They should keep it at 68. As it stands currently, the regular season still means something. The teams on the bubble are teams truly on the bubble. Let them play their way into the tournament.
Expanding from 64 to 68 was already profoundly stupid. What is the purpose of those four play-in games? Aside from the schools involved, who pays attention to them? For bracket purposes, 64 is a nice number. Expanding to 68 was just a money grab.
@@zanti4132 You just answered your own question. Although, if they didn't expand from 64 to 68 then VCU and UCLA's Final Four run would've never happened. It's perfectly fine the way it is now.
A 96 team playoff would be useless. It makes winning less important and it’d eliminate the need for conference tournaments against the power 5 conferences. This shouldn’t even be a discussion.
@@syxxgames sorry but basically every team extended beyond 64 isn’t going to have a real shot at winning. Might be some cool Cinderella runs but nothing beyond that. Just seems like a way to get more money
Look if it would give most conferences two bids, I'd consider it, but to make bracket pools (which are the main selling point) more difficult just to make sure 15-14 Georgia Tech can get in after an 11th place finish in the ACC, not interested
One change I would make is that the automatic bid shouldn't be the conference tournament champion. It should be the regular season conference champion.
I agree the regular season champion is the best representative for the conference because it shows who was the best all season not who just got hot for a week
Each conference decides who is recognized as the conference champion. Each conference has decided that the tournament champion is the conference champion. The NCAA doesn't make that call.
@@grobble8954 That's how the '83 NC State Wolfpack made the NCAA Tournament that year by winning the ACC Tournament. Of course, they went on to win the National Championship.
I’m not going to say “never change,” but for now I vehemently oppose expansion. One point that only a few make (no one on this panel) is that another 32 teams make the post season in the NIT, and I don’t think that tournament should be destroyed.
Here's my idea, the Final Four is the big deal, have each team in the final four play each other once. Whoever has the best record and if there's a draw use point differential to decide who plays in the NCAA championship and then make the finals a best of 3. I think that'd add a nice layer to the tournament and you'd see some additional marquee matchup in the upper rungs as well as a good old fashion series from the 2 best teams.
The NCAA Tournament expanding will pretty much make the regular season mean nothing. I mean the NCAA has already done enough to the regular season to make it seem like it doesn't matter at all, which is a shame if you're a fan of the sport. For example, the 2019-2020 season that got cancelled. I know we didn't get a post season, but that year was incredible to that point, and they should've named a National Champion based on the season that was played. By not naming a champion based on what happened up to that point basically told every casual fan that November-February doesn't matter. Only a few weeks in March and the first weekend in April matter, so don't watch until then.
96? No. 80, but with regular season champs also getting auto bids? Yes. And give teams that win the “double” (reg. season & conf. tourney) a top 8 seed. You don’t extend the tourney any farther than its current length. It makes the regular season more important, and with a flexible bubble between 16 and 48 teams, Championship Week becomes more important.
I'm not in favor of expanding to 96. But I am in favor of doing something so that the 2nd tier of conferences (American, Atlantic 10, Mountain West, West Coast) get 2 in every year and more if they merit it. But in my opinion, Turner Sports (half of the partnership with CBS) wants their access cut off for more power conference teams because in their mind, only the big brand names generate ratings-the only thing they care about.
Expansion will kill public interest beyond the existing 68 for one reason: You won't be able to put a bracket on 1 piece of paper anymore. So there goes office pools and lots of people that casually follow.
@@blackout07blueGive me a break. Many of those teams that are left out have double digit losses and records that are like 18-13 or 19-14 or some such nonsense. If your argument is that you missed the field because you were like the 70th best team on paper, then you don't deserve a bid. When this expands to 96, you'll get teams complaining that they were left out for the 96th spot with a "strong" 17-15 record. And when the tournament expands (and it will), it will just be used to push more P5 teams into the tournament and keep out mid-majors.
The NCAA Tournament should be 96 teams. I would have the following parameters... 1. The Top 15 NET conferences sees both its conference champions and conference tournament champions automatically qualify for the NCAAs. All other conferences would only have its conference tournament champion receive an automatic qualifying berth. 2. Teams below .500 do not qualify unless it wins its conference tournament 3. Teams below .500 in conference play do not qualify unless it wins its conference tournament. 4. Teams with .500 conference records are ineligible for 1st Round byes unless it wins its conference tournament. Under this format the regular season would have significance...arguably even greater significance than now.
