Basketball tournament expanding to 76 teams

[DzynKingRTR]

Sources: NCAA basketball tournaments set to move to 76 teams

The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams, with sources telling ESPN that clearing the final steps needed is just a formality.

www.espn.com

Good bye college basketball. I am done. They just continue to find ways to ruin every single sport.

 

[CB4]

Geez I was hoping for a nice round 128.

 

[rolltide_21]

This is absurd. It was perfect at 64.

 

[Bama Shoals]

We just continue to dumb down everything for the sake of money. Like CNO said in his interview at Regions, this will now force them to include a few teams with losing records when the metrics say they're better than some mid-major teams. The only plus I see is when a top small conference team who has been number one in the league loses in their conference tournament and would normally be left out is included. That could make for some fun matchups. Otherwise, I hate this move.

 

[dayhiker]

This is absurd. It was perfect at 64.

It was. They expanded to 68 in 2011 though.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Geez I was hoping for a nice round 128.

you joke but there were some people that wanted 96. I believe it was the B1G that originally proposed 96.

 

[rolltide_21]

It was. They expanded to 68 in 2011 though.

Right, that’s my point

 

[BhamToTexas]

Dumb...just dumb.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Sources: NCAA basketball tournaments set to move to 76 teams

The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams, with sources telling ESPN that clearing the final steps needed is just a formality.

www.espn.com

Good bye college basketball. I am done. They just continue to find ways to ruin every single sport.

Wow!

So the Barn would have been the 77th best team in America if we were already in that format...

 

[Bazza]

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Sources: NCAA basketball tournaments set to move to 76 teams

The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams, with sources telling ESPN that clearing the final steps needed is just a formality.

www.espn.com

Good bye college basketball. I am done. They just continue to find ways to ruin every single sport.

Not surprising as more games mean more money...

 

[BamaHoopsBoi]

Auburn is somewhere banging their head on a toilet paper roll right now.

 

[bamamc1]

Auburn is somewhere banging their head on a toilet paper roll right now.

I approve this message.

 

[Tide Rev]

Just when you think the NCAA could not be any stupider, they prove you wrong. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils…” 1 Timothy 6:10

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Just add another weekend, plus a play-in day the preceding Wednesday.

Now you have all 360 +/- D1 teams in. Everybody gets a trophy, and nobody gets triggered and their widdle feewings hurt.

I wish I could put that in blue font.

 

[mdb-tpet]

Geez I was hoping for a nice round 128.

Naw, 256 is the way to go. I mean the 255th best team in D1 Basketball has at least a 1 in a million chance, right? Or, next up is best of 7 for each round, that way we get mo' great basketball. I mean who just isn't aching to watch up to 532 postseason games!?!

 

[BamaMoon]

So do the extra 4 plus the new 8 play a mini tournament to see who is in the field of 64? Or do top seeds start getting byes? Or, is this a brand new bracket?

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

So do the extra 4 plus the new 8 play a mini tournament to see who is in the field of 64? Or do top seeds start getting byes? Or, is this a brand new bracket?

Basically the same thing when you think about it...

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

ESPN and $$$$$

 

[DzynKingRTR]

ESPN and $$$$$

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