About a year ago there was serious discussion about expanding the NCAA basketball tournament from 65 teams to 96 teams this was a hot topic during spring then was abandoned by the committee. There was some hot debate that went along with it and alot of people were screaming at each other for expansion and anti expansion.
It was a curious debate in that I feel like the call for expansion was an overreaction to what happened that season in basketball. The traditional powers like North Carolina, Connecticut, UCLA, Indiana (but thats nothing new), Arizona, and even though Kentucky made it last year they struggled a couple years ago. These teams all either didn't make it or have had trouble lately. College basketball doesn't make near as much money as football but the traditional powers generate pretty good revenue for the tournament. They want to prevent this by expanding the tournament so just about all the teams that are the money makers get in the tournament.
The problem with this is that they way it will affect the regular season. Regular season basketball is already pretty irrelevant just because there is too many games to figure out what we already know for the most part which is what teams make it. The board did eventually expand the tournament to 68 teams which made a lot of programs very happy but this is messing with something that's already perfect.
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