(03-07-2018 05:00 PM)leofrog Wrote:  

(03-07-2018 03:51 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Someone floated this idea...why not have conference tournaments be round robins? Bring in the top 6 teams and do a round robin. Tiebreaker is head-to-head and then higher seed.

That's way more fair than this one and done crap that eliminates the best team from the 1-bid conferences far too often.

What's fair is what each conference decides. If a team gets hot and wins 3/4 games in March, then they get the bid. If the conference wants to change the rules, it's up to them.

One thing I'm surprised that more conferences have not done is the double bye for its top teams. I know some have, but conferences like the Horizon should.

a lot of times I know in the past conferences that do that haven't had success with it. a team gets hot in the conference tourney and then they just don't stop.

I'm a fan of conference tournaments where the 1 and 2 seeds have byes to the semi-finals, 3 and 4 have byes to the quarter finals, and the rest of the pack hav to fight their way up. It rewards teams for strong conference play in the regular season and increases your chances of landing your most deriving teams into the Big Dance.

(03-07-2018 05:00 PM)leofrog Wrote:  

(03-07-2018 03:51 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Someone floated this idea...why not have conference tournaments be round robins? Bring in the top 6 teams and do a round robin. Tiebreaker is head-to-head and then higher seed.

That's way more fair than this one and done crap that eliminates the best team from the 1-bid conferences far too often.

What's fair is what each conference decides. If a team gets hot and wins 3/4 games in March, then they get the bid. If the conference wants to change the rules, it's up to them.

One thing I'm surprised that more conferences have not done is the double bye for its top teams. I know some have, but conferences like the Horizon should.

Some have tried that and it still didn't work. The lower seeded teams still broke through the double bye.

Liberty hosting on Monday.

https://www.liberty.edu/flames/index.cfm...wsID=19859

Niagara accepts CIT invite; site, date and opponent TBA

NYC Buckets says Canisius is the first team in the CBI, while Duquesne and Tennessee Tech will not take a CBI/CIT invite.

Drake has accepted a CIT invite and will host.

https://twitter.com/drakebulldogsmb/stat...30434?s=11

Miami will be in a tourney TBD, likely the CBI since CIT participants have to have a winning record (we're 16-17).

https://twitter.com/MiamiOH_BBall/status...3235172353

SMU will not accept an invite to the CBI or CIT

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college...ss-nit-bid

Wish the NIT would go to 64 teams like the WNIT.

(03-09-2018 07:11 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Wish the NIT would go to 64 teams like the WNIT.

Dear lord know. It is bad enough to have 36 to play to be the 69th best time.

(03-09-2018 08:03 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 07:11 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Wish the NIT would go to 64 teams like the WNIT.

Dear lord know. It is bad enough to have 36 to play to be the 69th best time.

Presumably a 64-team NIT would cripple if not outright kill the CBI and CIT, so you'd still have the same number of postseason teams or possibly fewer.

Fort Wayne is hosting a CIT game and Central Michigan is also participating.

Teams rejecting the CBI/CIT: Albany, Ball State, Hawaii, Oakland, Old Dominion, SMU, Wyoming

(03-09-2018 07:11 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Wish the NIT would go to 64 teams like the WNIT.

NIT needs to go 64 and CBI/CIT banned. CBI/CIT games on tv is ridiculous.

South Carolina is also taking a pass on the third-tier tournaments, though they wouldn't qualify for the CIT as a power-conference school anyway and the CBI hasn't had one since Texas A&M and Oregon State in 2014, so it may be a moot point.

(03-09-2018 09:41 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 07:11 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Wish the NIT would go to 64 teams like the WNIT.

NIT needs to go 64 and CBI/CIT banned. CBI/CIT games on tv is ridiculous.

You do realize the NCAA bought the NIT as the were being sued for Anti-Trust by the NIT? CBI/CIT would love to cash in if the NCAA were to do this. This why I crack up when people complain the CFP is anti-trust and want the NCAA to take over. It was the 1980's supreme court ruling against the NCAA for violating Anti-Trust. NIT was just too late to realize they should have done this first.

265 RPI Abilene Christian is playing a nationally televised game next week. EIEIO needs to go.

Don't watch. Nobody forces you to watch the CIT or the Cure Bowl. Some might enjoy it. Good for ACU and their players.

and UC Davis is 6th NIT bid thieve.....

Got tomorrow a ton of 1's playing in title games-
Am East- Vermont vs 2 seed UMBC
Big Sky- Montana vs either 3 E Washington or 10 Sothern Utah
MAC- Buffalo vs 2 seed Toledo
MEAC- Hampton vs 6 seed NC Central
Southland- SE Louisiana vs 3 seed SF Austin
SWAC- Arkansas Pine Bluff vs 3 seed Texas Southern

and maybe WAC with New Mexico St vs 3 seed Grand Canyon

(03-09-2018 09:30 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 08:03 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 07:11 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  Wish the NIT would go to 64 teams like the WNIT.

Dear lord know. It is bad enough to have 36 to play to be the 69th best time.

Presumably a 64-team NIT would cripple if not outright kill the CBI and CIT, so you'd still have the same number of postseason teams or possibly fewer.

That wouldn't be the end of the world.

The bigger issue is how it would take more time to complete and be further buried under the headlines and broadcasting times since as long as NCAA Tournament games are being contested, no one but college basketball diehards and fan bases of participating teams will pay any attention.