My perfect world NCAA Tournament.
Top 8 rated leagues based on prior three seasons ratings their regular season champ is pre-assigned to a sub-regional (ie Big East champions to Providence, ACC to Raleigh, SEC to Lexington, B12 to Wichita etc. Tournament champions also get auto bid. Regular season champs still want to win for seeding.
Next 8 rated leagues auto bid for regular season champs and tournament champs.
Now bottom 8 leagues, no more first four for them. Pair up two leagues based on geography for four “NCAA District Tournaments”. Teams with 2 best conference records in each conference makes the district tournament. Then pick 2 at-large from what’s left based on NET for a total of six teams. Each regular season champ gets a bye. Winner of the tournament gets auto bid but no First Four.
Change First Four to the 8 lowest at-large selections.
I think the NCAA could sell the District tournaments for more money than these leagues make off tv for their conference tournaments.
I learned long ago that when you are in an event where someone else gets the gate, announced attendance usually drops (major exception Arkansas at Arkansas in WNIT).
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