NCAA committee recommends basketball tournaments expand to bracket of 90 teams in 24-25

[LadyStanley]

NCAA committee recommendation would expand basketball tournaments to 90 teams

The recommendation is seeking expansion for the 2024-25 season.

sports.yahoo.com

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[Big Z Man 1990]

There's even more money to be made by auctioning off over-the-air simulcast rights to Turner's March Madness games in markets with a rooting interest in the participating teams. Obviously stations that carry CBS would not be eligible.

 

[ForsbergForever]

FIFA expanding the World Cup field, NCAA following suit, the massive promotion of sports betting, advertising rapidly expanding with placements now on uniforms and digital dasher boards rotating ads... I feel like the sports world is running towards the abyss.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Yuck. All I can really say to this idea.

I’m sure that the NCAA will make a boatload of dough, so that’s all that really matters.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Does this not devalue regular season?

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

I'm beyond sick of every sport thinking about expanding and just destroying the quality of games

 

[daver]

I'm beyond sick of every sport thinking about expanding and just destroying the quality of games

This has been said since the dawn of pro sports. Too bad the money keeps rolling in and will continue to do so in the immediate future it seems.

 

[daver]

FIFA expanding the World Cup field, NCAA following suit, the massive promotion of sports betting, advertising rapidly expanding with placements now on uniforms and digital dasher boards rotating ads... I feel like the sports world is running towards the abyss.

It could be argued that the first time anyone got paid to play a sport it has been running towards the abyss. The idea of amateurism, in its truest form, has long been dead. Balancing competition vs. unbridled capitalist encroachment is now seemingly a losing battle.

That noone, or at least a sizable chunk of the consumer market, gives a shit, will keep it moving in this direction.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

This has been said since the dawn of pro sports. Too bad the money keeps rolling in and will continue to do so in the immediate future it seems.

Maybe is just me but it seems today everyone is racing to expand and the past the would let some years

 

[daver]

Maybe is just me but it seems today everyone is racing to expand and the past the would let some years

Noone wants to miss out on any gambling dollars probably. Sports and gambling, what could go wrong?

 

[Flukeshot]

While I'm not a fan of NCAA sports and won't be watching anyway, the article does include some positives.

Recommendations include (paraphrased to not copy too much of the article):

-2+yrs of post graduate medical coverage for injured players
-Mental health treatment
-Degree completion funds for 10 years
-Additional forms of counseling (personal/career/finance)

I am a propionate of student athletes so if expanding the playoffs to 90 teams means players get additional compensation, than sure.

 

[HisIceness]

Why stop at 90? Let's get all 200 D1 teams in there!

Unreal.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

That being said, I hope that if this happens we see more midmajors let in versus power conference teams.

As a fan of a Big Ten team, sorry, but a midmajor conference's second best team has a better argument to make the dance than the 8th-10th or so best teams in an individual power conference.

But there's more money up here, so we know how the expansion will work.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Noone wants to miss out on any gambling dollars probably. Sports and gambling, what could go wrong?

I get that but still as a fan is so upseting since we can't do anything except not watching

 

[joelef]

It could be argued that the first time anyone got paid to play a sport it has been running towards the abyss. The idea of amateurism, in its truest form, has long been dead. Balancing competition vs. unbridled capitalist encroachment is now seemingly a losing battle.

That noone, or at least a sizable chunk of the consumer market, gives a shit, will keep it moving in this direction.

Amateurism was created to keep poor people from playing sports

 

[golfortennis1]

Amateurism was created to keep poor people from playing sports

Ding ding ding. Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

[joelef]

Amateurism is the reason why there two rugby codes and never got. To the popularity of soccer in england

 

[adsfan]

NCAA committee recommendation would expand basketball tournaments to 90 teams

The recommendation is seeking expansion for the 2024-25 season.

sports.yahoo.com

The all powerful dollar

How many of those 90 will play in Dayton?

Sixteen who get cut down to four?

That is an awfully big jump from 64 / 68!