SWAC's postseason basketball decisions have it backwards -- as usual


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - They're playing in an empty building with a full field. As usual, the Southwestern Athletic Conference has it backwards.

The SWAC's annual basketball tournament is under way in Houston, at the 18,000-seat Toyota Center, the downtown arena that hosts the NBA's Houston Rockets. The Alabama A&M women played Tuesday evening - the box score announced the attendance at 1,100 but that's generous - and its men play on Thursday.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/03/swacs_basketball_decisions_hav.html#incart_river
 
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Lets see how quick the facts of this article will be dismissed with the usual excuses. :lol:
The SWAC will never sell out the Toyota Center this week.

But, when it comes to standards, it's already sold out.
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They're playing in an empty building with a full field. As usual, the Southwestern Athletic Conference has it backwards.

The SWAC's annual basketball tournament is under way in Houston, at the 18,000-seat Toyota Center, the downtown arena that hosts the NBA's Houston Rockets. The Alabama A&M women played Tuesday evening - the box score announced the attendance at 1,100 but that's generous
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that can't be right, because all the SWAC had to do was move all its events to Houston. Surely, the writer left off a zero and the attendance was actually 11,000
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Expect more columns like this one. Wait until the schools that did not make the tournament see a SWAC school that did not win its conference tournament get into the NCAA tournament.
 
Ya'll complaining about 1100 fans on a Tuesday? Really? I am sure Bham never got 1100 fans. I know some people from JSU who are going to Houston just because it's Houston but they never considered going to Bham.
 
Tigerpride said:
Ya'll complaining about 1100 fans on a Tuesday? Really? I am sure Bham never got 1100 fans. I know some people from JSU who are going to Houston just because it's Houston but they never considered going to Bham.
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Why they still going didn't the men get eliminated yesterday?
 
EB said:
Expect more columns like this one. Wait until the schools that did not make the tournament see a SWAC school that did not win its conference tournament get into the NCAA tournament.
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Can't you already hear commentators trying to explain this as the championship games tips off and then perhaps both schools having a celebration on the court. the swac tourney champ hoisting a trophy, but not going anywhere and the team that just lost, celebrating their trip to the ncaa. only in the swac.
 
Tigerpride said:
Ya'll complaining about 1100 fans on a Tuesday? Really? I am sure Bham never got 1100 fans. I know some people from JSU who are going to Houston just because it's Houston but they never considered going to Bham.
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Point is if they go back to the old days and have the SWAC Basketball tournament on a rotating campus basis, the attendance would go back up. The SWAC footprint is not big enough to take the basketball tournament to a neutral city and draw in fans. One day people will wake up to that reality.
 
Of course the Alabama media would write an article slanted as to why it is sooooooo terrible to have the SWAC championship anywhere but Alabama. I'm going this year, I went when it was here in Garland an I'm going to Houston. How many times did I go when it was in B'Ham? ZERO!!!!!
 
players said:
Point is if they go back to the old days and have the SWAC Basketball tournament on a rotating campus basis, the attendance would go back up. The SWAC footprint is not big enough to take the basketball tournament to a neutral city and draw in fans. One day people will wake up to that reality.
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I'd like to see this happen
 
major095 said:
EB said:
Expect more columns like this one. Wait until the schools that did not make the tournament see a SWAC school that did not win its conference tournament get into the NCAA tournament.
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Can't you already hear commentators trying to explain this as the championship games tips off and then perhaps both schools having a celebration on the court. the swac tourney champ hoisting a trophy, but not going anywhere and the team that just lost, celebrating their trip to the ncaa. only in the swac.
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I can hear it for sure. The sounds of those voices are getting louder and louder.
 
Mane, nobody is making a stink nationally about the SWAC tournament. Why? Because nobody cares. Why doesn't anyone care? Because who really cares about the tournament besides those with a connection to the SWAC.

And if ESPN goobers are moaning about this because a SWAC school is "taking away
"a bid too bad. If some schools can't make the 68-team field without it coming down to selection Sunday, then more than likely that school isn't going to win the national championship anyway.

I have no sympathy for them. At all. They had a regular season and conference tourney to boost their resumes.

Oh, and this wouldn't be the worst thing to happen in NCAA history.

I mean, there were computer programmers and folks who admitted not watching games deciding who played for the college football championship. Didn't a team that failed to win its own division and conference play for the national title in football?

And God knows countless other rulings and decisions made by conferences, schools and the NCAA that didn't make a lick of sense.
 
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kendrick said:
Mane, nobody is making a stink nationally about the SWAC tournament. Why? Because nobody cares. Why doesn't anyone care? Because who really cares about the tournament besides those with a connection to the SWAC.

And if ESPN goobers are moaning about this because a SWAC school is "taking away
"a bid too bad. If some schools can't make the 68-team field without it coming down to selection Sunday, then more than likely that school isn't going to win the national championship anyway.

I have no sympathy for them. At all. They had a regular season and conference tourney to boost their resumes.

Oh, and this wouldn't be the worst thing to happen in NCAA history.

I mean, there were computer programmers and folks who admitted not watching games deciding who played for the college football championship. Didn't a team that failed to win its own division and conference play for the national title in football?

And God knows countless other rulings and decisions made by conferences, schools and the NCAA that didn't make a lick of sense.
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I agree with all of this, especially the part in bold.
 



kendrick said:
Mane, nobody is making a stink nationally about the SWAC tournament. Why? Because nobody cares. Why doesn't anyone care? Because who really cares about the tournament besides those with a connection to the SWAC.
And if ESPN goobers are moaning about this because a SWAC school is "taking away
"a bid too bad. If some schools can't make the 68-team field without it coming down to selection Sunday, then more than likely that school isn't going to win the national championship anyway.

