32 is the number you want for group play so the top two teams in each group create your Round of 16 for the first part of the knockout bracket. In case of a tie in the standings, the top seed for the conference tournament gets in. We have 32 conferences, so all 32 regular season champions get in. All of the games you’re about to hear about would count as part of a team’s NCAA tournament selection profile for the national championship tournament in March 2023.
Everything I’m about to lay out for you here would count as part of the 2023-24 regular season for college basketball. That’s the point of this, by the way: Big time games in November and December to draw eyeballs to college basketball. I’m probably going to do one of these every year until someone in the college basketball brain trust gets off their butt and starts to put together television partners to get this done. It was fun to spend the last calendar year bringing up the idea of a CBBCL every single time someone talked about how college hoops needs to do a better job drawing attention to itself, so we’re doing it again, with a brand new fresh set of teams from last year’s standings. This isn’t even the first year that we’ve mocked up a CBBCL here on Anonymous Eagle, as we did this last year, too. Friend Of The Show Andrei Greska even brought the idea back up in 2019 for an article on Paint Touches. Click that link for the still available audio of that podcast, which includes the three of them doing a LIVE MOCK DRAW for their iteration of the Champions League. I am standing on the shoulders of giants, as John Infante had the idea back before Andy Glockner wrote about it for Sports Illustrated in 2012 and the two of them joined Matt Norlander for a CBS Sports podcast about it in 2013. I propose to you that we solve this problem with a Men’s College Basketball Champions League. You know what has a real problem with the non-conference/November and December portion of their schedule relative to the amount of attention it gets? COLLEGE BASKETBALL. You know what has a collection of leagues competing with each other under one banner? COLLEGE BASKETBALL. Soccer does love their two game playoff system, just to even out any weirdness from one 90 minute game. It’s also a really fun concept, as you get guaranteed matches between the tippy top clubs all across Europe because everyone plays home and away as a part of not only group play, but also the qualifying rounds. It’s a lot of words to explain a relatively simple concept, sure. Group play creates 16 teams for a knockout playoff bracket, and that turns into 8, 4, and then two teams left for the title. If you’re not familiar with Champions League, but you are familiar with the World Cup, think of it like CONCACAF creating a system to decide who gets to be in the World Cup group play.
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Once the teams are decided, UEFA sorts everyone into a ranking system and then everyone except for the top teams - 26 in this year’s league - have to play through a series of qualifying rounds to get to group play.
England, Spain, Italy, and Germany were granted four spots this year, France and Portugal got three, and nine more countries got two teams each for a total of 78 teams. League of Champions, get it? If you play in one of the bigger national leagues - for 2022-23, it’s the top 14 - you can qualify for the Champions League by finishing towards the top of your league, not only by winning it. If you win one of the 54 national leagues that are a part of the Union of European Football Associations, everyone from England all the way down through the UEFA rankings to San Marino, you’re automatically in the Champions League the next year. The final for the 2022-23 Champions League - Manchester City from England and Inter Milan from Italy - is happening the same day that this is being published. Everyone is aware that soccer is a very popular sport on this planet, yes? Particularly in Europe, yes? Are you aware that every year’s standings in the top European soccer leagues provide the membership and participants for something going on during the following season called UEFA Champions League?
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