Expansion of NCAA tournament

[coachdags]

The time has definitely come to expand the field to 128. NFL Football – 12 of the 32 teams make the playoffs 37.5%; Major League Baseball – 8 of the 30 teams make the playoffs 26.7%; NBA Basketball 16 of the 30 teams make the playoffs 53.3%; NHL Hockey – 16 of the 30 teams make the playoffs 53.3%. There are 341 NCAA Division I Basketball Teams. Currently only 65 make the NCAA Tournament which is 19.1%. Expanding the field to 128 still only means that 37.5% make the playoffs. That still leaves a lower percentage than all sports other than Major League Baseball. I would definitely be in favor of expanding the field if the NIT, College Basketball Invitational (CBI), and the CollegeInsider.com Tournament were disbanded.

there is always some math major that does his homework, and makes sense.... Nice Job

Now go to work on a selection process......? That maybe more difficult,.

I do not have the answer, so many varibles......(In 5 years their could be another 50 D1 schools)

[hurdleisu24]

Since someone is figuring these percentages. How many teams finished the season with records 2 games over .500?

[GeronimusClone]

You wouldn't have them as 16 seeds you would have them at 11 or 12 seeds.

So you'd wait to seed the tourney until the play-in games are over? Kind of kills selection Sunday.

[hurdleisu24]

No what you do is seed all the teams in the bracket. Then you take the last 4 in and first 4 out. Then you say this match up winner is an 11 in this region and so forth

[cyclonenum1]

Hey, why not! Post season play in MBB is a much more difficult thing to attain than post season play in CFB. The mediocre coaches in MBB deserve the same breaks that the mediocre CFB coaches get...don't they?

[cycloneryan]

I hope they never do that. All that would do is start to reward teams that had average seasons. It would be good for mid major teams but who cares about them on this site?