Conference Tournament formats

Gee, Kong. Where's the MONEY in that suggestion?

I'm old fashioned. I STILL like the Big 8 preseason tourney from yore.

I HATE this money grubbing scheme.....I just worry that someone will get hurt.....

I could care less about the byes. My biggest gripe has nothing to do with our conference tourney, since so often it has little to do with where we end up post season. I think it CAN help a team like KSU this year who are one of the last 4 out of the brackets, as they can play themselves in.

My biggest gripe actually comes from the smaller conferences that are only going to send 1 team anyway. It happens far too often that a team from a small conference does a great job all season, wins the regular season, and then gets bumped because they blow it in the conference tourney. To me, that's exceedingly unfair and stupid. For small conferences who are only going to send 1 team anyway, and are unlikely to advance beyond the first round no matter who they send, the idea that you could win your conference season by a large margin, and then have one off night and lose the opportunity to play in the biggest stage in college basketball seems pretty rotten.

Then again, it's all money. If the conference tourney is meaningless, then the money dries up.

Here's my solution, by the way...in case the NCAA asks: Let each conference decide who they want to go however they want. I'd recommend a conference coach's committee. Give 1 point to the conference regular season champ, one point for the tourney champ, and 1 point decided by a poll of the coaches (can't vote for your own team) as a tiebreaker.