What if there were a D1A and D1AA in BBall?

So you have the FB confs in D1A but include the Sun Belt and BE BBall onlies to get to 131 teams. You can then have a 48 team NCAAT. Would that be a good thing? By doing that you eliminate the little guy, and upsets are fun and exciting. But upsets make it easier for the next team they play. Also having a D1A and D1AA, you will get more talent per team. In BBall one guy can make a difference. You can go anywhere you want. However if you split D1A and D1AA would a kid who is choosing between being a career 6th man at SU or a starter for Hofstra pick Hofstra if they are D1AA? Having a split may very well add depth to every D1A team and make games even better.

Edit
I forgot to add that every teams reg season sched would be a lot harder. No more cupcake games. In this case confs would likely play more conf games. The B11 would likely go from 18 to 20. The ACC, SEC, and B12 from 16 to 22. The BE from 18 to 22. The P10 would remain at 18. Even so teams would have to fit in about 10 more OOC games and there are only 131 D1A teams to choose from. So we should see a lot more games between the Big 6 confs.


I made a bracket based on this year. I tried to keep the seedings as close to possible but had to move some teams to different regions to fill in holes. There are 43 D1A teams in this year NCAAT. However I only used 42 of them since both Temple and Akron wouldnt have gotten at larges. Only would could be the MAC champ. I then took the 6 highest seeded NIT teams to fill it in. So here is what it would look like:

	East	South	MW	West
1	Pitt	UNC	UL	Uconn
2	Duke	OU	MSU	Memphis
3	Nova	SU	KU	Missou
4	Wake	Utah	FSU	Wash
5	UCLA	WV	Illinois	Purdue
6	Texas	ASU	BC	Marq
7	LSU	Clemson	Cal	BYU
8	A&M	OSU	Tenn	Okie St
9	Mich	Temple	USC	MD
10	Minn	Wisc	WKU	Utah St
11	Zona	SD St	Fla	Auburn
12	Miss St	PSU	ND	Va Tech

So the Top 4 seeds get 1st round byes. The rest would play as follows:

UCLA/Miss St	WV/PSU	Illinois/ND	Purdue/Va Tech
Texas/Zona	ASU/SD St	BC/Fla	Marq/Auburn
LSU/Minn	Clemson/Wic	Cal/WKU	BYU/Utah St
A&M/Mich	OSU/Temple	Tenn/USC	Okie St/MD

The the potential 2nd round games of:

Pitt/A&M	UNC/OSU	UL/Tenn	Uconn/Okie St
Duke/LSU	OU/Clemson	MSU/Cal	Memphis/BYU
Nova/Texas	SU/ASU	KU/BC	Missou/Marq
Wake/UCLA	Utah/WV	FSU/Illinois	Wash/Purdue

So would this be bad or good for CBBall?

Evaluating the Bracket guys

Getting the number of teams in is easy. Usually the last 3 in or out is all that needs to be chosen. So a monkey should get 62 of 65 each year. What you really are doing is picking 3 of 6 teams to make the field. Not very hard. What is hard is the seeding. Well I posted my bracket earlier, my friend Cuseman made a bracket and we compared to Lunardi and Palm. We awarded 3 points for a correct pick and negative 1 for each seed missed. So if you picked SU as a 3 seed you get 3 points. If you picked SU as a 4 seed you get -1 point. And the winner was....

Palm 52 points
Lunardi 34 points
Cuseman 19 points
King Otto 0 points

Everyone had 64 of 65 teams missing on Zona. King Otto and Cuseman had SD St. Palm St Marys. And Lunardi Creighton. Cuseman put his together from scratch from 5pm to 6pm right before the brackets came. I have made a few brackets the last few weeks. But it isnt my job and I never went into the depth that the "pros" do. Palm beat up on Lunardi. I think we should all stop following the fraud Lunardi and use Palm from now on.

