John argues against a 16 team NCAA (in part) as follows:
 
> An expanded brackett only puts less importance on
the regular season.
> the conference quarterfinals would become the big
games.
 
I disagree. The regular season would become THE gatekeeping mechanism for the
NCAAs. If the 4 and 5 seeds were so close that the QF between them would be
meaningful, then they would probably both go, or neither go. (There's no assumption
that 4 teams from each conference would go every season.)
 
My eastern teams under a 16 system for '93: the current 5 plus RPI. (I don't think Yale
would have made it anyway.) That leaves 10 western seeds - I don't know enough
about the west to judge.
 
Anyway, nothing will change until the NCAA expands its basketball tourny.
 
Greg
Somerville
Let's Go Red!