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Don’t Get Worked Up About the NCAA Tournament Expanding to 76 Teams
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Don’t Get Worked Up About the NCAA Tournament Expanding to 76 Teams

SI·Jimmy Traina·about 1 month ago
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1. There are very few things in sports as universally loved as the NCAA tournament. It is the perfect event. So, upon learning that the men’s and women’s fields are set to expand from 68 teams to 76, it would make sense that we’d freak out and rip NCAA officials for tinkering with something that does not need tinkering. Sports and leagues across the board love to mess with stuff for no reason (except money) and make the overall experience worse for fans (hello, streaming!). This is not the case here with the field ballooning up to 76 schools. Don’t freak out. Calm down. Pete Thamel from ESPN broke the news on Tuesday that the expansion is all set to happen. This was the very last line in his story : “The traditional 64-team men's team bracket would still begin Thursday and look much the same.…

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