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			<title>If The Power Conferences Split</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/if-the-power-conferences-split</link>
			<description><![CDATA[John Calipari wasn’t the first to suggest that the top conferences break away and either form their own NCAA division or a new entity. For football, that’s one thing. You only play a relative handful of games and as of now, the new playoff is just a four team affair.



IN


ACC
Big Ten
Big 12
PAC 12
SEC


Miami
Indiana
Kansas
UCLA
Florida


Duke
Ohio State
Kansas State
Arizona
Ole Miss


UNC
Michigan State
Ok.  State
Oregon
Alabama


NCSU
Michigan
Iowa State
Cal
Kentucky


Virginia
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Colorado
Missouri


Florida State
Iowa
Baylor
Arizona State
Tennessee


BC
Illinois
Texas
Stanford
Arkansas


Georgia Tech
Minnesota
West Virginia
Washington
LSU


Wake Forest
Purdue
Texas Tech
USC
Georgia


Clemson
Nebraska
TCU
Utah
Vanderbilt


Virginia Tech
Northwestern

Oregon State
Texas A&amp;M


Syracuse
Penn State

Wash. State
South Carolina


Notre Dame
Maryland


Miss.  State


Louisville
Rutgers


Auburn


Pitt







For basketball, it’s a bit different. If the top conferences – ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big Twelve and PAC 12 – have either their own division or break away entirely, that severely reduces the pool of competitors. With all the comings and goings we’ve seen lately, we could be off, but we count 65 teams in those conferences. That’s enough for a 64 team tournament with a play-in.
But there are some problems with that idea, beginning with merit.
In a 65-team division, schools like Wake, Clemson, Penn State, Rutgers, TCU and Auburn would presumably have to be included.
Moreover, consider the teams which would be excluded. There’s a partial list to your right, but there are a lot of other teams which would be left out as well. You could, however, build a tournament just as interesting with teams like Temple, Georgetown, Memphis, UConn, Butler and UNLV – and you’d still have the Cinderella factor teams like Valpo and Davidson, among others, have provided.
Jay Bilas has often argued for a 64-team tournament with the best 64 teams, regardless of anything else. We’re not sure that would work perfectly either, but it’s a lot better than just taking the power conferences and limiting the field to those schools.
One secret of the tournament and by extension college sports in general is how a town or state or faith identifies with a team, perhaps partly because unlike pro teams, universities rarely move.



OUT ( A partial list)




Saint Louis
Virginia Commonwealth
Butler
La Salle
Temple
Massachusetts
Xavier
Charlotte
Saint Joseph’s
Richmond
Dayton
St. Bonaventure
Rhode Island
Davidson
Georgetown
Marquette
Villanova
Providence
St. John’s
Seton Hall
DePaul
Butler
Creighton
UConn
Cincinnati
Weber State
Memphis
UTEP
Tulsa
Marshall
Houston
Valparaiso
Princeton
Penn
Wichita State
Evansville
Indiana State
Bradley
New Mexico
UNLV
Wyoming
San Diego State
Murray State
Belmont
Western Kentucky
Charleston
New Mexico State
Gonzaga
Saint Mary’s
Brigham Young
Santa Clara
San Francisco 





