NCAA - Big Dance Thread of Champions

[Hogfan58]

here's an explanation why we ended up in portland. 

https://x.com/Bauertology/status/2033378264727818451

The issue isn't where, the issue is when. The rule should be if you play in a conference final on Sat, you play on Thur; if you played on Sun, you play on Fri. That's fair. Making a team that played on Sun play again on Thurs, PLUS have to travel over 1,000 miles isn't right no matter who is doing it.

[SwahiliSteve]

The issue isn't where, the issue is when. The rule should be if you play in a conference final on Sat, you play on Thur; if you played on Sun, you play on Fri. That's fair. Making a team that played on Sun play again on Thurs, PLUS have to travel over 1,000 miles isn't right no matter who is doing it.

yall acting like it will take all day to get to Portland. Don't they just fly direct on their plane or do they fly commercial?

[vegashog]

they fly charter, and will leave tomorrow morning. travel will probably affect the coaches more than the players.

it's sec that insists on having the championship game on sunday, and it's why cal hates playing in it. the ncca doesn't have to change their seeding formula because the conference won't start the thing a day earlier.

[animal]

The issue isn't where, the issue is when. The rule should be if you play in a conference final on Sat, you play on Thur; if you played on Sun, you play on Fri. That's fair. Making a team that played on Sun play again on Thurs, PLUS have to travel over 1,000 miles isn't right no matter who is doing it.I'm

Without getting overly into it I'd suspect there is a math problem to be worked out in order to do what you are advocating.

There are 68 spots, 31 automatic bids leaving 37 at-large bids. Selection Sunday had 5 auto bids yesterday punch their ticket and issued 3 of them for Thursday games. The seeding is what is going to really matter here. If we were say the #1 overall #4 seed maybe they would have given us a Friday game. IDK how that works but probably works something like that. 

Barring common sense and understanding that there are four #4 seeds and I'm going to hazard 2 of them play on Thursday and 2 of them on Friday. I get it...Kansas lost on the 13th and will be fresh as a daisy come Friday. Would it have been a big deal to ship them assholes to Portland and us to San Diego? Probably not. Does anyone give a fuck up there? No

The main issue is the tv deals and our conference. We should be ending our tournament on a Friday. That would do two things. A. Make the SECT more competitive incentivizing competitive play by having a longer rest for the final teams competing. B. Gives the Selection committee ample opportunity to figure out how to fuck Arkansas. Hell by Sunday the committee might not even agree Arkansas is a state.