KeaneyBlue - The URI Basketball Forum

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Between realignment, the portal, and now this, college sports is doing everything they can to kill my interest.

I'm actually in favor. If you're going to keep expanding the teams allowed to be Division 1 you're eventually going to have to expand how many teams make the tournament. Maybe expand the tournament and do away with the NIT?

For me, the most important point is the bolded part below.

The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee discussed expanding the NCAA Tournament field during its meeting this week, but adding to the 68-team bracket is “not imminent,” the committee said Thursday.

The tournament is about as perfect as it gets in sports, so I really hope they don't mess with it too much. A small expansion like the last time is no big deal to me. Either way, I'm glad it sounds like it's not something we need to worry about right now.

RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑10 months ago I'm actually in favor. If you're going to keep expanding the teams allowed to be Division 1 you're eventually going to have to expand how many teams make the tournament. Maybe expand the tournament and do away with the NIT?

I am as well , don’t see anything wrong with 90 or 96 in this current landscape

I am okay with leaving it at 68.
My biggest gripe is allowing teams from P5 to get an at-large with a losing conference record.

I don't think, regardless of how many D1 teams there are, that you 'have to' expand the tourney. It's not like you're going to be adding teams that might could win it all, but didn't make it in when it was 'only 68.' Doesn't matter to me though...make it 120 teams...the decision to expand or not comes down to 'cash money', not how anyone "feels" about the tournament. If/when those that make the rules think there's enough mo' money to be made by expanding, that's what will happen. I'm waiting for them to scale up the NBA "play-in" idea...where there's a pre-tourney tourney and the top x# from that qualify for the 'real' tourney.