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They want to expand the field at the exact time when college basketball is being made less competitive by NIL. Fewer and fewer teams will have a chance at a Natty as the talent coalesces around a smaller and smaller circle of teams. Insanity.
 
TheShot1990 said:
What is this, Hockey? Just go 128. It will still be well below the 50% of NHL teams the make the playoffs.
And make the final the best of 3. This way we can watch college basketball till June.
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If you go to 128, might as well go to 256 and have a 4th weekend of games.

Regarding hockey, in the 80s 16 of 21 teams made the playoffs and the Whalers still struggled to make the playoffs.
 
Dogfish said:
And...the Big East still only gets three teams in,
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Wow, once in the last 12 years the Big East only gets 3 teams in and that is your narrative.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
There is no way they would do it by having a preponderance of play-in games for the at-larges.

The whole point is the P4 wants to squeeze out the low majors. They'll make all the 15 seeds play a play-in game before a single 10 seed.
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So make all 16,15,14 seeds play-ins and get rid of the two 11 seed play-ins? No ones going to watch those games and we won’t have any more cinderellas in the first round
 
Tenspro2002 said:
There is no way they would do it by having a preponderance of play-in games for the at-larges.

The whole point is the P4 wants to squeeze out the low majors. They'll make all the 15 seeds play a play-in game before a single 10 seed.
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Actually, they will because Wagner vs. St. Peter’s doesn’t sell. If it goes to 76, I expect 6 or 8 of the 12 matchups to feature at-larges.
 
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I would prefer the tournament go back to 64, but that is not going to happen. If it goes to 76, it will be good for the Big East and by extension UConn.
 
I recommend they go to the college bowl system where just about every program that came close to a winning season or better receives an invite, then a bunch of yahoos vote for who they think is the Nation Champion. (I still can't believe it took so many decades to get the FSB playoff system. Good grief! Had to be the all time most anticlimactic championship decision ever in the history of sport.)
 
shizzle787 said:
Actually, they will because Wagner vs. St. Peter’s doesn’t sell. If it goes to 76, I expect 6 or 8 of the 12 matchups to feature at-larges.
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No, but forcing the minnows into play-in games means the actual Round 1 on Thursday/Friday includes more P4 teams, which is what they want, and this is the only way they get it without sacrificing the "auto bids" for the low majors.
 
The way this would be executed is that a 14-16 power conference team will make it in because they went 2-7 in Q1 while a 25-5 mid major misses out because they lost their conference championship

I’m with Jon Rothstein on this one. The only change that should be made right now is that all AQ’ers should be in the field, and the first four should be the bottom 8 at large teams. It’s insane that you can win your conference championship but still have to win another game to get to R64
 
UCann said:
The biggest issue in either scenario is what does Field of 68 do? Would they have to rebrand and lose all the brand equity they have built? Or keep the brand and have a name that makes no sense. Tough one...
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Just like the Big 10 and Big 12?
 
UCann said:
The biggest issue in either scenario is what does Field of 68 do? Would they have to rebrand and lose all the brand equity they have built? Or keep the brand and have a name that makes no sense. Tough one...
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They only have 47k subscribers. They should rebrand now and drop the number.
 
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7774 said:
?? Again, the current tournament has 67 total games to determine a champion. In a 128 team tournament there would be 64 games just in the new first round. You’re saying they are somehow going to fit an entire NCAA tournament‘s worth of games into the small window between the end of the conference tournaments and the normal start of the tournament. It’s not a video game, there are real life logistical aspects to things.
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The winning team plays 7 games instead of 6. So one extra night for a game. All 64 games can be played simultaneously, then run a “regular” tournament.
 
uconnfan68 said:
The winning team plays 7 games instead of 6. So one extra night for a game. All 64 games can be played simultaneously, then run a “regular” tournament.
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You don‘t seem to have good grasp of how things work in practical reality. Where are these games happening? I’m sure the television partners will be thrilled with 64 simultaneous games, those should get great ratings. You know a big part of this is the additional revenue generated by people watching these games and the ads that come with them right?
 
UCann said:
The biggest issue in either scenario is what does Field of 68 do? Would they have to rebrand and lose all the brand equity they have built? Or keep the brand and have a name that makes no sense. Tough one...
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Big 10 conference has 18 teams, Big 12 has 16, ACC has two teams from California…

It would make about as much sense as the rest of college athletics names.
 
DogMania said:
I recommend they go to the college bowl system where just about every program that came close to a winning season or better receives an invite, then a bunch of yahoos vote for who they think is the Nation Champion. (I still can't believe it took so many decades to get the FSB playoff system. Good grief! Had to be the all time most anticlimactic championship decision ever in the history of sport.)
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Could not disagree more. I hate the CFB playoff. College football was the greatest regular season in any sport and it’s being marginalized (for money of course) into this ridiculous playoff system with 3 loss teams and silly byes for winning mid major conferences.
 
NCAA wants no business cracking down on transfer portal to put some rules in place, nor NIL which is wild Wild West. They take on expanding the tournament. So perfect….glad we got Charlie baker in there…..
 
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scotty0330 said:
NCAA wants no business cracking down on transfer portal to put some rules in place, nor NIL which is wild Wild West. They take on expanding the tournament. So perfect….glad we got Charlie baker in there…..
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Just the usual "self preservation" type actions for the NCAA. Where will these guys go for the same level salaries if the NCAA no longer exists?
 
This is so unnecessary. But they see $$$$ and that's all that happens.
 
UofCT said:
Can probably get a few HS teams in there too
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This past year's Monteverde team probably would hold their own against many of these expansion teams.
 
I realize this thread is old but it wasn't worth starting a new thread for this update.

"That would be the goal, to try and do this for next year," Baker said. "We've been talking about 72 and 76 [teams]."

This is a massive development, as NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt told CBS Sports just two months ago that a decision on future NCAA Tournament expansion was unlikely to come soon. Issues tied to expansion are certainly financial, but there are also other topics to discuss, such as preserving the tradition that has become March Madness.

www.cbssports.com

NCAA discussing expanding March Madness tournament as soon as 2026 after previously saying it was unlikely

More madness could be coming to March in the near future
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
 
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