Final Bracket

East
1 Pitt
16 Chattanooga/Bama St

8 A&M
9 Miss St

4 OSU/Purdue winner
13 WKU

5 Utah
12 MD

2 Duke
15 Robert Morris

7 Gonzaga
10 Michigan

3 KU
14 Cornell

6 UCLA
11 Temple

South
1 UNC
16 Morehead St

8 LSU
9 Butler

4 SU
13 Binghamton

5 ASU
12 Siena

2 MSU
15 E Tenn St

7 Clemson
10 Cal

3 Nova
14 Stephen F Austin

6 Okie St
11 Minn

Midwest
1 UL
16 Morgan St

8 Texas
9 BYU

4 Wash
13 American

5 Illinois
12 Cle St

2 OU
15 Radford

7 Xavier
10 BC

3 Wake
14 Akron

6 Tenn
11 Wisc

West
1 Memphis
16 CS Northridge

8 Marq
9 Dayton

4 FSU
13 VCU

5 WV
12 SD St

2 UConn
15 Portland St

7 USC
10 Utah St

3 Missou
14 ND St

6 OSU/Purdue loser
11 No Iowa


Last Six Teams In (last in first)
SD St
MD
Wisc
Minn
BC
Mich

Last Six Out
Zona
St Marys
Creighton
Auburn
Florida
South Carolina

Multi Bid Confs
7 ACC, BE, B11
6 B12
5 P10
3 A10, SEC, MWC
2 Horizon

NCAA Projections

Finding 65 teams is pretty easy this year. But the seedings will be hard.

1	Pittsburgh	North Carolina	Oklahoma	Memphis
16	Morehead St./ Alabama St.	Radford	Morgan St.	CSU Northridge
8	Texas A&M	Brigham Young	LSU	Marquette
9	Ohio St.	Texas	California	Wisconsin
4	UCLA	Tennessee	Syracuse	Missouri
13	American U.	VA Commonwealth	Northern Iowa	Stephen F. Austin
5	Clemson	Illinois	Florida St.	Utah
12	Siena	West. Kentucky	San Diego St.	Maryland
2	Duke	Louisville	Michigan St.	Connecticut
15	Cornell	Charleston	Robert Morris	E. Tennessee St.
7	Dayton	Arizona St.	Gonzaga	Purdue
10	Minnesota	Boston College	South Carolina	Utah St.
3	Villanova	Kansas	Wake Forest	Washington
14	Binghamton	Buffalo	North Dakota St	Weber St.
6	Oklahoma St.	Xavier	West Virginia	Butler
11	Florida	Michigan	Arizona	St. Mary's

By Conf

BE	7
ACC	7
B11	7
B12	6
P10	5
SEC	4
MWC	3
WCC	2
A10	2

Last 6 in (starting with last one in)

Maryland

San Diego St

St Marys

Arizona

Florida

Michigan

Last 12 out

UAB

Creighton

New Mexico

UNLV

USC

Temple

Illinois St.

Davidson

Miami (FL)

Penn St.

Virginia Tech

Northwestern

NCAA Projections

Here is my prediction of the brackets

	East	South	Midwest	West
1	Pittsburgh	North Carolina	Oklahoma	Connecticut
16	Morgan St./Alabama St	Long Beach St.	Tenn-Martin	Virginia Military
8	Oklahoma St.	Texas	Wisconsin	California
9	Dayton	Arizona St.	Utah St.	Texas A&M
4	Utah	Missouri	Villanova	Clemson
13	Miami (OH)	West. Kentucky	George Mason	Davidson
5	Illinois	Xavier	Florida St.	Purdue
12	St. Mary's	Georgetown	UAB	Siena
2	Duke	Michigan St.	Memphis	Kansas
15	Cornell	Robert Morris	North Dakota St	Belmont
7	West Virginia	Gonzaga	Marquette	Brigham Young
10	Creighton	South Carolina	Minnesota	Ohio St.
3	Tennessee	Louisville	Wake Forest	Washington
14	American U.	Stephen F. Austin	Vermont	Weber St.
6	UCLA	LSU	Butler	Syracuse
11	Maryland	Arizona	Florida	Boston College

Last 10 Out

UNLV

Rhode Island

Kentucky

Cincinnati

Miami (FL)

Virginia Tech

USC

Providence

Michigan

Penn St.

By Conf
BE 8
ACC 7
B11 6
B12 6
P10 5
SEC 4