A record 14 of 16 teams from the SEC made the NCAA tournament...

[ttowncoug]

...seems very TV biased if you ask me. Network knows the SEC fans will watch these games.

March Madness 2025: SEC sets record with 14 of 16 teams in NCAA tournament

The Big East held the previous record with 11 teams in a single men's tournament.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Coug90]

...seems very TV biased if you ask me. Network knows the SEC fans will watch these games.

March Madness 2025: SEC sets record with 14 of 16 teams in NCAA tournament

The Big East held the previous record with 11 teams in a single men's tournament.

sports.yahoo.com

The North Carolina invite reeks of corruption. Chair of the committee literally gets a six figure bonus if they make it. So F’n stupid how is this guy even on the committee. NC had no business getting an invite.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

...seems very TV biased if you ask me. Network knows the SEC fans will watch these games.

March Madness 2025: SEC sets record with 14 of 16 teams in NCAA tournament

The Big East held the previous record with 11 teams in a single men's tournament.

sports.yahoo.com

I'd love to know what the net profit of having extra teams is for the league and each individual school.

Also curious what the most teams any single league has placed in year prior. (*edit - in the story subtitle, its 11 by Big East)

At this point the corruption/ collusion is so blatant why not just jam all 16 teams into the tourney?

 

[95coug]

When you have 14 of 16 teams that have 19+ wins, that doesn't say much for your non-conference scheduling.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

When you have 14 of 16 teams that have 19+ wins, that doesn't say much for your non-conference scheduling.

The linked article made it sound like they all played a murderer's row of non-cons.

You'd think an article like that would come with the slant of "ehhhh, sounds a little fishy to me" but it seems to validate the SEC's 14 team bid.

 

[95coug]

The linked article made it sound like they all played a murderer's row of non-cons.

You'd think an article like that would come with the slant of "ehhhh, sounds a little fishy to me" but it seems to validate the SEC's 14 team bid.

Didn't read it. I pulled up Texas' non-con. They went 11-2, but only played 3 decent teams and lost to 2 of them:

Ohio State (L)
Houston Christian
Chicago State
Mississippi Valley State
Syracuse
St. Josephs
Delaware State
UConn (L)
New Mexico State
Arkansas - Pine BLuff
New Orleans
Northwestern State
NC State

 

[ttowncoug]

The linked article made it sound like they all played a murderer's row of non-cons.

You'd think an article like that would come with the slant of "ehhhh, sounds a little fishy to me" but it seems to validate the SEC's 14 team bid.

This is the media love affair with the SEC and BIg-10. If the SEC goes "bust" in the tourney, they will face some criticism.

 

[BleedCrimsonandGray]

This is the media love affair with the SEC and BIg-10. If the SEC goes "bust" in the tourney, they will face some criticism.

fingers crossed.

 

[Observer11]

The linked article made it sound like they all played a murderer's row of non-cons.

You'd think an article like that would come with the slant of "ehhhh, sounds a little fishy to me" but it seems to validate the SEC's 14 team bid.

The SEC only played .500 ball in-conference.

 

[mikalalas]

Didn't read it. I pulled up Texas' non-con. They went 11-2, but only played 3 decent teams and lost to 2 of them:

Ohio State (L)
Houston Christian
Chicago State
Mississippi Valley State
Syracuse
St. Josephs
Delaware State
UConn (L)
New Mexico State
Arkansas - Pine BLuff
New Orleans
Northwestern State
NC State

St Joseph's and Syracuse are good wins, but yeah that's a weaker schedule, and going 2-2 vs the only 4 good noncon opponents isn't good.