Post by Mod City on Apr 1, 2010 16:38:02 GMT -5
I was going to this in the thread for this year's tournament, but it really belongs in its own. It looks like the NCAA is planning to move forward with expanding the current field of 65 teams in the men's basketball championship to 96.
www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2010-03-30-ncaa-tournament-expansion_N.htm
As a long-time college basketball fan, I'm dead set against this. In fact, they'd be better off cutting the tournament field in half than expanding it like this. It will reduce the prestige of the tournament and needlessly draw out an already near-perfect system. That, of course, is my opinion.
It's obviously a money grab by the NCAA. Every team in the country already has a chance to make the big tournament by winning their conference tournament (conference tourney champs get an automatic bid). Even the Ivy League, who doesn't hold a tournament, gets an automatic bid for its regular-season champion.
It's ugly. First they ruin college football (or at least made it worse than it already was by changing to the BCS), and now they're trying to do it with college hoops.
www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2010-03-30-ncaa-tournament-expansion_N.htm
As a long-time college basketball fan, I'm dead set against this. In fact, they'd be better off cutting the tournament field in half than expanding it like this. It will reduce the prestige of the tournament and needlessly draw out an already near-perfect system. That, of course, is my opinion.
It's obviously a money grab by the NCAA. Every team in the country already has a chance to make the big tournament by winning their conference tournament (conference tourney champs get an automatic bid). Even the Ivy League, who doesn't hold a tournament, gets an automatic bid for its regular-season champion.
It's ugly. First they ruin college football (or at least made it worse than it already was by changing to the BCS), and now they're trying to do it with college hoops.
