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This was the right move for the conference. There is an argument to reward the top 1-2 seeds with a double bye (not going to look into how you would do that) but Arch Madness is a special conference tournament because there is always 5+ teams that could legitimately win it; and fanbases that believe it as well. The fans are what make it special and if the bracket that only allows 1-2 teams (I'm looking at you WCC) to have a shot, not a lot of fans from around the league are going to make the migration.Missouri Valley Conference settles on new basketball postseason bracket
The Missouri Valley Conference is left with only 11 teams this season, following Missouri State University’s official departure on July 1. That meant the conference had to change the men’s and women’s basketball postseason tournaments for the second time in four years. According to an email...
Kind of disappointing to see what the MVC has been going through. They’ve obviously been going through financial hardship for the last 5ish years. I understand but still sucks to get a diminished all around product. The media day being a zoom call plus the lack of a decent social media presence has been sad to see. I’m going to guess budget cuts and lack of vision is the culprit.This is some lazyin my opinion. Might as well not even do a poll.
I understand the sentiment, it’s important for the MVC to do the little things right. But with the way the college landscape is I’m fine with the preseason media day being on zoom. Every team is basically a bunch of unknown players, not sure of the value of going to STL with a bunch of unknowns and talking them about those unknowns.
I’m not even mad about it. I feel like it used to be an event where there was hype and now you forget about media day until it’s actually happening. Probably save a lot of money by zooming with Jeff Goodman and I’m sure that’s what it comes down to.
I can’t remember which interview it was but the host said something similar. He goes “the offseason isn’t as fun as it used to be. I used to know every team, who they had coming back, who they lost, who I thought would step up from a role guy to a starter, etc. now it’s just a bunch of players I’ve never heard of and really have no clue how it’ll go.”
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