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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
I dispute everything you wrote. There's almost no gap mathematically between any of these top teams and nobody would watch your format as it would kill drama or fair (level) system it provides. No sense debating it, agree to disagree.
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The problem is you are thinking in terms of predictive measures. I'm talking in terms of what a team has earned & achieved. You shouldn't be seeded based off of predictive measures. I think KU is only marginally better than some teams who have lost 9 games. But guess what, KU didn't lose 9 games. They need to be compensated for that as much as possible just like Villanova, the Pac 12 winner, ACC winner, etc. It's already a ****ing joke that they award the automatic bid to the winner of the little cute conference tournament instead of the REGULAR SEASON GRIND OF 15 or 16 conference games.
I don't think home court games would ruin anything. I don't think people who bet on the games give a shit where they are playing the games. You still have a chance of a team with a number 12 by their name beating a number 5, and people freaking out thinking it's some amazing upset (when in reality it's barely an upset, if one at all) If anything, it would add more character and flair to have it in a historic gym like The Palestra, AFH, Cameron, etc. I don't know how that is bad for the game versus having it in sparsely filled arenas where 80% of the crowd doesn't care who wins or loses.
In fact, while we are on it. I think the power 5 conferences should agree to remove NCAA from the equation. Make their own tournament, get the midmajors to sign on with it. Higher seeded teams get home court advantage, and the schools keep all of the revenue instead of letting NCAA have their cash cow and hoarding all the revenue.