Should the NCAA Go To 96 Teams

[GooooMarquette]

I think this pretty much nails the stupidity of the first four...

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24490948/the-first-four-a-play-in-game-and-insult

No further expansion...won't make the product better, nor help crown a champion.

Yep.  Like he says, no matter what the NCAA calls them, everybody knows that they're play-in games to get to the real dance.

[Class71]

By definition the teams that earn automatic bids deserve their bids.  The best part about the NCAA tournament is that literally every team in Div-1 has a shot at winning it, however slim that chance may be.  It's the biggest reason I hate NCAA football - in a given year there are basically 20-30 teams that have a chance to win a National Championship, the rest of the teams can win every game and not even have a chance.  You can argue that Div-1 should be reduced in size all you want, but the automatic bids for every conference remaining in Div-1 MUST stay.

No worries. I don't vote on it.

[bradley center bat]

If you want in the ncaa tourney,  win your conference tourney!

[bilsu]

68 is better than 65, but 64 is better than 68. However, I think they should change the seeding. The top seeds should go to teams that win both their regular season and their conference title. Rank the conferences before the start of the conference tournaments. Than slot the double champions in the tourament according to their conference rankings. Virginia, Florida and Wichita St are all double winners. I not sure if Arizona beat UCLA in the championship game.  If Arizona lost to UCLA they would not be a number one seed, but probably be no worse than a 3. The big difference would be the little guy that pulls off the double. Not likely to get a number one seed, but could have a chance at a two or three depending on how many conference champions lose. It would make a big difference to them getting a three seed vs a 16. MU probably would of lost the first game of the last three touraments, if they were thrown in the 16th spot. This seeding would make the conference tournament championship more valuable to the good teams and would be a great award for the double champions.

[brandx]

This I agree with. Those auto-bids for the WAC and Northeast are pretty brutal.

Yeah.. I'd much rather see Duke play Illinois instead of Mercer

The great appeal are the matchups between the power teams and the little guy. Why would you want to eliminate that.

And, BTW, how about all them 5-stars on Duke? We need us some of them.

[leever]

Yeah.. I'd much rather see Duke play Illinois instead of Mercer

The great appeal are the matchups between the power teams and the little guy. Why would you want to eliminate that.

And, BTW, how about all them 5-stars on Duke? We need us some of them.

Of course Duke is going to win.  They are the higher seed.  And they are favored, too!  Bet the ranch.

Or, maybe it's a crapshoot.