The conferences decide whether to award the winner of their conference tournaments the auto bids. They can choose to send their champions, like the ivy use to. What izzo is suggesting is taking even that away from the mid majors. And keep in mind, uteps conference would definitely fall outside the acceptable range.
I much prefer what the NCAA has done thus far - allow for the play in games to be any seed between 10-16 to be in the play in games to allow for more mid level bubble teams to make it. If anything, expand those play ins so the committee can beat keep the lowest teams at 16 while allowing every conference to still get a bid and money.
This is the correct interpretation of Izzo's statement. Essentially, he wants the whole Tournament to be at large. His excuse is that games with mid majors have low ratings past the first weekend. The real reason is probably that his team was on the bubble this year, something he wouldn't have had to worry about if the P5s dominated the selections even more. It's a load of horse sh!t.
I drank the Colorado St. Kool-Aid after Tuesday night. Not looking good so far against Texas. Maybe Virginia really was that bad.
Defensively they have been just fine against Texas. If you told Unihorn Texas would only have 27 points at halftime, he would think they were losing.
I still don't understand how schools like Oakland can find a shooter from some D2 school and we cannot.
Barstool sucks but so, so glad arrogant arse Alford is done.
Gohlke is now HIM! My guy looks like a middle-aged YMCA all-star!
Yep and at halftime it was reported that they were 24-0 when winning at the half this year.
At this point, it's the narrative around the MWC. They're the one of the few non-major that get multiple bids but they fall on their faces in the tournament. Add that to the week of they got disrespected talk, and it just further enforces the narrative.
My bad for not counting the play in game. By the way, I didn’t know Clemson was part of the MW?
They also got called for a ghost foul late where they got the steal and the Kansas guy fell on his own.
Thanks for the informative reply. I can see where you are coming from.
Ugly offensive performance last night by both teams. Disu and Abmas are gonna have to dial it way up to beat Tennessee.
The thing about SDSU is that no one on here had them making the Sweet 16 last year, I said 2 years earlier they were headed to at least the Elite 8 as they were built for it.
Disagree. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was going to stick a 30 foot junper in someone's face and make One Shining Moment this year.
