We Need a Double Elimination NCAA Tournament

Concerning the proposed expansion of the NCAA College BB Tournament, I see this as a bad move.  Expanding the tournament simply means to include the now NIT teams and further water down the talent of the tournament.  When was the last time a 16 seed made any noise in the tournament.  Answer? Never.  Why add more. It would make it more of a bad joke.

Further, the only team recognized for the National Championship is the Tournament winner.  It is more of a Tournament SURVIVOR.  Simply because they avoided the upset.  Kansas, for example had a bad game, one bad game, where Northern Iowa had the best game of their season.  But the end of the regular season Kansas was 32-2. They were supposedly the regular season champion. But that means nothing, the only thing that matters is the tournament winner.

I agree that if one team is favored 'ON PAPER' over another team, let them prove it on the floor.  But it's frustrating to see a team out after one bad game.  What about, instead of expanding the tournament to 96 teams, change the format of the 64 teams to a DOUBLE ELIMINATION tournament.  The format would have to be studied on how to do that but I've seen it many times in weekend softball tournaments.  Why eliminate a team after one bad game.  Make it double elimination to enhance the options and the suspense.  If a team loses then they are in the loser's bracket and have to play an extra game or two.

This would seem to be a better option than expanding to 96 teams.  I am a Jay-hawker and we felt the sting of the one game upset many times in the tournament with a highly rated team, if not a number 1 team.  It's real wrong for a team like that to be sitting and watching other teams with 8-10 losses still playing when they are done and gone. 

Any thoughts?