Comments on: CBS Source: 96-Team Tournament “Will Happen”

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:03:41 +0000

Finally a way for a 16-seed to win a game. Why not have a 10-12 game regular season- all conference games. Then start playoffs. Top ACC team against last PAC-10 team and so on until a field of 64 is set.

By: smart man

smart man — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:21:55 +0000

I saw three or six corn butts the other day, and let me tell you they were DELICIOUS.

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:22:03 +0000

So NCAA: How do you propose you televise 96 teams. You can’t even televise the 64 teams correctly because you have your dumb - *&^(ss favorites and won’t show all of the teams in all of the areas. When watching the tournament folks should be able to watch who they want to watch regardless of where they live. People should be able to watch their team ,say the Big Ten outside of the Big Ten viewing area, not be stuck with watching Duke play Lehigh unless you want to watch these two teams. You should be given a choice on what team you want to watch instead of being forced to watch what the CBS executives want you to watch.

By: j-man

j-man — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:05:49 +0000

stop the cryin and whining—when field was expanded to 64,people cried–$$$$$$ and thats what makes the NCAA happy… D1 football playoff??? NEVER….college prezzes will see to that–it is what it is….live with it

By: Mario Donato

Mario Donato — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:42:11 +0000

Mario Donato

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Mario Donato

By: DANNY B

DANNY B — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:32:13 +0000

The main reason most qualified teams are left out is because of the automatic bid for winning a conference tourney bid. The teams that had a bad day for the conference tourney championship find themselves in the NIT. The NCAA needs to do away with automatic conference bid, and the other great idea of 96 teams. I personally will lose interest in a 96 team tourney and will focus only on conference tournament championships.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:22:20 +0000

We all know what this is about. It is about allowing De Paul and Virginia to get first round byes in the NCAA. After all, EVERYBODY knows that the Big East and the ACC are the only conferences that can play basketball (insert sarcasm here).

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:12:32 +0000

The idea of going to 96 teams is absoluty stupid and shouldn’t be done. The only reason you would expand it is to make more money which might not happen because people will stop watching the games. There would be to many games and people just won’t watch them all and plus everybody would be in the field. It would also eliminate the purpose behind the the regular season which is to earn a tournament bid. So why fix something that isn’t broke. Besides what are going to do put all of the teams from the power confernces like the ACC and Big East in execept the bottom two or something. That would still leave room for a bunch of the Mid Majors too and can those schools really compete with the power schools on a regular basis. So please don’t wreck my favorite sport’s event to watch every year.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:11:19 +0000

These NCAA idiots want they’re money but they’ll lose soo much interest. 65/64 teams is enough!!!! You don’t need anymore teams. It’s just the world goes…benefits the few and takes away from the many.

These NCAA guys are just illogical. The NCAA Basketball Tourney IS NOT broken. DO NOT FIX IT. NCAA Football IS BROKEN. FIX THAT. The BCS is junk!! You’ll get waaaaay more interest in football if you put in the tournament system in college football for the top 8 teams. But still…the idiots up in the NCAA are gonna lose interest if they expand to 96 teams. Rediculous.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:58:51 +0000

Aww Kris ya beat me too it… Bring them all - 347 teams, would be like NBA or NHL playoffs LOL