or make the conference tourney win mean something - like giving all conf tourney winners the top 32 seeds, and anyone that didn't win their tourney could only get a #9 seed, at best.....stop sacrificing the MEAC conference winner to Duke/Kentucky every season, in the '1st round' games. those teams deserve an opportunity to do more than lose by 40 to the # 1 team.

Posted by crazyivan on 10/5/2015 1:20:00 PM (view original):
or make the conference tourney win mean something - like giving all conf tourney winners the top 32 seeds, and anyone that didn't win their tourney could only get a #9 seed, at best.....stop sacrificing the MEAC conference winner to Duke/Kentucky every season, in the '1st round' games. those teams deserve an opportunity to do more than lose by 40 to the # 1 team.

that would be horrible, say the #1 team loses in the CT finals with 1 rpi and 1 sos they can only get a 9 seed at best? lol

uh, i think that was my point - you lose your conference tourney, you pay the price of a lower seed. it's not about winning your first 30 games of the year - it's about winning at  the end of the year.
just because you have 10 teams, it doesn't make anyone else's comments less valuable.

im with theonlyis on this one... when you have a brutal conference, with 4 of the top 10 teams, it would be ridiculous to give 1 of them a 1 seed and the other 3 9-10 seeds. it would basically make being a 1 seed a punishment - you end up facing one of the best teams in the country in round 2. far better to be a 2-4 and snag a far weaker at large opponent up front and then some mediocre BS mid major in the sweet 16.

for a seeded tournament to make any sense, it has to be seeded in some semblance of priority order. i don't think it would be insane to say, cap an auto bid at a 14 seed minimum, if you are trying to reward those incredibly awful teams who already got a major reward in even showing up for the NT, where they would have a snowballs chance in hell at making it in a real conference. but i do think it would be insane to say those guys have to be in the top 32.