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Is NCAA Tournament Expansion a Good Thing For Virginia Basketball?
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Is NCAA Tournament Expansion a Good Thing For Virginia Basketball?

Virginia Cavaliers On SI·Jackson Caudell·24 days ago
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Despite loads of fan pushback and negative reaction around college sports, the NCAA Tournament is going to be expanding to 76 teams. Instead of getting the "first four" games to start the NCAA Tournament on Tuesday's and Wednesday, there is going to be an opening round added and the lowest seeded automatic qualifier's and the lowest seeded at large teams are going to play each other. The winners of those games are going to advance to Thursday and Friday's opening round, which will just be the normal round of 64 that college basketball fans are used to. What does this mean for Virginia Basketball? The big takeaway that I have for the NCAA Tournament expanding is that it is naturally going to expand the bubble and more teams are going to be in. Virginia was safely in the field a season ago, but now that there are extra slots for at large teams, it is really hard to see the Cavaliers missing the tournament under Ryan Odom.…

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