NCAA on verge of 68-team men's tournament

[Mike-Dub]

This is awful news... Why fix something when it is already great...  

http://sportsbybrooks.com/source-march-madness-with-96-teams-done-deal-27742

Just noticed that these articles are a month old so hopefully nothing comes of an expansion and the NCAA keeps it the way it is.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Smells like Money.

[Mike-Dub]

Smells like Money.

Obviously but it really is going to hurt the product of a wonderful event.

[Redz]

The NIT must be pretty pumped about this 

[Mike-Dub]

Hold on ... Not set in stone yet...

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/Goodman-NCAA-tournament-expansion-020110

Please god make it so they don't expand

[Mike-Dub]

The NIT must be pretty pumped about this 

The NIT is run by the NCAA so I don't really think they would care.

[fairweatherfan]

I'll wait til it's confirmed to believe it, but 96 teams is a horrible idea.  68 would be ok though it would mostly just marginalize 8 tiny schools a year instead of 2. 

But with 96 you're gonna add a bunch of major schools with 6-10 conference records and mid-majors who just aren't good enough.  Plus you'd have to add a play-in weekend or something similar.  Throws off the symmetry of the whole thing.

Look at the brackets from last year's NIT, or any year's.  Would adding all of them make the tourney any better? 

[Eja117]

I hope if they do this a lot of reporters (preferably big name ones) say as publicly as possible to the school presidents "I thought you said it was important not to have a playoff in football because it interrupts the academic schedule, but here you are expanding another playoff system. Why the hypocrisy?"

[Mike-Dub]

I'll wait til it's confirmed to believe it, but 96 teams is a horrible idea.  68 would be ok though it would mostly just marginalize 8 tiny schools a year instead of 2. 

But with 96 you're gonna add a bunch of major schools with 6-10 conference records and mid-majors who just aren't good enough.  Plus you'd have to add a play-in weekend or something similar.  Throws off the symmetry of the whole thing.

Look at the brackets from last year's NIT, or any year's.  Would adding all of them make the tourney any better? 

I'm not going to believe it till it is confirmed either and going to hope to death that it won't happen.

[Redz]

The NIT must be pretty pumped about this 

The NIT is run by the NCAA so I don't really think they would care.

Right, but the traditional finish at MSG etc...

[wdleehi]

I hate the idea.



Just like I hate how they have the small schools that earn an automatic bid have to play the play in game. 

[ToppersBsktball10]

Doubt it happens.

[Rondo_is_better]

Doubt it happens.

It better not.

[pearljammer10]

Dumb, march madness doesnt need to last any longer.

[lon3lytoaster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxyPeME9TbI

That's a lot of betting.