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Years ago

NCAA Tournament, how does it work?

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NCAA tournament is 64 teams knockout in every round through to national championship game - early rounds are played in 4 regions ... you can follow the results and matchups here for Div 1 men ... click on the drop down for other divisions ...

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1

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MACDUB

Years ago

Which is why those mid-major conference tournaments are so intense – because if mid-majors lose their conference tournaments they are extremely unlikely to get a bid on selection Sunday.

Other teams can rest a little easy – obviously they still want to win. But if you saw Syracuse the other day, the team weren’t too disappointed with the outcome. In fact, coach Boeheim (sp?) was laughing at the fact his team missed 6 shots in the last 20 seconds (After getting multiple O Rebounds)

One team is always going to be an innocent victim of the system. This year, it was SMU. They were ranked at one stage, and IIRC were still ranked at the end of the reg. season, yet they did not receive a bid.

Very unfair I thought.

Being a mid-major is a bit of a double-edged sword – if you win your conference tournament = great your going to the dance.

But when you lose, the media in particular will always downplay your ability and use the “weak strength of schedule” argument (which is fair enough sometimes – except in Wichita State’s case) even if you finished the season with a nice record like SMU did (23-9)

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