Quality of play is the only thing that interests me once my teams are gone, and the quality of play this year is really down. Either we have the best defensive players in recent history, or we have some of the worst clutch shooters. I have never cared about "upsets". Not sure why they seems to garner so much interest. I would much rather see the best teams play well and advance, making the final 4 about the right things, not "upsets".
That won't happen until AQs are removed. There's no need for a 14-20 team in the tournament because they won 5 straight games to win their conference tournament. Imagine SMU as a 16 seed rather than playing in the NIT. Then, we'll get the best tournament possible.
my personal belief is that any team with a sub .500 record should automatically omitted from conference tourneys.
I've always liked that, but with one important change. I'd omit eliminating them from conference tournament and just prohibit their entering the NCAA - drop down to #2, etc. If the conference didn't have even one with a .500 plus record, too bad. You lose your AQ for the NCAA for that year...
