can anyone here?

Two of the play-in games are between the 4 lowest ranked participants, each of which won the automatic bid from a minor conference. The other two play-in games are between the lowest 4 at-large bids.

In my opinion, all 4 play-in games should involve the last 8 at-large teams. For many schools, winning their conference tourney, going to the Big Dance, and getting demolished by a top seed is the biggest thing they have to play for. Depriving them of that thrill by pitting them against another lowly conference winner is unfair.
 
... or they should just go back to 64 teams and accept the fact that there are fewer at-large bids to go around.
 
... or they should just go back to 64 teams and accept the fact that there are fewer at-large bids to go around.
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Booooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray for at-large bids!
 
I just dont get the term "play in game". It's not really a play in when you get the automatic qualifing bid by winning your conference tourney. Technically its the first round.

Why not just go ahead and make it 96 teams, the top eight seeds get a bye and the first week three games instead of two.
 
It makes no sense to be punished for being a higher seed. It's better to be #12-#15 than it is to be 50% of the #11s.
 
I agree with Stat. The play-in games should only be between 16 seeds that have no business in the tournament because their conferences are terrible. Plus, it allows the teams from conferences that never win to at least get to claim tournament wins when they beat the other team with no business there.
 
Htown77 said:
...16 seeds that have no business in the tournament....
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...except that they won their D-1 conference tourney.

Htown77 said:
Plus, it allows the teams from conferences that never win to at least get to claim tournament wins when they beat the other team with no business there.
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I heard a radio interview of a Hampton player who was asked about Hampton's second NCAA tournament win ever. He was disgusted by the idea that the win over Iowa State years ago would be corrupted like that. These are not legit tourney wins, no matter what the NCAA says.
 
A team wins the sun belt in football every year. Should that team be in the football playoff?

The worst part is sometimes, the best team of a bad conference has an off game, does not win their lower conference tournament and some team with a terrible or losing record gets hot and gets in the NCAA.... which shows how really meaningless it is.

There are 32 division 1 conferences! No, winning a conference tournament of a bad conference is not meaningful. How many of these teams could TCU or even Tech beat? I know TCU beat Ole Miss at Ole Miss.
 
The worst part is sometimes, the best team of a bad conference has an off game, does not win their lower conference tournament and some team with a terrible or losing record gets hot and gets in the NCAA.... which shows how really meaningless it is.
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At the least, they should give the auto-bids to the regular season conference winners, not the conference tournament winners.
 
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