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Topic: Barnhart: Seeding needs to be more transparent and standarized
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catmandoo
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posted 03-14-2016 10:01 PM
Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart wrote the following letter on the NCAA Tournament selection process on Monday.
“Our NCAA Tournament draw has, suffice to say, been quite the topic of conversation over the last 24 hours. On that subject, I agree with and fully support our coach.
“Rather than breaking down brackets and making our case, I believe it’s more productive to look ahead. In short, I believe the process of selecting NCAA Tournament teams must be both more transparent and more standardized. The Selection Committee has made progress by revealing the S Curve after the bracket is announced, but it should consider following the lead of the College Football Playoff Committee and release updates prior to Selection Sunday.
“Even more importantly, the criteria used must be specifically outlined and prioritized, consistently applied, and clearly communicated. This would eliminate all doubt about what coaches must do in scheduling and what teams must do during the season to reach the tournament.
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SCWC
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posted 03-15-2016 06:05 AM
Hopefully more AD's will come out against the way they currently select the teams behind closed doors using conference politics. I am very happy to see Barnhart speak out on this. There is no reason they could not do like the football BCS system does, release your top 16 seeds about 4 weeks prior to the final pairings and change them weekly as teams win and lose and go up and down seedings wise. Plus there should be a standard criteria that every team knows will be used. I think they have used three different criterias over the last three years and many basketball fans are losing faith in their current process. Not only Kentucky fans feel this way.
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boomdaddy
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posted 03-15-2016 07:30 AM
The big 5 conferences need to leave the NCAA and start their own organization. The NCAA keeps way too much of the profits and the member schools don't benefit.
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SCWC
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posted 03-15-2016 07:55 AM
I think it will eventually happen for football but wonder about basketball. Hopefully the big five conferences leave the NCAA and start their own organization to run their tournaments, let the NCAA sink with their little schools. They could not afford their overhead without the big five conferences and they know it.
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ProBlue
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posted 03-15-2016 07:56 AM
boomdaddy maybe 5 of them I don't think ACC would like to leave like duke and NC they generally get the gravy ever year.
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