Let me get this straight. A team like Miami Ohio can go undefeated during the regular season, lose in the Conference Quarterfinals and only be an 11 seed in the tournament?
Where is the line? What if next year it's Vermont or Arkansas Pine Bluff. Will they get the same treatment?
The two bid league feels officially dead. I feel bad for Belmont who played a harder schedule in a basketball focused conference and didn't get mentioned through out all of Champ Week because they weren't undefeated. Seems criminal.
I'll admit that I'm in the a different side of the conversation. I think Miami Ohio deserved a 4 seed. If not, than two thirds of the NCAA is eliminated from a 1 seed just because teams refuse to play them.
We are getting to a stage where the top 60 programs won't schedule anyone out of the the Top 60. At what point do we see a 17-15 team get in because they are in the SEC. There are good teams outside the top 6 conferences. Florida Atlantic made the Final 4 with a Net Ranking of 13 in 2023 and were giving a 9 seed. I don't think the seeding process is quite accurate. I don't even know what all the metrics really mean.
Stephan F Austin went 28-3 during 2020. They beat Duke in Duke. If March Madness happened in 2020 Duke would have been a #1 seed. SFA an 11.
Please make this make sense. Let's start seeding teams by record if this is what is going to happen. Maybe that will get the big boys playing fair with the underdogs.
Right now, the system feels ruined.
