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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
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Originally posted by Camron Rust
They set the time for what ever reasons. The conferences can set their tourney time earier if they want. That's basically what the NCAA has said. If the tourney's want their games to matter, the can move the games earlier.
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Not quite - the tourney time is set by one thing and one thing only - the conference's contract with either ESPN or CBS. Neither network is going to want a game to end at 2, then have viewers turn the channel until the women's selection show at 5.
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The conferences agreed to those times. It's been that way for years and they've know that the seeding was done before those games finished. It's nothing new. I doubt they'll change anything. Sure, it may be driven by the networks but they're the ones offering the money. The conferences can take the money and play late or dictate their own time but probably at a lower amount of money. Still the conferences choice. They chose money over time.