65 to 68, NCAA doesn't drop the ball and obliterate College Basketball

[jmayer1]

The reason that this decision is BAD for MU is because it makes us "non-BCS" schools expendable.  If a 96- team tournament was successful the major powers of the "super conferences" would have an impossible time putting a tournament together without the non-football and mid-major schools.  With a 68 team tournament it is possible for the super conference schools to say the heck with it and start their own 64 team tournament which leaves non-football schools (like MU) and all mid majors on the outside looking in.

So you could envision a tournament where every "BCS" team gets in and nobody else does?  I highly doubt that would ever happen.

[MarqKarp]

If the BCS schools think they can get more money that way, than absolutely!

[wadefan#1]

This is great compared to the thought of over 90 teams.

[Aughnanure]

So you could envision a tournament where every "BCS" team gets in and nobody else does?  I highly doubt that would ever happen.

+1, I don't know why people are freaking themselves out over this b/c it is so ridiculous. The Big Ten going to 20 teams isn't even close to as improbable as that.

Butler just went to the National Championship game and the entire tournament is marketed on its  'madness' in that you can't predict anything. They would lose a ton of money and credibility if they try that. If they do, the best and most successful thing to do is to form a basketball-only school super-conference to compete against it (which is the same thing these people piss on as an idea).

[PJDunn]

+1
The 68 game format is better for everyone, even the little $hit non-football schools like ours. 

[TJ]

The reason that this decision is BAD for MU is because it makes us "non-BCS" schools expendable.  If a 96- team tournament was successful the major powers of the "super conferences" would have an impossible time putting a tournament together without the non-football and mid-major schools.  With a 68 team tournament it is possible for the super conference schools to say the heck with it and start their own 64 team tournament which leaves non-football schools (like MU) and all mid majors on the outside looking in.

Why does the size of the NCAA tournament have any impact on whether the BCS conferences can break away from the NCAA and start their own organization with their own tournament?

[TJ]

+1, I don't know why people are freaking themselves out over this b/c it is so ridiculous. The Big Ten going to 20 teams isn't even close to as improbable as that.

Butler just went to the National Championship game and the entire tournament is marketed on its  'madness' in that you can't predict anything. They would lose a ton of money and credibility if they try that. If they do, the best and most successful thing to do is to form a basketball-only school super-conference to compete against it (which is the same thing these people piss on as an idea).

Do you really think that the basketball-only conference formations that have been proposed on this site would ever be described with the word "Super"?  It was the Big East minus some of the best programs and plus some mid-majors with decent basketball success.

On top of that, with no football 50-80% of college sports fans wouldn't care about the conference no matter how good it was.