SHR: NCAA Tournament to Possibly Expand

[Herdguy04]

Expansion for both the men's and women's tournament will go to 76 teams.

Of course, they're "working out the logistics" AKA "how much money can we squeeze out of a tournament that never should have expanded in the first place."

Sources: NCAA nears decision on larger tourney

A decision on whether or not to expand the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments will be made in the upcoming weeks, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

But, if 8 more spots open up, could help a team like Marshall somewhere down the road.

 

[herdfan06]

This was announced over fifteen years ago.

 

[muthed]

Expansion for both the men's and women's tournament will go to 76 teams.

Of course, they're "working out the logistics" AKA "how much money can we squeeze out of a tournament that never should have expanded in the first place."

Sources: NCAA nears decision on larger tourney

A decision on whether or not to expand the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments will be made in the upcoming weeks, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

But, if 8 more spots open up, could help a team like Marshall somewhere down the road.

Not a chance. It will mean that 18 team conferences will now get 20 teams in the tourney. Like ACC Duke will get their first five in, then their second five will be placed as an 8-seed. It will be set up so the P-4 will reap the benefits, and the G-5 will get a variation of reap.

 

[Herdguy04]

Not a chance. It will mean that 18 team conferences will now get 20 teams in the tourney. Like ACC Duke will get their first five in, then their second five will be placed as an 8-seed. It will be set up so the P-4 will reap the benefits, and the G-5 will get a variation of reap.

We'll see.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Unless we win the league, we don't have to worry about it.

 

[herdfan429]

We'll see.

If you actually think this will benefit the small schools then I've got a bridge to sell you real cheap. This will give the 12th ranked .500 sec team an at large bid at the expense of a sun belt team that lost the conf championship but went 25-7

 

[HerdGradinFL]

Really, look at the schedule. We didn't play any schools from major conferences. Look who we played, Queens; TN Tech; Coppin State; Chicago State; Glenville State; some MAC Schools and SBC teams. We never played a ranked team. If we played an SEC schedule we would have had a losing season. Seriously, it was a weak schedule and we didn't deserve an invite to The Big Dance without the automatic bid.

2022-23 Marshall Thundering Herd Men's Schedule and Results | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Check out the detailed 2022-23 Marshall Thundering Herd Schedule and Results for College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

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[TwolfHerdfan]

We've had on at large bid in our schools history - over 50 years ago. The only way we would get one these days is to basically go undefeated but lose in conference tourney finals.

 

[Herdguy04]

If you actually think this will benefit the small schools then I've got a bridge to sell you real cheap. This will give the 12th ranked .500 sec team an at large bid at the expense of a sun belt team that lost the conf championship but went 25-7

I said a team LIKE Marshall...there are plenty of teams who aren't part of big conferences but have good programs this could help them with.
I am fully aware the power conferences take most of the spots, however, I'm remaining optimistic this would give a G5 program who would've been left out, a spot, and they make a deep tournament run because of it, with the power conferences annoyed it happened.

In short, this is meant to benefit the power conferences but the lower conferences produce a team(s) that ruin it for them.

 

[Herdguy04]

Really, look at the schedule. We didn't play any schools from major conferences. Look who we played, Queens; TN Tech; Coppin State; Chicago State; Glenville State; some MAC Schools and SBC teams. We never played a ranked team. If we played an SEC schedule we would have had a losing season. Seriously, it was a weak schedule and we didn't deserve an invite to The Big Dance without the automatic bid.

2022-23 Marshall Thundering Herd Men's Schedule and Results | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Check out the detailed 2022-23 Marshall Thundering Herd Schedule and Results for College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

www.sports-reference.com

No sh*t, everyone knows this. The schedule was for awful.
MU basketball is stagnant and will be for a while.

 

[herdfan429]

No sh*t, everyone knows this. The schedule was for awful.
MU basketball is stagnant and HAS been for basically ever.

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