ACC Coaches Will Propose All-Inclusive NCAA Tournament for 2021
With question marks floating around all aspects of sports, the ACC basketball coaches threw another idea out there. What if every eligible Division I school played in the NCAA Tournament?
Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports the ACC coaches voted unanimously to propose an “all-inclusive” tournament for 2021. If you think the idea is crazy, consider it came from well-respected Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
This idea of EVERY team being included in the NCAA tournament this year is spearheaded by Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, source told @Stadium.
The proposal would mean that every single team in the D-1 ranks would be included in the NCAA tournament. https://t.co/k5iiyRjJCD
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) September 9, 2020
Jim Boeheim to @Stadium on the ACC’s proposal to include every team in the NCAA tournament:
“This is a unique time and it’s time to do something different.”
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) September 9, 2020
Goodman reports that 346 of the 357 D-I schools would be eligible for the ACC’s proposal. “Seven are reclassifiers. Three are ineligible due to APR. Oklahoma State ineligible for tourney.”
Sadly, Goodman also reported an NCAA source told him the NCAA Tournament is more likely to be reduced, not expanded.
As of a couple weeks ago, one NCAA source I spoke to said it was more likely that the tournament would shrink to 32 teams than expand to 96 or beyond. Things are obviously fluid, but there’s that …
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) September 9, 2020
Apparently, not all coaches are on board with the idea.
One mid-major athletic director to me on the ACC’s proposal to include every team in the NCAA Tourney:
“It makes us all look like clowns.”
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) September 9, 2020
Like most of sports right now, college basketball isn’t organized at all.
The most common two words I continue to hear from coaches and AD’s involving college basketball right now:
“Shit show.”
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) September 9, 2020
