ncaa-tournament-reform Stories - Blogging the Bracket
68-Team Bracket Format FINALLY Revealed
In news that was expected to be announced last week, the NCAA announced the format for the Opening Round for the newly-expanded Men's Basketball Championship on Monday afternoon. For starters, the "Opening Round" is no more. Instead, eight teams will play in a revamped First Round or "First Four,"...
Reforming The Tourney, Part 6: Two Ways To Get To 96
Back on Monday, which seems like it was about a month ago at this point, rumors of NCAA Tournament expansion started to swirl again. Over on SB Nation, I laid out a simple plan to expand the tournament, one that keeps both the regular season and conference tournaments relevant and gives the...
Reforming the Tourney, Part 5 - Opening Round Roulette
In my previous entries in this series, I've focused on keeping the 64-team NCAA field, or (gasp) shrinking it. This piece represents a turning point, as from here on out, I'm going to look at several different ideas for tournament expansion. The Opening Round is the simplest place to start this...
Reforming the Tourney, Part 4 - The NCAA Champions League
You may be wondering why the trophy for the biggest club soccer competition in the world (Sorry FIFA, the Club World Cup doesn't count.) is at the top of a blog on college basketball. Don't worry, the NCAA isn't taking a page from the NFL's apparent playbook and thinking of taking the Final Four...
Reforming the Tourney, Part 3 - The Best 64
In my previous two entries in this series, I've concentrated on the past, when the only way into the tournament was to win your conference's championship. This time around, I'm taking the opposite approach. Taking the lead of a blog post Jay Bilas put up on ESPN.com back on March 5, this bracket...
Reforming the Tourney, Part 2 - Making Both the Regular Season and Conference Tournaments Meaningful
In Part 1 of this series, I looked at what the NCAA tournament would have looked like had selection focused solely on the regular season conference champions or auto bid winners. In this new--yet slightly unplanned--entry, I'm going to combine these two brackets into a larger "field of champions."...
Reforming the Tourney, Part 1 - Champs Only?
It's been a busy post-Final Four week for me, thanks to a visit from one of my friends from my undergrad days at UF. I'll be back posting more regularly on the college hoops topics of the day on Monday. In the meantime, I'd like to make the first post in what's going to be a series here on...
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