A 17 Game schedule not 18 If there are 19 teams and you play every team once you get 17 games. That gives you three more OOC slots. [Twenty ACC games with two in December is horrible, IMHO.]
The 17 game ACC schedule allows adding that 3 game tourney in Hawaii or the Bahamas or Puerto Rico, etc. to the OOC schedule on top of playing the same sort of 11 game schedule played now.
As to the other--the NCAA should do away with a selection committe and let a computer ranking (or averaged rankings of more than one) select the at-large field in ranking order-- leave the human factor out of the picture. If Net or KenPom were used that way without playing "navel gazing" games by humans to use sub-components of NET to put teams in who shouldn't be in (like Virginia this time)/26 P5 games. Also, they can count schools which meet a certain threshold to count towards the 26 (Memphis, VCU, Dayton, San Diego St, Gonzaga, etc). 5 games against cupcakes is plenty. So whether they want to do 18+8, 20+6, 22+4, whatever. I'd still prefer 20 conference games.
A 17 Game schedule would be played (not 18). If there are 18 teams and you play every opponent once you get 17 games. That gives you three more OOC slots (i.e., 14 vs the current 11). [The current 20 ACC games with two in December is horrible, IMHO.]
A 17 game ACC schedule allows adding that 3 game tourney in Hawaii or the Bahamas or Puerto Rico, etc. [or a 2nd 2-game tourney (like a return of the Steel Bowl)] to the OOC schedule on top of playing the same sort of 11 game schedule played now.
As to the other question--the NCAA should do away with a selection committee doing anything-- except arranging seeding-- and let a computer ranking (or averaged rankings of more than one computer system) select the at-large field in computer ranked order-- leave the human factor out of that picture. If Net or KenPom were used that way without the committee playing "navel gazing" games using sub-components of NET (which have already been accounted for in the ranking itself) to put teams in who shouldn't be in (like Virginia and others this time) and leave teams out like Pitt, St. John's and several others.
Bottom line, however, was that my original post was just an "if I ran things" -- so, just my wishful thinking (dream) as to how, in my personal opinion, things should/could be done differently. Don't take it for more than was intended.