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NCAA Tournament expansion will help Syracuse hoops as it looks to end postseason drought
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NCAA Tournament expansion will help Syracuse hoops as it looks to end postseason drought

Syracuse Orange On SI·Brad Bierman·about 1 month ago
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Back in February, NCAA president Charlie Baker made it clear that his vision was to grow the number of March Madness participants (both the men's and women's tourneys), expanding the brackets as soon as the upcoming 2026-27 season, adding either four or eight teams. We now know that the field of 68 is going to expand to 76 next March, with the addition of another set of games in what is currently known as the "First Four" round, but may have to be changed to the "First 12" or the "First Dozen." Those changes are expected to be approved by various NCAA committees by the end of May. The games over the first week of the Tourney played on Tuesday-Wednesday have been staged since 2011 at Dayton, and that great college hoops city will likely to continue to serve as a host of what moving forward would be six games (two days of tripleheaders), along with a new second site to host another set of six games (Las Vegas?).…

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