Another thread about NCAA Tournament teams

[HRTheCard]

Should a 17-15 MAAC team champion get an auto bid over a 17-14 P5 team?

I don't think they should. Just like the Texas thread, it should go both ways......if a team like Lipscomb or Belmont are put up against Texas, they should get in over them because of record, eye test, NET, etc.....However, just because a team in a terrible mid major conference wins the championship they should get in? Even at 17-15? What would their record be if they were in the P5?

Discuss.

 

[jhmossy]

Better question: Would Texas win the MAAC?

 

[HRTheCard]

Better question: Would Texas win the MAAC?

IDK, but I think Indiana would lol

 

[xWVU2010x]

The NCAAT has never been about the best teams, the autobid is for the sole purpose of including every single NCAA conference first and foremost and the at large spots are the best remaining teams. It is a made for TV spectacle, you get a day or two of real life “Hoosier” moments, and then you get the heavyweight fights at the end. No one is upending the spectacle to let in more sub .500 power conference teams, it’s not what the NCAA wants or the majority of their audience.

Honestly there is more than enough at large spots for any team remotely worth a crap to compete for, no tears here for teams on the wrong side of the bubble in the current format regardless of conference. If your team is on the bubble they probably just aren’t very good. Anyone can get hot and get past the first weekend, especially teams not seeded 8-9 as they avoid the 1 seeds, but they by and large are not title threats.

Random bubble memories from me though, WVU were right on the bubble in 2007, had an opportunity in the conference tournament to get a coveted quality win that the media were saying they had to have, lost at buzzer, they kept their heads up and won the NIT. The core of that NIT team went on to get the school its 2nd ever Final Four. In 2012 they were on the bubble again, this time the right side, got blasted in round 1 and the core of that team went on to sink the program to Huggins first consecutive year tournament hiatus since his first two seasons at Cincy. However the history books say the 2012 team was better than the 2007 team.