Exclusive: The MarchMadness bubble swings a minimum of $10M each year for conferences. $110M has been generated by at-large teams in the play-in games since 2011, when the NCAATournament expanded to 68 teams. aaronbeardap:
Belmont's Nick Muszynski shoots against Temple's Justyn Hamilton during the first half of a First Four game of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Dayton, Ohio.
A minimum of $10 million is at stake each year for the leagues chasing one of the last four at-large bids in the tournament, according to an Associated Press analysis of the NCAA system that pays conferences based on tournament performance. Those teams that end up on the right side of the bubble have generated at least $110 million for their conferences since 2011, when the tournament field expanded to 68 teams.
The overall system is used to compensate leagues for their teams’ tournament performances. The leagues in turn typically share those payouts among their member schools to invest back into their programs, though not to directly pay the athletes — who receive scholarships, not salaries. It’s hard to see small conferences catching up. The top four seeds of the National Invitation Tournament, generally representing the best teams left out of the NCAA Tournament, have pulled heavily from the power conferences, too, leaving little room for small programs to have a realistic shot of cashing in on an NCAA bid.
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