A new era of college basketball has begun—kicking and screaming. The NCAA tournaments will expand to 76 teams in 2027, with the men’s and women’s basketball committees voting unanimously to expand the tournaments , per CBS Sports. The proposal now heads to further committee votes, as well as the Division I cabinet on May 22 and the NCAA’s Board of Governors after that. The development follows years of speculation, and marks the first addition of teams to the men’s tournament since 2011 and the women’s tournament since 2022. Instead of eight teams playing four games on the first two days of the tournaments, 24 teams will now play 12 games. Those games will be split between Dayton, Ohio—the traditional home of the old First Four—and a location outside of the Eastern Time Zone to be determined. In March, Sports Illustrated ’s Kevin Sweeney laid out what a 76-team version of the 2026 men’s basketball tournament would have looked like.…