I have no sympathy for them. At all. They had a regular season and conference tourney to boost their resumes.

Oh, and this wouldn't be the worst thing to happen in NCAA history.

I mean, there were computer programmers and folks who admitted not watching games deciding who played for the college football championship. Didn't a team that failed to win its own division and conference play for the national title in football?

And God knows countless other rulings and decisions made by conferences, schools and the NCAA that didn't make a lick of sense.
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Wait until after those tournament bids go out and then tell me nobody nationally care about the SWAC. :lol:
 
players said:
Wait until after those tournament bids go out and then tell me nobody nationally care about the SWAC. :lol:
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Yeah, the winner of the SWAC Tournament is gonna be the straw that breaks camel's back.

"You mean the winner of a conference we've never heard of made the NCAA tournament and some mediocre PWI didn't?"

LET'S GET OUTRAGED!!!!!!

I bet nobody could tell you what conference Florida Gulf Coast won last year until they started beating powerhouses in the NCAA tournament.
 
kendrick said:
Mane, nobody is making a stink nationally about the SWAC tournament. Why? Because nobody cares. Why doesn't anyone care? Because who really cares about the tournament besides those with a connection to the SWAC.

And if ESPN goobers are moaning about this because a SWAC school is "taking away
"a bid too bad. If some schools can't make the 68-team field without it coming down to selection Sunday, then more than likely that school isn't going to win the national championship anyway.

I have no sympathy for them. At all. They had a regular season and conference tourney to boost their resumes.

Oh, and this wouldn't be the worst thing to happen in NCAA history.

I mean, there were computer programmers and folks who admitted not watching games deciding who played for the college football championship. Didn't a team that failed to win its own division and conference play for the national title in football?

And God knows countless other rulings and decisions made by conferences, schools and the NCAA that didn't make a lick of sense.
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They don't care about football (the bigger money sport) but all of a sudden they are gonna start caring about basketball.

As I said in the other thread, the talking heads on ESPN don't want auto bids and just the best 64 teams. The only people who want this is ESPN and no one else because it's not in the best interest of college basketball.

 
kendrick said:
I mean, there were computer programmers and folks who admitted not watching games deciding who played for the college football championship. Didn't a team that failed to win its own division and conference play for the national title in football?

And God knows countless other rulings and decisions made by conferences, schools and the NCAA that didn't make a lick of sense.
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But that school was eligible to play in that game.
 
Fiyah said:
kendrick said:
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I mean, there were computer programmers and folks who admitted not watching games deciding who played for the college football championship. Didn't a team that failed to win its own division and conference play for the national title in football?

And God knows countless other rulings and decisions made by conferences, schools and the NCAA that didn't make a lick of sense.
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But that school was eligible to play in that game.
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It (Alabama) sure was. In 2003 Oklahoma had it head handed to it in the Big 12 Championship game against Kansas State. The Sooners played for the national championship against LSU. They were eligible too.
 
players said:
Point is if they go back to the old days and have the SWAC Basketball tournament on a rotating campus basis, the attendance would go back up. The SWAC footprint is not big enough to take the basketball tournament to a neutral city and draw in fans. One day people will wake up to that reality.
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IMO, the two places to ideally have the conference tournament on a consistent basis are Baton Rouge (River Center downtown with the casinos and the development downtown has undergone in recent years would make it nice) and in Jackson.

However, I wish we'd scrap the conference tournament altogether and send the regular season champion to the NCAA Tournament like the Ivy League. Why, because I believe one-bid leagues should do all they can to send their best representative. Yeah, I know about Florida Gulf Coast's flukish run last season ... they weren't even the Atlantic Sun regular season champion last year. However, that isht is the exception rather than the norm. BTW, FGCU lost in the conference tournament this season.
 
Journalist said:
IMO, the two places to ideally have the conference tournament on a consistent basis are Baton Rouge (River Center downtown with the casinos and the development downtown has undergone in recent years would make it nice) and in Jackson.

However, I wish we'd scrap the conference tournament altogether and send the regular season champion to the NCAA Tournament like the Ivy League. Why, because I believe one-bid leagues should do all they can to send their best representative. Yeah, I know about Florida Gulf Coast's flukish run last season ... they weren't even the Atlantic Sun regular season champion last year. However, that isht is the exception rather than the norm. BTW, FGCU lost in the conference tournament this season.
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They had the favor returned to them when they beat Mercer last year as the #2 seed in the A-Sun title game (FGCU lost to Mercer as the #1 seed in the title game)
 
In_The_662 said:
They had the favor returned to them when they beat Mercer last year as the #2 seed in the A-Sun title game (FGCU lost to Mercer as the #1 seed in the title game)
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And that's the basis of my argument of eliminating the conference tournament in a one-bid league. If Team A proved through the course of the regular season its the best team in your conference, why jeopardize that strong representative in the NCAA Tournament for a conference tournament money grab.

Now, a good bit of smaller conferences hold their conference tournaments on the campus of one of their member schools. If you're going to reform the SWAC Tournament, get it out of an NBA arena. I know, there's some prestige in playing in an NBA arena, but 2,000 people in an 8,000-seat arena looks a helluva lot better than 2,000 in an arena with 15,000-seating capacity.
 
pvdogteam said:
Of course the Alabama media would write an article slanted as to why it is sooooooo terrible to have the SWAC championship anywhere but Alabama. I'm going this year, I went when it was here in Garland an I'm going to Houston. How many times did I go when it was in B'Ham? ZERO!!!!!
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Bullshit.... McCarter don't like AAMU or the SWAC.... He doesn't even like covering AAMU but was pushed into that role.

who gives a damn when you go.... that just cancels out.... I went when it was in Birmingham every year and not going to Houston.... so we cancel each other out.
 
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