Let's face it there are not enough quality programs to justify a 64 team bracket. The blow outs by UCONN, Baylor, and Duke yesterday reinforce that belief. If you disregard the 8/9 match ups there are only two instances of a higher seed beating a lower, that's 28 games, the lower seed was 26-2. It's time to contract the tournament to 48 teams, give the top 4 in each region a bye to the second round. Keep the auto-bids, and lose 16 at-large slots.

Without looking it up, aren't most of the blowouts involving auto bids?

Yes, but under a new system these schools wouldn't play teams like UCONN. I'm not even saying they would win their first round games, but the games would be more exciting. Do you honestly think Texas Southern felt good after getting blown out by 89 by Baylor, there was no positive there. Those two teams didn't even belong on the same court.

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(03-19-2017 07:59 AM)PirateJP Wrote:  Yes, but under a new system these schools wouldn't play teams like UCONN. I'm not even saying they would win their first round games, but the games would be more exciting. Do you honestly think Texas Southern felt good after getting blown out by 89 by Baylor, there was no positive there. Those two teams didn't even belong on the same court.

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Baylor didn't even let up in the 4th quarter, outscoring TSU 26-6 in the final frame. Not even the Baylor women's basketball team has enough respect for women to stop when they should.

Baylor clearly was gunning for the all time record. Their twitter feed after the game acted as if raping and then punching a poor HBCU making their first ever tournament appearance in the face was some sort of accomplishment to be proud of.

I hope the Feds go back to Waco and burn the right compound down this time. Baylor is scum.

to answer the OP...no

mainly because nobody cares

The simple answer is that the scholarship limit needs to be dropped to 13 like the men's side. Imagine the disparity in the men's side if Duke, UK, KU, UNC, etc could hoard 2 extra scholarships. It wouldn't be as drastic as what the women's game has turned into but the trickle down effect would be ugly.

(03-20-2017 12:17 PM)Shox Wrote:  The simple answer is that the scholarship limit needs to be dropped to 13 like the men's side. Imagine the disparity in the men's side if Duke, UK, KU, UNC, etc could hoard 2 extra scholarships. It wouldn't be as drastic as what the women's game has turned into but the trickle down effect would be ugly.

I would lower the Women's limit to 10. There just aren't enough quality women's players to justify the higher limits. Unlike men's where there are enough good players to get to smaller programs.

The simple answer is that the scholarship limit needs to be dropped to 13 like the men's side. Imagine the disparity in the men's side if Duke, UK, KU, UNC, etc could hoard 2 extra scholarships. It wouldn't be as drastic as what the women's game has turned into but the trickle down effect would be ugly.

why would it contract when its making money as is? Gives more student athletes a chance to play in a big time game. Has a 16 seed ever beat a 1 seed in mens bball? No but it recently expanded rather than contracting those seeds.

(03-20-2017 12:36 PM)Shox Wrote:  The simple answer is that the scholarship limit needs to be dropped to 13 like the men's side. Imagine the disparity in the men's side if Duke, UK, KU, UNC, etc could hoard 2 extra scholarships. It wouldn't be as drastic as what the women's game has turned into but the trickle down effect would be ugly.

You may be on to something here, but I'm sure the number is 15 due to title IX.

I saw on ESPN a week ago that Geno doesn't fill the 15 scholarships, he only has 12 scholarship players because he believes 15 scholarship players ruins team chemistry.

They either need to cap scholarships lower (as if that'll change much, the best handful of players would still end up at the best programs) or not require an auto-bid for the NCAA Tournament and create a private special tournament for the elite of the elite. That would seem to change little, so just leave it as is.