The news is out and it's not a big surprise. The greedy people at the NCAA are going to destroy the sacred basketball tournament for the sake of a few dollars or should I say a ton of dollars. The NCAA announced that they are very close to expanding to 96 teams. They claim its not set in stone yet but they even have a new bracket drawn up. This new bracket looks one of Einsteins theorems. The NCAA claims that the tournament will last the same amount of time as the current tournament which will be made to happen by giving 32 teams a first round bye. BOY, that really makes me wanna watch the first round of brick layers run up and down the court. Can you imagine a number 90 seed playing the number 35 seed? What a dumper of a game.
Of course, the addition of more teams pretty much kills the long standing NIT Tournament. The NIT was started in 1938 and has seen many great players such as Walt Frazier, Lenny Wilkins, Ralph Sampson and Reggie Miller play in its games. Over the past few years, the NIT has been relegated to a 2nd chance tournament for the teams that don't make the NCAA Tourney. It's rich history is being cast aside for the almighty dollar. That really stinks.
The bottom line is the NCAA is going to ruin the tournament much as it has with all of the football bowl games. Teams that have no business moving on to "post season" play will be doing just that. I say keep it the same of just expand it by 12 more teams. With the expansion on the horizon, I can only think about how screwed up my bracket will be next year. It will take me a week to figure out who I want to pick.
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