Re: Bubble Watch 2/10/23
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:38 pm
Hall2012 wrote:I don't love the idea of expanding the tournament, but I would like a system somewhat like UEFA Champions League qualification that would award a predetermined number of bids to each conference and then let the conferences decide how to allocate them.
Let a conference ranking system through OOC play determine the number of bids each league gets and go from there.
So for example, let's say that as the 3rd ranked conference the Big East gets 6 bids. The conference can them determine that they'll award those bids to the BET champion and the top 5 regular season finishers. If the BET champion comes from the top 5, resulting in a double qualification, that extra bid would go to 6th place.
It would create an atmosphere of "bubble" teams at this point in the season knowing what they need to do rather than hoping the selection committee likes them in an apples to oranges comparison against teams from other leagues.
Seeding would still be determined by the committee and I'd even let them make at-large "wildcard" selections for the last 4 in/play-in games.
I disagree with this big time. Teams get bids, confrerences don't. Like this year the Big East might have due to OOC only had 4 bids. Your thing would lead to more real undeserving teams making the tournament.