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 "Op...
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...
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 se...
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 worr...
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 opposi...
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 th...
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...
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