Tourney Should Stay At 65
After watching the NCAA basketball tournament championship Monday night, I was left without the feeling of there being a national champion.Duke won the game, but I feel like Butler won the tournament.The tournament that had 65 teams.Talk has been circulating around the NCAA about expanding the tournament to include 96 teams.Why would the NCAA want to do that?College basketball already suffers enough by beginning the season while football season is still going on.The regular season is also usually looked over until February when people are looking up statistics for teams they think will be playing in late March.With the expansion to 96 teams, the tournament would lose the lore it has held since the previous expansions in 1985 to 64 and 2001 to 65.They say the tournament will keep the three-week format, but would add another round.The top 32 seeds would also get byes, negating any chance for a first-round upset of a No.