How would a 96-team tournament work in the NCAA?
Question by jwhouk: How would a 96-team tournament work in the NCAA?
There has been a lot of talk in this area expanding the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament from the contemporary 65 teams (with one play-in game) to a somewhat ridiculous 96-team tournament. How just so would they pull this off? Any thoughts (other than, of course, not responsibility it).
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Answer by Mac
I suppose seeds 1 through 8 would all get a bye to the Closing 64. While seeds 9-16 would all have to play an additional round.
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24 teams in each region
Seeds 1-8 in each region get first round byes while seeds 9-24 play a first round game.
Seed 9 would play 24, 10/23, 11/22 etc. and the next round would pick up where it does now (1 would play 16/17, 2 would play 15/18, 3 would play 14/19, etc.)
It’s not a excellent thought IMO. Its borderline too many teams as it is now.
Just like they pull it off right now only harder to find consequences of games played