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This is coming up because the NCAA can walk away from the current contract with CBS and the expanded tournament would serve to get a bigger contract. I would boycott the first round of the expanded tournament. This really is a sop to the BCS conferences so their second to last member can get it if it has an above .500 record.
1 posted on 03/02/2010 2:01:00 PM PST by C19fan
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they need to keep this at 64 teams PERIOD. Don’t mess with perfection.


2 posted on 03/02/2010 2:04:34 PM PST by oust the louse (The Country has a very bad BO problem!)
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If they expand the field to 400 teams North Carolina might make it.


3 posted on 03/02/2010 2:05:16 PM PST by rsobin
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You are already down to the teams which have no chance to win. Just imagine adding 31 teams worse than Alabama State (last year's play-in game loser). All I expect it would do is shake up the 9-16 seeds and tire them out a little so they are less likely to beat a 1-8 seed team in the new second round.
4 posted on 03/02/2010 2:06:39 PM PST by KarlInOhio (New Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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As Whitney Houston would say, Hell to the no.

The symmetry of the 64 teams is perfect. The only thing in sports that would be worse is adding a 33rd team to the NFL.


5 posted on 03/02/2010 2:07:03 PM PST by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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I’m sure I’m in the minority but I think its already too big. I think all conference winners should make it plus some of the very best second-place teams, but that’s it. If you can’t even be in the top 2 of your conference you don’t deserve a shot at the National Title. Moreover, do away with the conference tournaments.


6 posted on 03/02/2010 2:10:27 PM PST by dinoparty
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They shouldn’t, but they will. Everybody wants mo money.


8 posted on 03/02/2010 2:12:50 PM PST by discostu (wanted: brick, must be thick and well kept)
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It’s nice to see the NCAA once again looking out for college student’s education by giving them yet another game to practice for and perform in.

The NCAA Division I revenue-generating sports get many youth, primarily African-Americans, to toil away full-time for free, for someone else’s profit. Sound familiar?


10 posted on 03/02/2010 2:38:59 PM PST by Yossarian
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Go UAB Blazers


13 posted on 03/02/2010 2:54:36 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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