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177749.5 in reply to 177749.4
Date: 3/20/2011 8:01:38 PM
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Basically, the 30 or so conference champions (from the Big East, PAC-10, ACC down to the smaller conferences) plus 30 plus at-large teams play in a 64-team single elimination tournament for the college basketball national championship. More recently, they've added additional teams...now there are 68 teams and 4 early games/play-in games.

The tournament takes 3 weeks, with each team playing 2 games a week until they are eliminated. Some of the later rounds have names like the Sweet-16, Great-8, Final Four etc.



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Date: 3/20/2011 9:12:57 PM
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There are conference regular season games and a conference tournament, but the NCAA seedings are independent of conference.

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Date: 3/21/2011 1:05:16 PM
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The seeding is by committee...although they use some called the RPI too do a lot of the work: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html


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The seeding is by committee...although they use some called the RPI too do a lot of the work: http://www.realtimerpi.com/rpi_Men.html


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Date: 3/23/2011 4:51:13 PM
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I'd say a special player to watch is Jared Sullinger he is only a freshman and is great. A game to watch is probably Connecticut at San Diego State.

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Date: 3/23/2011 4:59:19 PM
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I'd say a special player to watch is Jared Sullinger he is only a freshman and is great. A game to watch is probably Connecticut at San Diego State.


Yeah...State is a good team, but need to prove they are a contender by beating somebody like UConn.

The Big East got 11 teams in the tournament, but only two remain. Not exactly a great argument for being the #1 conference. (Mountain West still has SD State & BYU).





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Date: 3/23/2011 5:01:51 PM
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I had the Big East going far which completely screwed up my bracket. For example St. Johns in the Elite 8. Nearly all my Elite eight teams are out new record. :)

Last edited by Mike Rice at 3/23/2011 5:02:05 PM

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