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Belmont at-large consideration?

speaking of at-large
Iowa just lost again today, they've now lost 6 of their last 8... including they just lost to last place Penn State.

they are 10-10 in conference and in 9th place, way closer to last place than the top...
Their non-conference Strength of Schedule is 303, and yet all the commentators nod & agree
that they are a lock for an at-large bid - go figure......
 
yoda said:
speaking of at-large
Iowa just lost again today, they've now lost 6 of their last 8... including they just lost to last place Penn State.

they are 10-10 in conference and in 9th place, way closer to last place than the top...
Their non-conference Strength of Schedule is 303, and yet all the commentators nod & agree
that they are a lock for an at-large bid - go figure......
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10-10 is pretty good. Some teams go dancing with losing records in their conferences.
 
64NIT said:
10-10 is pretty good. Some teams go dancing with losing records in their conferences.
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Simply because they are in the Big 10. I would rather have AI make the selections based purely on stats then most of the selection committee that are biased.Net is an F ing joke. The criteria should be you need a winning record in your conference in order to get an at large bid.
 
tomahawk chop said:
Simply because they are in the Big 10. I would rather have AI make the selections based purely on stats then most of the selection committee that are biased.Net is an F ing joke. The criteria should be you need a winning record in your conference in order to get an at large bid.
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I have said this for years and totally agree tc. If your record in the conference is .500 or below and you don't win your conference tourney... you should not qualify. I don't care what the conference is.
 
someone posted that in the last 2 decades, more than a dozen midmajors have reached the Final Four...
(and that's despite the massive discrimination & bias they face in selection & seeding)
whereas not one single P-5 confeence team that was 6th, 7th or beyond had ever made it to the Final Four...

That speaks volumes that the midmajors deserve MORE consideration and the also-rans in the P-5 conferences deserve LESS
 
At one point the winner of the conference season got an auto bid to the NIT if they didn't win the tourney. If so, Belmont would get in. Isn't that what happened to BU 3 yrs ago?
 
In 2023, the NIT removed the auto bid for conference champions that didn't win their tournaments. But then, after some criticism, mostly from midmajors, they reinstated it in 2025.
"For the 2025 NIT, exempt bids would be given to two teams from both the ACC and SEC, plus one team each from the top twelve conferences as rated by KenPom. Additionally, automatic bids will be given to regular-season conference champions with an average ranking of 125 or better across the BPI, KPI, NET, KenPom, SOR, Torvik and WAB rankings."
 
Braves2006 said:
I have said this for years and totally agree tc. If your record in the conference is .500 or below and you don't win your conference tourney... you should not qualify. I don't care what the conference is.
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I agree. If they complain about the conference set up tell them to change conferences
 
Braves2006 said:
I have said this for years and totally agree tc. If your record in the conference is .500 or below and you don't win your conference tourney... you should not qualify. I don't care what the conference is.
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AMEN (x10)! I mean, at minimum .500 conf. record, though I think it would be much easier to pick the NCAA-worthy teams if you need to be Over .500, but that would leave the door open for some strong mid majors, and we just can't have THAT!!
 
Here is Stanford head coach Kyle Smith moaning and griping because he's afraid his team might not get an NCAA bid after being eliminated in the first round of the ACC Tournament. They finished the regular season 9-9 and as the #10 seed and were just beaten and eliminated by the #15 seed, Pitt. He thinks they deserve a bid because, "We have one of the best players in the country".
www.x.com/TheFieldOf68/status/2031517799101686070
 
watching Big Ten Tourney- Indiana loses to Northwesten in early round of Big Ten Tourney, they are 9-11
10th place in the Big Ten, 3-11 in Quad-1, non-conference SOS of 237, and they lost 6 of their last 7...and yet
still being discussed as a bubble team!!!
Anyway, if Indiana does get left out of the NCAA Tourney, it couldn't happen to a bunch of nicer ex-MVC guys.
 
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