At-Large Mid-Major Bids (or lack of)

[PDGL Hoops]

Interesting article proposing scheduling agreements between leagues and avoiding one and done guaranteed games against Power 5 schools. Moving to the A-10 was a good move for us....

https://pilotonline.com/sports/coll...cle_a5ea9b2c-f19b-5ead-9a75-b3f56cbb7327.html

 

[Quentin Daniels]

Great article.

Would love to see the A-10 enter a pre-season challenge tournament against the AAC like the Big10/ACC & SEC/Big12 do.

At the top, it'd be Rhode Island/Cincinnati and St. Bonnie/Wichita State.

Our tenth place pick would match us up against Tulane.

 

[GMUgemini]

Interesting article proposing scheduling agreements between leagues and avoiding one and done guaranteed games against Power 5 schools. Moving to the A-10 was a good move for us....

https://pilotonline.com/sports/coll...cle_a5ea9b2c-f19b-5ead-9a75-b3f56cbb7327.html

The lack of mid-major at-large bids probably also has something to do with Major conference expansion sucking in schools like Colorado, Utah, Creighton, Butler, and Xavier thereby weakening conferences like the Mountain West, and Missouri Valley (and the CAA if you count vcu and GMU leaving to join the A-10).

But it's also hard to define what a mid-major conference is in basketball. With schools like Wichita State, Memphis, UConn, Cincinnati, and Temple could you really call the AAC a mid-major, for instance? The same thing with the A-10 (and I'm pretty sure the reasoning behind the A-10 refusing to participate in Bracketbusters when they were around is they didn't want to be classified as mid-majors).

But I agree in principle that good non-P5 teams should be playing more home-and-homes together.

 

[GSII]

We were doing this too with the Cuban. Remember witchia state games and bracketbusters. Theres a reason brackbusters is gone. The bigs dont wanna share. But they still need non conf games and they will still get there guarantee games from hampton, kent state etc.