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		<title>Universal NCAA Bids: Let&#8217;s Qualify every D1 Team for March Madness</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/351-image-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="DaVinci hoops" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/351-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/351-image-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Another bout of March Madness is nearly upon us. Alas, the current NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament format — 68 teams, with 8 playing off/in to create a field of 64 — begins with the worst sort of capricious, competitive folly. From the moment the play-in gambit was instituted, in 2001, the slope got very slippery [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.halphillips.net/lets-take-the-ncaa-tournament-up-a-few-notches-to-351-fahrenheit">Universal NCAA Bids: Let&#8217;s Qualify every D1 Team for March Madness</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.halphillips.net">Hal Phillips</a>.</p>
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