Nevermind the economy, wars or the icecaps, the world's most urgent problem has been solved — college basketball's postseason is expanding. Again.
Move over NCAA Tournament, NIT and CBI (you know, the College Basketball Invitational), here comes the ... well ... it doesn't have a name yet.
CollegeInsider.com will stage a legitimate postseason tournament, approved by the NCAA and the college coaches, according to CBS Sports, that gives another 16 teams a chance to dance in March.
Eligible teams have to have a winning record against Division I opponents and priority will be given to the other (read: minor, non-major, non-BCS) conferences.
If the tournament is half as busy as the sponsor's web site, it will be a huge success, or at least induce a bout of vertigo.
That brings the postseason total to 129 teams. Surely there's another aspiring web site out there to mollify the other 200 teams. Please, someone save the children and hungry coaches.
Comments
A winning record against D1 teams
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 18:28 — awoo1979Guess that counts NCSU out. Don't worry spring football practice is right around the corner.
i have no prob. w/ it.
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 15:08 — JPMajorI have no problem with this. I love to watch college basketball and the more the better. The fans of the teams that get invited to these lower class tourney's have to like it also. Countless numbers of teams have good winning records and fail to have a postseason chance.
180
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 13:45 — tarheelfanblogThere were approx 180 teams with a .500 record or better in DI basketball last season.
That means....
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 14:53 — JPDOhioIf JP's math is correct, we have room for 3 more tourneys and each can have a play-in game. Sweet! Good thing there are enough cable channels to cover them all.
I haven't done the math...
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 11:33 — JPDOhioand I won't, but it seems like there may not be enough teams with winning records to fill all the slots. And they say the college bowl system is screwy?