Expand it one year to every D1 team with a winning record is included. Contract it the next year to only include teams with an "X" or "Z" in their name. The third year include D II and D III. The fourth year, only teams located within 5 miles of Lakes Huron and Superior.
the SEC and B1G already ruined college football with the influence of the conferences. they’ll ruin college basketball with the super conferences every team is already in the NCAA tournament. just win you’re conference. expansion wasn’t needed in football and definitely isn’t needed in basketball
If you look at the CFP championship odds for 2024, the top 8 teams listed are SEC or Big Ten teams. I'll be surprised if there is a non-SEC or Big Ten national champion in the near future.
Well...might as well just have these teams just practice and do pick up games until March if we are on and on that it is Soooo exciting so let's expand it. Respect to Jay Bilas!
Yeah the number of teams keeps growing but there’s a point where it becomes too much. Everyone agrees the tournament is amazing as is. Don’t mess with it
I am not in favor of 96 at all. But if expanding going to be in place something here has to make sense but not 96. That’s just too much to follow through.
68 teams is plenty. Personally i think 64 like old tournament is plenty. Football should go stay at 12 teams as well. 12 is plenty. Personally i think a 8 team playoff in football would have been fine.
Can we eliminate double-digit loss programs from the 5 power conferences from qualifying, unless they are a tourney champ? Please. So we can make sure teams who deserve to be there are there. Expansion is ridiculous.
That blonde girl is very very expressive. I know she said hello to her mom and “Go UConn” and something about the number 6 and I think she wants to be married.
@@mrmojorisin8752 Yeah that must be what it is. My brain can’t comprehend that they have that many rings. ‘99, ‘04, and ‘23 were legit championships where they deserved it but ‘11 and ‘14 were the most laughable “championship teams” I’ve ever seen in the NCAAs since I’ve been alive. So my in my head, it’s like they only have 3 right now.
Well talk of expanding college football playoff, now the tournament, what are we doing? Trying to be nice to teams? Sorry but whoever cane up with this is stupid
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They should keep it at 68. As it stands currently, the regular season still means something. The teams on the bubble are teams truly on the bubble. Let them play their way into the tournament.
Expanding from 64 to 68 was already profoundly stupid. What is the purpose of those four play-in games? Aside from the schools involved, who pays attention to them? For bracket purposes, 64 is a nice number. Expanding to 68 was just a money grab.
@@zanti4132 You just answered your own question. Although, if they didn't expand from 64 to 68 then VCU and UCLA's Final Four run would've never happened. It's perfectly fine the way it is now.
A 96 team playoff would be useless. It makes winning less important and it’d eliminate the need for conference tournaments against the power 5 conferences. This shouldn’t even be a discussion.
Please, lord no. We can’t have teams like Virginia or Purdue losing to seeds in the 20s 💀💀💀
Haha and Virginia would
As a Virginia fan… yeah prob would one day
lol good one
@@sawyerhinck2471 yeah can you imagine Matt painter and Tony Bennett coaching against a 24th seed? Their fans have suffered enough
@@kendallandrews8691 that’s facts
The lowest seed to ever win the entire tournament was an 8 seed. Until even lower seeds start winning expansion doesn't make sense
how is 64 not enough?
because people love chaos ig
134 teams 😅
64 hasn’t been enough for a while, because the field is 68 now.
80 teams and 20 per region. I love it, don't @ me. I said what I said.🗣
@@syxxgames sorry but basically every team extended beyond 64 isn’t going to have a real shot at winning. Might be some cool Cinderella runs but nothing beyond that. Just seems like a way to get more money
At this point, they mind as well merge the NIT and NCAA tourney.
Look if it would give most conferences two bids, I'd consider it, but to make bracket pools (which are the main selling point) more difficult just to make sure 15-14 Georgia Tech can get in after an 11th place finish in the ACC, not interested
One change I would make is that the automatic bid shouldn't be the conference tournament champion. It should be the regular season conference champion.
