On Thursday, the NCAA Tournament received approval to expand from 68 to 76 teams, yet the nagging question persists -- no matter how big this event becomes, what's it going to take for the University of Washington men's basketball team to play in it again? The Huskies haven't shared in March Madness for seven long seasons now, and only once over the past 15 years. This is an embarrassing development for a UW athletic department that trumpets its teams' postseason achievements from rowing to men's soccer to women's softball. As coaches Lorenzo Romar, Mike Hopkins and now Danny Sprinkle have found out, you just can't build a basketball program with lasting success without an occasional flirtation with an impossible seeding in some out of the way site. Yet it sure beats not going year after year after year. LeJuan Watts (3) plays in the NCAA Tournament for Texas Tech against Alabama in March.…