America, I still underestimated how unfair it could be.
This writer asks a fair question. How many members of the Committee actually saw St. Mary's play even one game?
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/03...ge-basketball/
Last edited by The Historian; 03-12-2018 at 10:44 AM.
At this point I thank god we still have an auto bid.