College Basketball 2026-27 Season Thread

So theoretically UNC could give up home games in order to get exclusive media rights to neutral site games? Aggressive use of neutral site games could frustrate media rights agreements with conferences and media partners.
 
Calheel said:
So theoretically UNC could give up home games in order to get exclusive media rights to neutral site games? Aggressive use of neutral site games could frustrate media rights agreements with conferences and media partners.
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This is what I was thinking. Apparently dook worked with ESPN and the ACC, who owns their media rights, but if this isn't additive to the overall pot of money going to ACC teams I would think an FSU or Clemson would use it to challenge the GOR. But I'm no attorney. Of course we are getting closer to the end of the GOR every day . . .
 
Enigma94 said:
This is what I was thinking. Apparently dook worked with ESPN and the ACC, who owns their media rights, but if this isn't additive to the overall pot of money going to ACC teams I would think an FSU or Clemson would use it to challenge the GOR. But I'm no attorney. Of course we are getting closer to the end of the GOR every day . . .
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Honestly whatever just ends it at this point. The ACC has done a horrible job at managing itself. Let's just get to the end and figure out the result
 
Bigs23 said:
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Right now there is basically a mini tournament of 8 teams for the final 4 spots in the field of 64.

The proposal is to make a mini tournament of 24 teams for the final 12 spots. Hence, going from the current four games in Dayton to a total of 12 games, likely all around the country or on the courts of the higher seeded teams.
 
Calheel said:
Right now there is basically a mini tournament of 8 teams for the final 4 spots in the field of 64.

The proposal is to make a mini tournament of 24 teams for the final 12 spots. Hence, going from the current four games in Dayton to a total of 12 games, likely all around the country or on the courts of the higher seeded teams.
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Oh, I thought they were just adding 8 more teams/4 more games to the play-in format for a total of 76.
 
I have a proposal.

Get rid of the conference tournaments. Use that weekend for the first two rounds of a 256 team tournament. After the first Thursday/Friday there will be 128 teams left and at the end of that first weekend you will have 64 teams left standing and the normal tournament schedule will commence over the next three weekends like it's been since 1985.

The drama will be who is the 257th team which got screwed. I will grant you the selection show will be longer than the NFL draft but this will assure a lot more mid-majors of getting into the event. A P5 school would have to be REALLY bad not to make this field.
 
farce© said:
I have a proposal.

Get rid of the conference tournaments. Use that weekend for the first two rounds of a 256 team tournament. After the first Thursday/Friday there will be 128 teams left and at the end of that first weekend you will have 64 teams left standing and the normal tournament schedule will commence over the next three weekends like it's been since 1985.

The drama will be who is the 257th team which got screwed. I will grant you the selection show will be longer than the NFL draft but this will assure a lot more mid-majors of getting into the event. A P5 school would have to be REALLY bad not to make this field.
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Even better is just have the bigger schools leave the NCAA and form their own league with 64 schools and 8 regions of 8 teams. Get rid of conference tournaments because there wouldn't be any conferences. Everyone would be under one umbrella like the NBA and NFL. All the teams are in the tournament at the end so there is no bitching about teams getting left out. The only question would be seeding. Each team plays the teams in their region twice for basketball during the regular season and some other teams in the other regions for a 30 game regular season. Would be better for football, too. Play each team in your region once and 5 or 6 other teams from other regions for the regular season. Then do the playoffs like the NFL does with wild card games and the like.
 
uncsig said:
Already been answered. But while only adding 8, they are going to have 24 teams play 12 games to join 52 who will be in the main bracket already.
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So 12 play in games instead of 4. Got it.

12 fewer teams go straight to the Field of 64.
 
farce© said:
I have a proposal.

Get rid of the conference tournaments. Use that weekend for the first two rounds of a 256 team tournament. After the first Thursday/Friday there will be 128 teams left and at the end of that first weekend you will have 64 teams left standing and the normal tournament schedule will commence over the next three weekends like it's been since 1985.

The drama will be who is the 257th team which got screwed. I will grant you the selection show will be longer than the NFL draft but this will assure a lot more mid-majors of getting into the event. A P5 school would have to be REALLY bad not to make this field.
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This will cost Joey Brackets his job.
 
nycfan said:


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SMH at the ACC Commissioner. I wonder if the SEC and Big Ten will follow suit and allow their teams to schedule their highest profile games as a side deal outside the conference media contract.

I also wonder who at ESPN made this decision, seems quite stupid on their behalf.
 
1moretimeagain said:
SMH at the ACC Commissioner. I wonder if the SEC and Big Ten will follow suit and allow their teams to schedule their highest profile games as a side deal outside the conference media contract.

I also wonder who at ESPN made this decision, seems quite stupid on their behalf.
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Apparently, Duke agreed to play in some ESPN owned tournaments to buy peace.
 
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