The exciting point of the year where conference tournaments in college basketball begin is now upon us. The only problem with these conference tournaments is that they now reached a point where it seems as though the regular season is meaningless.
Kind of the opposite to college football where one loss can cost a team any chance at a National Championship of even a BCS bowl game, college basketball has reached a point where it does not matter what kind of regular season the team has they are still eligible to qualify for the NCAA tournament because of their conference tourney.
Take the Big East for example. Although it is one of if not the best conference in the NCAA that does not mean that it has 16 powerhouse schools in it. Yet it still allows for all 16 teams to be able to compete in the conference tournament. That means that a school such as DePaul, who did not win a single Big East game, could go on a lucky streak, and qualify for the NCAA tourney.
Several bubble teams are sweating out their chance at a NCAA tourney birth because there is the risk of a team with a record not worthy of the big dance, picking up a few lucky wins in their conference tournament.
Just because a conference has 12 or 16 teams does not mean that they should have to use all those teams. Set the conference tournament to a lower number so that all those teams have to fight their way into the tourney.
While some skeptics feel as though it makes the conference tournaments more exciting with the concept that anyone can win, it almost invalidates that regular season. If any team can win they should have done it much earlier in the season, simple as that.
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