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Here's my take,
The NCAA is going to 96 teams because they see money being left on the table with these other post season tourney's going on. I don't know how they could expand without significantly changing the current format, which has been perfect as far as the consumer has been concerned.
Now, comparing ncaa playoff participation to other sports we see that there is room for expansion.
All the pro sports have at least 25% participation with some going as high as 50%. Baseball has the biggest difference between the haves and have nots and therefore has the smallest playoff participation.
By contrast NCAABB only has 65/347=18% but also has a much larger difference between the haves and havenots. I would argue that anything more than 25% would significantly change the competitiveness of the tournament.
96/347 would equal 27%.
If play in games were instituted for all for all the top 4 seed games they could add 15 teams to the tournament and take it to 80 teams.
80/347 would equal 23%
If this were to have happened this year then by my calculations only 4 of the 15 new teams would be from a non big 6 conference, which would probably be extra controversial.
The NCAA is going to 96 teams because they see money being left on the table with these other post season tourney's going on. I don't know how they could expand without significantly changing the current format, which has been perfect as far as the consumer has been concerned.
Now, comparing ncaa playoff participation to other sports we see that there is room for expansion.
All the pro sports have at least 25% participation with some going as high as 50%. Baseball has the biggest difference between the haves and have nots and therefore has the smallest playoff participation.
By contrast NCAABB only has 65/347=18% but also has a much larger difference between the haves and havenots. I would argue that anything more than 25% would significantly change the competitiveness of the tournament.
96/347 would equal 27%.
If play in games were instituted for all for all the top 4 seed games they could add 15 teams to the tournament and take it to 80 teams.
80/347 would equal 23%
If this were to have happened this year then by my calculations only 4 of the 15 new teams would be from a non big 6 conference, which would probably be extra controversial.
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