Want competitive games? Hand out a cash prize to each player of the winning NIT team.My idea is that the NIT winner gets an auto bid to the NCAA the next year.
It doesn't follow the coach or players, it stays with the school.
Want competitive games? Hand out a cash prize to each player of the winning NIT team.My idea is that the NIT winner gets an auto bid to the NCAA the next year.
It doesn't follow the coach or players, it stays with the school.
Want competitive games? Hand out a cash prize to each player of the winning NIT team.
I think combination of 2 is what makes it so great. Power 5 vs a Cinderella. When you get the rare 2 Cinderellas playing each other late in tournament those games seem to have less hype. There was some really teams to miss the dance this year. St John's, Pittsburgh, and Indiana State would of been really dangerous teams in particular in my opinion.
Going to 96 or 128 is absurd and shouldn't even be entertained but I wouldn't mind a smaller expansion. Maybe 72 or 76. Start this opening round a little earlier in day add 1 to 2 games. I'd watch
You cant really award a bid to regular season champions anymore because of how unbalanced some of these schedules have become in conference play.They should go the complete opposite direction, with bids only going to every conference regular season and tournament champions and filling out the rest of the field/seed the tournament by highest NET. Everyone would schedule heavy in the non conference for NET purposes, the regular season and tournaments would mean everything to everyone, and the committee could be taken out into the street and shot.
Unless the winner is EIU....My idea is that the NIT winner gets an auto bid to the NCAA the next year.
It doesn't follow the coach or players, it stays with the school.
This grumpy old man says take the NCAA tournament back to 64 teams.
Some of it is the transfer portal opened on Monday so teams have players going into the portal so they wouldn't be eligible to play. Wait until the Tuesday after the championship game would probably help so I assume the NCAA will do the opposite.Why are schools declining the NIT?
I would prefer 68 over any expansion or changes, but if a change must be made I would prefer it the way you stated it. Since the play-in games were introduced I felt like the 16 seeds who lose in the play-in game don't feel to me like they were "in the tournament". I'm guessing they feel similarly. They won their conference tournament, they should be the real deal.Yes, but I do like the added Bubble Teams playing in for a 10-12 seed. I say make the first four a first 8, expand to 72, but all the play-in games are for the last at large spots. Stop punishing the smaller schools, let them play the 1 and 2 seeds. We probably won't see as many 15 and 16 over 1 as have been happening lately, but more people would be interested in the first 8 games as it really is bubble busting games.