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Post by sharkey on Oct 27, 2023 13:13:39 GMT -5
So the NCAA just announced that teams that win the regular season championship, will no longer be guaranteed the NIT bid. Translation: only 1 MAAC program, the tournament champion, will be playing in the postseason. x.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1717965695961477495?s=20 |
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Post by Joebird on Oct 27, 2023 13:21:46 GMT -5
So the NCAA just announced that teams that win the regular season championship, will no longer be guaranteed the NIT bid. Translation: only 1 MAAC program, the tournament champion, will be playing in the postseason. x.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1717965695961477495?s=20Absolute garbage! Can we please add 2022 to our NIT banner, we will never be in it again! |
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Post by IONA86 on Oct 27, 2023 14:18:03 GMT -5
This is a test run for getting rid of mid and lower level conference teams from the NCAA tournament. Plain and simple. The NCAA is now run and regulated by the power conference schools. Unless the mids demand a larger seat at the table now, they will pushed out.
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Post by Joebird on Oct 27, 2023 14:30:33 GMT -5
This is a test run for getting rid of mid and lower level conference teams from the NCAA tournament. Plain and simple. The NCAA is now run and regulated by the power conference schools. Unless the mids demand a larger seat at the table now, they will pushed out. The only thing keeping mids now is I believe the power schools know the beauty of the tournament is the little school upset. I think it drives the tournaments popularity and in turn keeps the tv money going up. Not sure it would do as well without the little guys. That being said they don’t want any of us in the sweet sixteen or god forbid what St. Peter’s did. A first round upset is all they want to allow. They need about 12 of us in there to have that happen. If they go to 96, it probably would only get a few more mids in. |
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Post by broguy99 on Oct 27, 2023 14:36:14 GMT -5
In my opinion, this is Step 1 for the NIT being absorbed into the NCAA once it expands. First they need to screw the mid/low majors. Get them used to having no Postseason without winning their conference tournament. Sure maybe the CBI or whatever the low tournament is now will take them but who really wants that.
Then once that goes on for a bit the NIT will cease to exist and they will expand the first 4 into a full on round of 64 teams, with the 32 winners playing the top 32 teams that got a bye past the opening round.
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Post by Joebird on Oct 27, 2023 14:40:39 GMT -5
In my opinion, this is Step 1 for the NIT being absorbed into the NCAA once it expands. First they need to screw the mid/low majors. Get them used to having no Postseason without winning their conference tournament. Sure maybe the CBI or whatever the low tournament is now will take them but who really wants that. Then once that goes on for a bit the NIT will cease to exist and they will expand the first 4 into a full on round of 64 teams, with the 32 winners playing the top 32 teams that got a bye past the opening round. Yeah and their never giving both both the tourney and regular season winners an automatic bid into the ncaa tourney from a league like the maac. |
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Post by broguy99 on Oct 27, 2023 14:51:23 GMT -5
In my opinion, this is Step 1 for the NIT being absorbed into the NCAA once it expands. First they need to screw the mid/low majors. Get them used to having no Postseason without winning their conference tournament. Sure maybe the CBI or whatever the low tournament is now will take them but who really wants that. Then once that goes on for a bit the NIT will cease to exist and they will expand the first 4 into a full on round of 64 teams, with the 32 winners playing the top 32 teams that got a bye past the opening round. Yeah and their never giving both both the tourney and regular season winners an automatic bid into the ncaa tourney from a league like the maac. I had hope that if they did expand to 96 or something similar they would give auto bids to reg season champs but this ends that hope. Smaller conferences are going to have to make decisions about what to do with their top team in the regular season? Do you scrap the tournament and take the reg season champs as your auto bid? Do you sent the reg season champs right to the title game in the conf tournament? Who knows. |
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Post by epatrick on Oct 27, 2023 15:20:24 GMT -5
This is a test run for getting rid of mid and lower level conference teams from the NCAA tournament. Plain and simple. The NCAA is now run and regulated by the power conference schools. Unless the mids demand a larger seat at the table now, they will pushed out. Hope they realize the tournament won't garner the interest of sports fans who like to bet the true underdogs. |
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Post by Cjb on Oct 27, 2023 16:02:27 GMT -5
So the NCAA just announced that teams that win the regular season championship, will no longer be guaranteed the NIT bid. Translation: only 1 MAAC program, the tournament champion, will be playing in the postseason. x.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1717965695961477495?s=20Terrible. Much like college football bowl games, it'll be a boring rotation of the same teams every year. Total money grab so the rich get richer. RIP March Madness. |
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Post by IONA86 on Oct 27, 2023 16:06:29 GMT -5
So the NCAA just announced that teams that win the regular season championship, will no longer be guaranteed the NIT bid. Translation: only 1 MAAC program, the tournament champion, will be playing in the postseason. x.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1717965695961477495?s=20Terrible. Much like college football bowl games, it'll be a boring rotation of the same teams every year. Total money grab so the rich get richer. RIP March Madness. Since a large percentage of these schools seem to be in support of socialism, maybe we should put all the revenue into a big pile and divide them up equally for all of the schools. |
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Post by broguy99 on Oct 27, 2023 17:15:42 GMT -5
The new commish has balls I'll give him that. Good to see his response
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Post by Joebird on Oct 27, 2023 18:23:25 GMT -5
This seemed to wake up a pack of little angry dogs! I would not be stunned if they reverse this decision. Maybe they increase the field to 40 and have all the automatic qualifiers from the non power 6 schools play in a play in round.
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Post by GuyF on Oct 27, 2023 18:29:26 GMT -5
This seemed to wake up a pack of little angry dogs! I would not be stunned if they reverse this decision. Maybe they increase the field to 40 and have all the automatic qualifiers from the non power 6 schools play in a play in round. Yup. Unless this is a precursor to some other change, this is the dumbest move ever made. I have not see ONE person tweet "hey, that's a good move". |
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Post by maacmaniac on Oct 27, 2023 19:46:51 GMT -5
JMO, Good riddance…. the NIT meant something years ago ( almost 50 years now) when the NCAA had only 28 teams in the tournament. I do not see the excitement in it anymore.
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Post by sharkey on Oct 27, 2023 19:55:07 GMT -5
JMO, Good riddance…. the NIT meant something years ago ( almost 50 years now) when the NCAA had only 28 teams in the tournament. I do not see the excitement in it anymore. Well, it was a way to reward teams for battling thru 20 conference (possibly 24 next year) games and winning regular season titles, just in case they slipped up in conference tournaments. |
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