That’s obvious in the case of someone like Kentucky, BYU or Notre Dame, but it’s also true for VCU, Creighton and Marshall. Marshall fans are some of our absolute favorites. They are just totally into their team. It’s a mini Kentucky without the nuttier elements.
A tournament with a field that changes from year to year is better and more in touch with fans than one which stays set. We hope that no one is dumb enough to follow Calipari’s suggestion without carefully considering what they’ll lose.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 03:00:08 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>WCC extends deal with commish Zaninovich</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/wcc-extends-deal-with-commish-zaninovich</link>
			<description><![CDATA[West Coast Conference Commissioner Jamie Zaninovich has received a three-year contract extension that takes him through May 31, 2017.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Seahawks DE Bruce Irvin suspended 4 games (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/seahawks-de-bruce-irvin-suspended-4-games-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[RENTON, Wash. (AP) -- Seattle Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin was suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season on Friday after the league announced he violated the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Seahawks DE Irvin suspended four games</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/seahawks-de-irvin-suspended-four-games</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Seattle Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin has been suspended for the first four games of the season for violating the league&#039;s substance abuse policy.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Luginbill: Twitter mailbag</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/luginbill-twitter-mailbag</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With Twitter questions on everything from player rankings updates to Drake Harris and Marcelys Jones moving up to West Coast bias, Tom Luginbill answers them all.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:06 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>The World’s Fastest Jump Rope Is Hilarious, For Some Reason</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Watch in amazement as a woman spends 30 seconds jumping rope faster than anyone else on Earth.  She’s like a hummingbird!  She also kinda looks like she’s going to the bathroom.  Oh well, that’s the price you pay for fastest jump rope superiority! (via Reddit)- Follow us on Twitter @withleather - Follow me personally @MrBrandonStroud and Burnsy @MayorBurnsy - Like us on Facebook.LinksThe Wrestling Podcast, Episode 98: Brandon Stroud VI |The Wrestling Blog|Watching GIFs In Reverse Makes Everything Better |UPROXX|Guy Fieri’s New Book Appears To Be Every Bit The Literary Abortion You Thought It Would Be |Warming Glow|“If I showed you all the money shots in Pacific Rim, you’d have a 70-minute orgasm.” |Film Drunk|The Arrested Development Frozen Banana Stand Popped Up At Yankee Stadium |With Leather|‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Is Great, Until… |Gamma Squad|#DMXWeek – Earl Simmons’ 5 Best Movie Roles |Smoking Section|Gallery: Evan Mathis, Guy Who Pees On Things |Kissing Suzy Kolber|My Latest (Crazy) Breaking Bad Theory |Axis Of Ego|Bloodline Series |IndieGogo|Strategy Word Game On iOS Is As Beautiful As It Is Addictive |Tumblewords|The Stages of Being a Kanye West Fan at a Kanye West Show |Grantland|11 Strange Movie Job Titles—Explained! |Mental Floss|7 Technology-Friendly Sex Positions |College Humor|Tracing The Office’s rise from midseason also-ran to nine-season behemoth |AV Club|Miley Cyrus Wasn’t Even The Hottest Person At The Maxim HOT 100 Party |The Superficial|The 10 Most Anticipated Cable Drama Series of 2014 |Pajiba|The post The World’s Fastest Jump Rope Is Hilarious, For Some Reason appeared first on With Leather.
    
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Spurs hold off Warriors, advance to West finals (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/spurs-hold-off-warriors-advance-to-west-finals-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Slow at the start of the series and strong at the end, the San Antonio Spurs wore out the Golden State Warriors the way they have so many other opponents.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 03:00:04 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Spurs KO Warriors, head to West finals</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/spurs-ko-warriors-head-to-west-finals</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The San Antonio Spurs held off a furious final rally to beat the Golden State Warriors 94-82 in Game 6 on Thursday night and advance to the Western Conference finals.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:00:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>How Alex Ferguson Built A Manchester United That Can Win Without Him</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/how-alex-ferguson-built-a-manchester-united-that-can-win-without-him</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Sir Alex Ferguson will manage for the last time on Sunday in an otherwise meaningless match at West Bromwich Albion. It&#039;s an anticlimactic end to a career that spanned four decades, but it&#039;s also a fitting one, since Manchester United wrapped up the title a month ago.Read more...    ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Grizzlies edge Thunder 88-84, reach 1st West final (Yahoo! Sports)</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/grizzlies-edge-thunder-8884-reach-1st-west-final-yahoo-sports</link>
			<description><![CDATA[OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Memphis Grizzlies advanced to the Western Conference finals for the first time in franchise history by beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 88-84 on Wednesday night.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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