Interesting NCAA Tourney Info

by **BEARZ77** » July 31st, 2021, 3:45 pm

Was reading an article about the NCAA MBB Tourney from "Active Times" dated Feb 2020, and the author was reviewing payouts for teams appearing in the NCAA tourney. Each game earns a unit and a unit accounts for roughly a 1.6 million dollar payout over 6 years to a conference. But here's something I didn't realize, according to this article auto qualifiers don't earn a unit for the 1st game , while at large teams do. So given most MM and LM teams only get in as auto qualifiers, and most because of seeding only play the one game, there is no monetary reward to those teams or conferences unless they play a second game. Any one else heard about this or know if it indeed is fact.

It obviously also points out the great benefit to getting multiple at large bids . P-5 plus the BE reap over 75% of the payouts for each NCAA MBB tourney; in 2019 , the B-10 led with reaping over 35 million from that years tourney. Why an at large team would get paid from the get go while an auto qualifier wouldn't makes zero sense to me except it's a way to maximize the payouts to the power conferences.

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by **VUGrad1314** » August 1st, 2021, 10:16 am

If true it makes Drake's bid (and subsequent victory over Wichita State) even more meaningful and valuable. Hopefully we can reliably be a two bid conference again. I definitely think this conference has the strength to do it! Just hope we can continue on the impressive start to the schedules I've been seeing out of many MVC teams so far.

by **BCPanther** » August 2nd, 2021, 9:53 am

The league gets a share for just participating in the tournament, so even though the team doesn't technically 'earn' the share, we still get one.

by **BEARZ77** » August 2nd, 2021, 1:29 pm

BCPanther wrote:The league gets a share for just participating in the tournament, so even though the team doesn't technically 'earn' the share, we still get one.

So basically all leagues get 1 share, and at large teams get an additional share each , and then both earn shares based on #of games played going forward.

by **BCPanther** » August 2nd, 2021, 2:42 pm

BEARZ77 wrote:
BCPanther wrote:The league gets a share for just participating in the tournament, so even though the team doesn't technically 'earn' the share, we still get one.

So basically all leagues get 1 share, and at large teams get an additional share each , and then both earn shares based on #of games played going forward.

I believe that's how it works because I know the league distributes money to schools even for years that we've only had one game (not that that happens very often in this league)

by **Red** » August 5th, 2021, 2:15 pm

IIRC didn't the Valley divide each unit earned into 12 parts:
1/12 to each MVC school
1/12 to the conference office
1/12 to the school that earned it

Or something like that.

by **sixth ace** » August 6th, 2021, 7:14 am

I believe it 11 parts, the school that earns it gets 2 and all the other schools get 1

by **BCPanther** » August 6th, 2021, 7:31 am

Red wrote:IIRC didn't the Valley divide each unit earned into 12 parts:
1/12 to each MVC school
1/12 to the conference office
1/12 to the school that earned it

Or something like that.

This is correct.