College Basketball 2026-27 Season Thread

dukeman92 said:
While more basketball is rarely a bad thing, this move effectively kills the bubble drama as we know it.

We're trading the high stakes anxiety of Selection Sunday for the safety net of participation trophies.

This move is about one thing and one thing only. Money. It doesn’t make the tournament better to include a bunch of 16-15 P5 teams.
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It doesn't kill bubble drama. It just moves it one rung down the ladder. You'll still get the same drama.
 
dukeman92 said:
While more basketball is rarely a bad thing, this move effectively kills the bubble drama as we know it.

We're trading the high stakes anxiety of Selection Sunday for the safety net of participation trophies.

This move is about one thing and one thing only. Money. It doesn’t make the tournament better to include a bunch of 16-15 P5 teams.
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Everything is About money, that's why my job sucks donkey dicks.
 
BillOfRights said:
There are currently over five thousand six hundred regular season games. I don't see how adding four tournament games impacts the regular season in any significant way.
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It just makes it that much easier to get in the tournament, which further reduces the importance of any individual regular season game.

For example, in 2022, we had to beat Syracuse in OT at home to put us in a good position to make the tournament. Lose that game and we’d have to beat K in his last game to get into the tourney (which we fortunately did anyway). If the tournament were 76 teams, that Syracuse game would be largely meaningless.
 
BillOfRights said:
It doesn't kill bubble drama. It just moves it one rung down the ladder. You'll still get the same drama.
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It kills bubble drama as we know it.

Very important caveat on the end of that sentence. Yes, there will still be a bubble and plenty of discussion for which 16-15 team gets a participation trophy, but it will hardly be as suspenseful or exciting.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I haven’t yet read the details m, but I guess this means we will have a first round of 24 teams playing 12 games to be the 53rd-64th teams to go on to play on either Thursday or Friday.
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That would be sensible
But to get viewers these borderline schools will be matched up with 12 seeds etc first round
That is what the "play in games" are today
 
Heelsandeers said:
The next 8 teams are going to be pretty bad

What teams would’ve been on that 76 team bubble last season?
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When the tournament was expanded to 64 teams in 1985, there were 306 division 1 men's basketball teams. 21% of teams made the tournament. This past season, there were 365 men men's basketball teams. With a 78 team tournament, 21% of teams will get in next year.

The 68th best team is not significantly different from the 64th best team. The 78th best team is not significantly different from the 68th best team.
 
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