Sunbelt Conference Tournament bracket
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For low/mid major conferences I actually like it. The regular season should be heavily weighed over the 4-5 day tournament. This gives the conference's best team 1 game to refresh, shake the rust of the break off, and then win just 2 games to make the NCAAT they worked really hard to make. One weekend tournament shouldn't undo 2-2.5 months of conference play.
Will one of those 2 best teams always make good on this advantage? No, but they earned that advantage.
Will one of those 2 best teams always make good on this advantage? No, but they earned that advantage.
Was a 4 way tie for first place the difference for the 3rd/4th place tiebreaker teams got them an extra game.
That is what it sucks.
Arkansas State is probably the best team (they won at Memphis) and the tie breaker got them the 4th seed and the extra game and a semi-finals vs what is likely the 2nd best team #1 seed South Alabama who they lost to twice which is why they got the 4th seed.
That is what it sucks.
Arkansas State is probably the best team (they won at Memphis) and the tie breaker got them the 4th seed and the extra game and a semi-finals vs what is likely the 2nd best team #1 seed South Alabama who they lost to twice which is why they got the 4th seed.
Imagine having to win 7 games in 7 days to make the big dance.
Sucks, but a the same time.....don't want to have to do that? Win your regular season games.
Now, this bracket is overkill however. Dear Sunbelt.....do better.
So what arena wants to host this for a week? Lol seems like that's more trouble than it's worth.
For lower conferences I like it from the standpoint of getting the best team in.
For lower conferences I like it from the standpoint of getting the best team in.
Great for small conferences who want the best school to go. Terrible idea for bigger conferences that want to replicate the NCAA tourney or make money.
I don't mind 1 and 2 getting a head start. Especially conference of that level. But no reason that 5 and 6 get a triple bye. They should've flattened out some of that. My guess motivation is more to provide ESPN with more night games than "fairness".
SEC is doing it right for P5.
SEC is doing it right for P5.
I've always felt small conferences should just send their regular season champ but I guess they make too much $ from a tournament. I have no problems with the Sun Belt going with this format. If you are a low ranked team you basically have to do Mortal Kombat to win.
There's not a chance in hell those teams without a bunch of byes is making it through this thing.
They could have just limited the number of teams in the conference tournament to the top four or so if they wanted to go this route lol.
They could have just limited the number of teams in the conference tournament to the top four or so if they wanted to go this route lol.
I wonder about that because I always watch the championship games of these things and for the most part, very little people in attendance
Honestly, the autobid team SHOULD be the winner of the regular season championship.
That's a truer reflection on who the best team is in conference instead of some one and done tournament.
That being said, I understand why we have conference tournaments.
That's a truer reflection on who the best team is in conference instead of some one and done tournament.
That being said, I understand why we have conference tournaments.
