re: SEC exploring having basketball tournament at primary site

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The SEC basketball tournament is kind of dumb imo.

It's nothing like the SEC Championship game, that involves 2 schools, 1 game, and both teams are playing for something very important.

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I actually agree with this especially when the tournament is set up to be a "everybody gets a ribbon" environment geared at extracting money at the expense of quality or fan driven games.

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In any given year in a basketball season there are like 2-3 at most teams in the conference worth a damn and the other 10-11 are either terrible or mediocre.

The basketball tournament is 4 days long and you don't know how long your team will be in it, so why travel all that way if you're gonna get bounced first game.

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I agree 100% and why I have always advocated fewer teams in the tournament but played in a baseball double elimination format. In my view put the best 4 or 8 teams in the conference in the tourney and then play a double elimination type system. This insures several things.

#1 games that actually matter between the better teams in the conference
#2 puts real value on the regular season to even make the post season
#3 means every fan base would get to see at least 2 games over the weekend played by their team
#4 eliminates weekday games so more fans can actually attend weekend games
#5 would show the SEC was well ahead of the rest of the country in terms of innovative thinking
#6 stands would be much more full in the early rounds so the games would look better on TV

You could do a 4 team weekend like this :

friday night
Game #1 = (1) seed vs (4) seed
Game #2 = (2) seed vs (3) seed

saturday
Game #3 = Game #1 loser vs Game #2 loser (elimination game)

saturday night
Game #4 = Game #3 winner vs lower seed of Game #1 or Game # 2 winner (elimination game)

sunday afternoon
Game #5 = Game #4 winner vs higher seed of Game #1 or Game # 2 winner (championship game game)

If you did 8 teams you follow a similar format but do it over 2 weekends. Maybe do the first weekend at host schools and do the following weekend at a fixed site like nashville.