I agree the regular season champion is the best representative for the conference because it shows who was the best all season not who just got hot for a week
@@daa_97Yeah, technically you could lose every regular season game and still have a shot of getting in. That possibility shouldn't exist.
Each conference decides who is recognized as the conference champion. Each conference has decided that the tournament champion is the conference champion. The NCAA doesn't make that call.
The conference tournament would be essentially meaningless other than a money grab and interest could decline if the auto bid wasn't on the line
@@grobble8954 That's how the '83 NC State Wolfpack made the NCAA Tournament that year by winning the ACC Tournament. Of course, they went on to win the National Championship.
"I just came from one to come here" Jay Bilas is the man.
Feels greedy
nah, 10 deserving get left out every year.
I’m not going to say “never change,” but for now I vehemently oppose expansion. One point that only a few make (no one on this panel) is that another 32 teams make the post season in the NIT, and I don’t think that tournament should be destroyed.
Here's my idea, the Final Four is the big deal, have each team in the final four play each other once. Whoever has the best record and if there's a draw use point differential to decide who plays in the NCAA championship and then make the finals a best of 3. I think that'd add a nice layer to the tournament and you'd see some additional marquee matchup in the upper rungs as well as a good old fashion series from the 2 best teams.
Why have a regular season then?
take a guess
The NCAA Tournament expanding will pretty much make the regular season mean nothing. I mean the NCAA has already done enough to the regular season to make it seem like it doesn't matter at all, which is a shame if you're a fan of the sport. For example, the 2019-2020 season that got cancelled. I know we didn't get a post season, but that year was incredible to that point, and they should've named a National Champion based on the season that was played. By not naming a champion based on what happened up to that point basically told every casual fan that November-February doesn't matter. Only a few weeks in March and the first weekend in April matter, so don't watch until then.
Have a tournament were every D1 team is invited, that would be awesome.
96? No. 80, but with regular season champs also getting auto bids? Yes. And give teams that win the “double” (reg. season & conf. tourney) a top 8 seed.
You don’t extend the tourney any farther than its current length. It makes the regular season more important, and with a flexible bubble between 16 and 48 teams, Championship Week becomes more important.
I'm not in favor of expanding to 96.
But I am in favor of doing something so that the 2nd tier of conferences (American, Atlantic 10, Mountain West, West Coast) get 2 in every year and more if they merit it.
But in my opinion, Turner Sports (half of the partnership with CBS) wants their access cut off for more power conference teams because in their mind, only the big brand names generate ratings-the only thing they care about.
Jay Williams always has the worst takes
They do leave out like 10 teams every year that deserve in.
@@blackout07blue Why is the number 10? Why not 12? 14? 16?
Stop expanding playoffs and March madness. It’s tough to get in and it’s exciting when they do. You’re destroying the game by doing this
I have never watched a single play in game since they started it. Teams already have enough chances to get in
Expansion will kill public interest beyond the existing 68 for one reason: You won't be able to put a bracket on 1 piece of paper anymore. So there goes office pools and lots of people that casually follow.
Bout to ruin march madness what a shame
Nah, they do leave out like 10 teams every year that deserve in.
@@blackout07blueGive me a break. Many of those teams that are left out have double digit losses and records that are like 18-13 or 19-14 or some such nonsense. If your argument is that you missed the field because you were like the 70th best team on paper, then you don't deserve a bid. When this expands to 96, you'll get teams complaining that they were left out for the 96th spot with a "strong" 17-15 record. And when the tournament expands (and it will), it will just be used to push more P5 teams into the tournament and keep out mid-majors.
Jay Billis made everyone feel stupid. Lol
Bilas makes me want to vomit,
THe answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Once again, Jay Bilas is the voice of reason.
The NCAA Tournament should be 96 teams. I would have the following parameters...
1. The Top 15 NET conferences sees both its conference champions and conference tournament champions automatically qualify for the NCAAs. All other conferences would only have its conference tournament champion receive an automatic qualifying berth.
2. Teams below .500 do not qualify unless it wins its conference tournament
3. Teams below .500 in conference play do not qualify unless it wins its conference tournament.
4. Teams with .500 conference records are ineligible for 1st Round byes unless it wins its conference tournament.
Under this format the regular season would have significance...arguably even greater significance than now.
