Friday, May 18, 2018

Just go ahead to do it!

The ACC is reportedly going to propose expanding the NCAA tournament field to 72 teams from the current 68. They have their reasons, but let's be honest: the coaches want it because it helps them with job security. Everyone is (wrongly) measured in college basketball by whether or not they make the tournament. So, they want to make it easier to make the tournament, and I can't blame them for that.

So will we be chipping away, making the tournament a little bigger every few years to help the coaches who just missed the tournament the last time? Little by little we water it down. Why not just bite the bullet and have an all-inclusive NCAA tournament? Go ahead and do it! Eliminate the conference tournaments, since they would then be pointless anyway, and include every team that is eligible in the NCAA tournament. Make it like Indiana's state championship used to be. Then it would truly be the Big Dance. I do not like that option, but it is better than killing the significance of the tournament by inches.

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