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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
What if Dayton is one of last four in?
I like what the NCAA is doing in making some of the at-large teams play their way into the NCAA tournament. I didn’t think it would be fair to have champions from the lower-ranked conferences have to fill all eight of those spots in the “First Four” games, as the NCAA is calling them.
I also hope Dayton is awarded the at-large games in addition to the match-ups of the 16 and 17 seeds, but my fear is the selection committee will say, “We know those Arkansas Pine-Bluff games will sell at UD Arena, let’s give them both of those and send the at-large teams elsewhere.”
I think UD’s track record the last 10 years with the play-in game should be noted and a tradition that started with the tourney kicking off here should continue.
That said, it could create an interesting twist if the four games do come to Dayton and the Flyers are one of the last four in. Do they get a home game out of the deal? I’d imagine the selection committee would do its best to keep the Flyers out of that last-four-in category in that instance, but that’s a dilemma that would have to be addressed.
The Flyers very well could be in that situation in any given season. CBS Sportsline did a mock bracket from last year using the new tourney format and actually had the Flyers as one of the last four in.
You’d think the members of the selection committee have a contingency plan. But wouldn’t it be great if they didn’t?
