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- Thread starter dahliaclone
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Major difference is 1 and 2 teams are advanced to semifinal round, 3 & 4 to quarterfinal. The "front end" of 8v9 and 7v10 is identical.
Rather than try to explain it entirely, here's a visual.
(Edit: @theshadow got to it first)
I think that is a little over the top. Could you imagine if the tournament is at one site having to be in town for 6 days for a 10 team tournament? I don't think fans would necessarily like that.
I didn't think about it from that standpoint. Good observation.
Maybe the thought process is: the 7-8-9-10 fans aren't expecting team to be in it for more than a couple of days, whether it were traditional 4-round setup or this one. 5 & 6 might be willing to miss opening round but realistic shot for quarterfinal, that's two days. And so on. Depends I suppose on how ticket sessions are set up.
Not sure I'm describing it effectively.
The basic concept is probably smart for leagues that tend to have multiple at-large contenders year to year but may be susceptible to losing bids if they get bounced too early in the conference tournament.
I certainly have watched way more of these small conferences the last few days than I have all year.
Would be nice for the smaller leagues if the best team from that league went to the big dance. Probably wouldn't be a much higher upset rate but if the best schools from those leagues went they probably would have a better showing than a lower team that got hot in the conf tournament.
Truthfully I like any method that gets more mid major teams into the field, which I think the tournament champ AQ helps accomplish. I'd much rather have Drake AND Bradley in the field this year at the expense of another mediocre P5 team (even though I'm guessing metrics don't really like them comparatively)
I went to the First B1G Tournament Championship and semi-finals @ Chicago.
Tractor Traylor Time! Later vacated, of course.
I've also been to the ACC Tournament @ Atlanta and the A-10 Tournament @ Cincinnati.
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I like it! I think there should be two teams from every conference: The Regular Season Champion and the Tournament Champion (in which the Regular Season Champion does not play). So, Kansas would already have one bid, and the other 9 teams would play in KC for the 2nd bid. Eliminate all the garbage bids AND give the other conferences an equal chance.
This is known as the “Protect Gonzaga” bracket method.
Not really, but it all but removes the chance of them losing to a bad team and hurting their seed line. My understanding is that Gonzaga was pretty adamant about using this format.
