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How do 48 team tournaments work? - edinburger - 09-18-2020 10:18 AM
Read that all the Fall sports delayed to Spring will have 48 team tournaments, usually 32 autobids and 16 at large.
How does it work? Do 16 teams get a bye (or equivalently, 32 teams have to do a play-in round)? Or do they go 48-24-12-6-3 and then do some kind of round robin at the end?
RE: How do 48 team tournaments work? - LUSportsFan - 09-18-2020 12:33 PM
(09-18-2020 10:18 AM)edinburger Wrote: Read that all the Fall sports delayed to Spring will have 48 team tournaments, usually 32 autobids and 16 at large.
How does it work? Do 16 teams get a bye (or equivalently, 32 teams have to do a play-in round)? Or do they go 48-24-12-6-3 and then do some kind of round robin at the end?
Good question. Looks like it was 32 teams in the first round back in the "good ole days".
Link - 1980 NCAA Division I Tournament Wikipedia page.
RE: How do 48 team tournaments work? - RobtheAggie - 09-18-2020 01:02 PM
Men's DI soccer does a 48 team tournament.
https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/print/soccer-men/d1/2019