Re: NDSU/SDSU to MVC asap.
Posted: April 13th, 2017, 5:11 am
Kenpom or not I don't accept it. Preseason 10th?? Crazy. Preseason RPIs this early are truly speculative. Too much happening in all D1 BB to be accurate: coaching changes, teams changing conferences, player transfers, player early departures to the NBA draft, team(s) downgrading to D2 (Savannah State), budget crunches, etc, etc, etc.
No way can MVC stay where they are in the power rankings with 9 teams and WSU leaving (too big a SHOCK! pun, pun). Regardless of how/who MVC adds it will remain a 1 bid conference---that is how the NCAA is set up---unless the conference season champ gets beat in the conference tournament and the NCAA feels sorry for the season champ and takes both---NCAA will remain locked on the auto bid to the tournament champ. The NCAA selection process is not a selection process--the 32 conference auto bids nullifies the selection process and makes it a seeding process.
If NCAA wants to better the selection process reduce auto bids to the top 8 or 9 conference tournament champs and then actually select the remaining 56 to 60 teams---at the same time restrict the number of teams to ???? from any one conference---to do 1 they have to do 2---for example selecting 7, 8, 9 teams from the P5/Big East is ridiculous and is killing mid-major BB. In 2017 only 9 conference had 2 or more teams in the Tournament--23 conference had only only 1 bid/team in the Tournament.
No way can MVC stay where they are in the power rankings with 9 teams and WSU leaving (too big a SHOCK! pun, pun). Regardless of how/who MVC adds it will remain a 1 bid conference---that is how the NCAA is set up---unless the conference season champ gets beat in the conference tournament and the NCAA feels sorry for the season champ and takes both---NCAA will remain locked on the auto bid to the tournament champ. The NCAA selection process is not a selection process--the 32 conference auto bids nullifies the selection process and makes it a seeding process.
If NCAA wants to better the selection process reduce auto bids to the top 8 or 9 conference tournament champs and then actually select the remaining 56 to 60 teams---at the same time restrict the number of teams to ???? from any one conference---to do 1 they have to do 2---for example selecting 7, 8, 9 teams from the P5/Big East is ridiculous and is killing mid-major BB. In 2017 only 9 conference had 2 or more teams in the Tournament--23 conference had only only 1 bid/team in the Tournament.