NCAA Tournament expansion as early as next season.

[Nukem2]

Have we ever had any basketball players go onto dental school?

No, but Larry Hatchett from the 80s became a urologist......

[Scoop Snoop]

No, but Larry Hatchett from the 80s became a urologist......

He was really pissed that the NBA showed no interest in him.

[cheebs09]

There's rumors the Portland Jail Blazers had some of the best looking teeth in the NBA.

[Shaka Shart]

Maybe from the women's team? After all for every 43 men admitted there are 57 women admitted to  Marquette's Dental School of Criminology.

Studying the dentists is a good career

[Hards Alumni]

I've been tilting at the 80-team expansion windmill for 3 years, and after the season ended I put together a 12-page expansion plan to go to 80 teams. By coincidence, I was finally ready to send it out today, the same day Charlie Baker talked about 72 or 76 (both of which would be mistakes, IMO).

I have an email list of a little over 2,000 league officials, athletics administrators, and coaches that I've compiled over the past couple weeks. I am in the process of sending my expansion plan out to all of them today. They'll probably bull ahead to a poor decision before I'm able to get any traction, but hoping I can get the discussion pushed in a positive direction (which 80 would be).

A 12 page plan?  You really only need 5 points, not 12 pages.

[Daniel]

A 12 page plan?  You really only need 5 points, not 12 pages.

The first eleven pages are...
 We make more money, we make more money.... Etc then the. 4 other points

[MU1in77]

Have we ever had any basketball players go onto dental school?

Jay Schauer was one of the best players in Wisconsin during the 1950's (South Milwaukee High School). He played only one year at Marquette before going to dental school.

[Shaka Shart]

Jay Schauer was one of the best players in Wisconsin during the 1950's (South Milwaukee High School). He played only one year at Marquette before going to dental school.

Praying for him

[CTWarrior]

The event wouldn't be watered down at all, the field would be strengthened.

Adding 12 teams with a combined 0% chance of winning the tournament does not strengthen the field.  Just my opinion.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Adding 12 teams with a combined 0% chance of winning the tournament does not strengthen the field.  Just my opinion.

As Brew has demonstrated, it strengthens the bottom quarter of the field when you get to the round of 64.

That makes it more difficult for top teams.  But upsets weaken the field when you get to the later rounds.

[Billy Hoyle]

Adding 12 teams with a combined 0% chance of winning the tournament does not strengthen the field.  Just my opinion.

no more than eight teams will or even can be added, unless the basketball season starts a week earlier. The NCAA tournament window can't be extended because of the Masters. The only solution right now is two more games on Tuesday and Wednesday, probably somewhere out west like Salt Lake.

[brewcity77]

Adding 12 teams with a combined 0% chance of winning the tournament does not strengthen the field.  Just my opinion.

It depends on how they are added, but on Thursday/Friday it's a mathematical certainty that the field would be stronger. It's similar to how eliminating two 16-seeds in play in games and shifting 15s to the 16-line, 14s to the 15-line, etc ended at the 11-seed at-large play-in winners who ultimately replaced the 16s.

The teams added would all metrically be stronger than the teams on the 14-16 lines. By eliminating 6 more 15/16 seeds, it would remove 8 of the 16 weakest teams (typically 100-250 in metric rankings) & effectively replacing them with teams in the 35-70 range on the 11 & 13 lines.

It would 100% strengthen the R64 & beyond, and we've already seen two such teams (2011 VCU, 2021 UCLA) reach the Final Four so it's safe to say the chance one of them eventually wins it is greater than 0%.