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Originally Posted by FlyingArrow Akron Bowling Green Cincinnati Cleveland State Dayton Kent State Miami Ohio Ohio State Toledo Wright State Xavier Youngstown State 13 Ohio teams. Brainstorming a format just because... Take 8 teams. Choose the top 8 teams by RPI (based on previous season RPI rankings) and invite them to participate. Schedule it for December or January. Late enough that the season RPI has some meaning, but early enough to not conflict with late season games. Split the 8 teams into two halves based on the current season's RPI: Round 1: A: 1vs4 B: 2vs3 C: 5vs8 D: 6vs7 Round 2: E: Game A winner vs Game B winner F: Game A loser vs Game B loser G: Game C winner vs Game D winner H: Game C loser vs Game D loser Round 3: Game E winner vs Game G winner Game E loser vs Game G loser Game F winner vs Game H winner Game F loser vs Game H loser Kind of an anti-climactic finale since the top teams play each other early, but there is a chance for an upset. Upside is that nobody's schedule takes a bad hit from this. 3 games where the top 4 teams play each other for the first 2 rounds, and the 5 worst Ohio teams aren't in the tournament at all. And big incentive to play your way into the top 4 so you can play with seeds 1-4 instead of seeds 5-8.

That's too much and too many RPI anchors. Keep it simple just OSU, UC, X, and UD. He wasn't talking about a tourney, but he was talking about a Crossroads Classic like they have in Indiana.

	Xavier XAVIER MUSKETEERS Dayton's biggest rival dating back to the early 1900s. Founded in 1831, Xavier University is a Jesuit, Catholic university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its three colleges offer 78 undergraduate majors, 43 minors and 11 graduate programs to 6,646 total students, including 3,961 undergraduates. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation and one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities nationwide. Xavier's nickname is the Musketeers and are fellow A10 Conference members.