Frank Burlison reported this in the LBPT the other day
"Big West Conference commissioner Dennis Farrell said Monday that the men's and women's basketball head coaches recommended in their spring
meeting last week that the Big West Tournament be expanded to include all nine teams. In the current format, the ninth-place finisher stays home. If the
coaches have their way, next March the eighth and ninth finishers would play on Tuesday night, with the winner taking on the No.5 seed the next day, when the
Nos. 6 and 7 seeds would also play. The Wednesday winners would play the Nos. 3 and 4 seeds on Thursday, with those survivors taking on the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds
on Friday. The championship - and NCAA tourney bid-deciding - game will be Saturday. The conference holds its Council meetings (with three representatives from
each institution, two of those holding votes) May 4-6, with the Board of Directors (presidents) meeting on May 11. Simple voting majorities of each of those
groups are needed for the "8 vs. 9 games" to be ratified. "And I really don't have any idea (how the voting will go)," Farrell said.
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I'm trying to have a strong feeling one way or another about this, but since we already have 8 teams there, my feeling is "whatever".
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TitanCzar |
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for the regular season champ to host the BWT.
Limit both BWT to four teams each. For the women, start the BWT on Wed 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3. Then the championship game on Thr. For the men, start the BWT on Fri, then the championship on Sat. But there is no way in hell coaches would go for this, they need to CYA.
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Toteda |
The WAC | #22 | ||
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has only the top 6 teams in their tournament. Why we want to go to nine is beyond me.
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Posts: 2895 05/01/09 10:39 AM |
Not true, the WAC has all nine schools in the tourney.
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Posts: 515 05/05/09 6:39 AM Moderator |
Keep the eight team format and host the tourney in Vegas...I think its the WCC which did that this year (it was one of the west coast mind major conferences).
The Mountain West did too, but they have teams in Nevada so that wasn't a surprise. I think hosting the tourney in Vegas would bring in some great crowds.
Heck I'd make sure to attend the tourney every year no matter where CSUN was seeded.
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WAC Tourny will be held in Vegas... | #25 | ||
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ydnorthridge wrote: Starting 2010-2011 season. It's about time! |
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