NCAA Tourney Thoughts

[xu koop scoop]

Backfeed welcome. 4 of us who have been XU fans for 30 plus years have had a recurring talk about how teams get selected to the Dance. Implementing these lessons, but not eliminates the "slightly partial committee's" decisions. Here goes:
1. All League Champs still in.
2. Any team under .500 in their league NOT ELIGIBLE. So if you finish 9-9 & lose 1st League Tourney game, you finish under .500.
3. Any team that finishes undefeated in League play or wins League outright by 2 or more games guaranteed a play in game, even if they lose League Tourney.
4. No League Tourney Champs would be forced to have a play in game.
Reasoning for all this: Many of these "Non Power Leagues" have teams good enough to compete with the 6th or lower place team that made the dance from a Big 6 Power Conference. "Non Power League" teams often play 2/3 of non-conference games on road vs Power Leagues who can get 2/3 or more non-con games at home. "Lesser League" teams also can't get Top Teams to schedule them at all - or NEVER at home. Currently, teams know how to "manipulate the ratings system" to get into the dance. This would lessen, but not eliminate the "computer rankings" bias.

[Shadow]

FYI
While editing the above post I noticed an oddity with the profanity filter on this site with the words "Feed & back" when combined, i.e., "*****".
Now "Backfeed" is evidently acceptable - go figure,

[kyzrex]

The only thought I have on the NCAA tourney is that I want X to get there and reach the top!