re: NCAA should change "First Four" to last 8 bubble teams

The reason it got to 65, a conference was added and they didn't want to take away the at large spot. And then once you had 1 play in game might as well have 4. I do agree however that all 4 games should be for the 11th seed in each bracket. To make a smaller school fly to Dayton play and then go where ever to play one of the Top 4 teams in the country seems a little daunting task

A little history...

The game was conceived after the Mountain West Conference, which had been formed in 1999 following the split of the Western Athletic Conference, was given an automatic bid for its conference champion, which made it the 31st conference to receive an automatic berth into the men's tournament. Unlike the women's tournament, which accommodated this change by eliminating an at-large bid to keep their field at 64 teams, the organizers of the men's tournament elected to keep their at-large entries at 34. In order to eliminate one of the teams to have a 64-team bracket, it became necessary for another game to be played between the two lowest-ranked teams among the automatic bid leagues.