- GREAT NEWS: Minor NCAA Tournament Expansion on the way - 04/22/2010 (195 views)

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After all the discussion of expanding the Men's College Basketball NCAA Tournament to 96 teams, it appears that the committee has come to grips with a much better solution.

A new ESPN report claims that the NCAA Tournament Committee has passed a proposal to expand the field from 65 to 68 teams, and have every game of every round of the tournament broadcasted live over CBS, TBS, and TNT.

More information is still to come, and the official vote on the proposal will take place on April 29th.

But right now, this proposal is great news and everything that sports fans and program administrators alike could have possibly asked for.

Everything about the classic postseason tournament will stay the same, except 3 more teams will be added to play-in games, and every single game will be televised live.

It is a pleasant surprise that the NCAA has come to see this proposal as a better idea than the more lucrative 96-team proposal. This expansion is exponentially better and more well thought than the 96-team idea.

College basketball fans: be ready to rejoice. The NCAA Tournament is ready to improve for the better, and expand into a new era of the great postseason tournament, while keeping its roots of 60-some teams and 6 round of plays.

GREAT NEWS FOR ALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL FANS!


Comments
Mike Vorel
(Saturday, April 24 2010, 04:12 PM)

I swore to myself that if the tournament committee chose greed in favor of quality of the games and expanded to 96 teams I would stop watching the NCAA tournament, currently my favorite event in sports. So yes, I'm happy to say that order has been restored.


Rob Weil
(Thursday, April 22 2010, 05:35 PM)

Yes, excellent news this was the ideal situation I was hoping for. Hopefully those three aditional play in game are between small conferance schools that trip up in their postseason tournaments and do great in the regular season. I would imagine thats what will happen as I'm thinking each one seed will now play the winner of the sixteen seed playoff game in each region.


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