Jay will got his job back and came back goofier than ever
Expand it one year to every D1 team with a winning record is included.
Contract it the next year to only include teams with an "X" or "Z" in their name.
The third year include D II and D III.
The fourth year, only teams located within 5 miles of Lakes Huron and Superior.
the SEC and B1G already ruined college football with the influence of the conferences. they’ll ruin college basketball with the super conferences
every team is already in the NCAA tournament. just win you’re conference. expansion wasn’t needed in football and definitely isn’t needed in basketball
If you look at the CFP championship odds for 2024, the top 8 teams listed are SEC or Big Ten teams. I'll be surprised if there is a non-SEC or Big Ten national champion in the near future.
Start the tournament right after Thanksgiving. Include all 3 college divisions, junior colleges, high schools and any YMCA men's league team.
96 teams !?!?!?! 🙃🙃🙃
96??? No way
Well...might as well just have these teams just practice and do pick up games until March if we are on and on that it is Soooo exciting so let's expand it. Respect to Jay Bilas!
DONT EXPAND IT!!!
Thank you Jay for calling Jason stupid. I agree he’s dead wrong as usual. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Such weird behavior to compare it to going to a club... what is with her obsession with partying?
Needs more teams, so many get left out!
Yeah the number of teams keeps growing but there’s a point where it becomes too much. Everyone agrees the tournament is amazing as is. Don’t mess with it
AMEN MR . BILAS ITS UNBELIEVABLE DA ONLY THING DAT MATTERS NOW IS MONEY WAT A DISSAPPOINTMENT SMH
I am not in favor of 96 at all. But if expanding going to be in place something here has to make sense but not 96. That’s just too much to follow through.
Adding a few more "rat tails" to the bracket is not some massive change that could spoil the party.
68 teams is plenty. Personally i think 64 like old tournament is plenty. Football should go stay at 12 teams as well. 12 is plenty. Personally i think a 8 team playoff in football would have been fine.
I’d say no I think that the 68 format is perfect and we already have the conference tournaments on top of it anyways leave it as is I say.
I say: leave well-enough alone!!!
Might as well expand to 96. It’s not going to matter my team still ain’t making it to the Final Four.
Can we eliminate double-digit loss programs from the 5 power conferences from qualifying, unless they are a tourney champ? Please. So we can make sure teams who deserve to be there are there. Expansion is ridiculous.
You nailed it...totally agree!
That's gonna be like half the top 25 this year. Would be a terrible decision imo.
Doesn't matter to me!!! The NAACP basketball tournament is the greatest thing since pop rocks.
Cinderella Teams licking their chops if more teams get added to the tournament 😂
Yeah. Tell em Jay.
Bilas doesn’t miss
That blonde girl is very very expressive. I know she said hello to her mom and “Go UConn” and something about the number 6 and I think she wants to be married.
Could the 6 mean UConn is going after its 6th championship?
@@mrmojorisin8752 Yeah that must be what it is. My brain can’t comprehend that they have that many rings. ‘99, ‘04, and ‘23 were legit championships where they deserved it but ‘11 and ‘14 were the most laughable “championship teams” I’ve ever seen in the NCAAs since I’ve been alive. So my in my head, it’s like they only have 3 right now.
Expansion is good but how much, idk.
68 is more than enough.
I thought it was stupid when they decided to go from 8 team tournament to 16..
I start watching when they get to the sweet 16
Who asked?
@@MrMiniPancakes who ask you to ask me who asked?
@@Dontae-uw4qo who asked?
@@MrMiniPancakes ya who ask?
We don’t need more teams, we need less teams from power conferences.
Limit conferences to 6 teams in the tournament.
It's all about more gambling
Well talk of expanding college football playoff, now the tournament, what are we doing? Trying to be nice to teams? Sorry but whoever cane up with this is stupid
ll the NCAA is looking at is The MONEY
No one supports expansion. So, it will probably happen.
AMEN!
I agree with Jay Williams
jay williams. walking L
Love Jay Bilas, JWill is terrible
Nothing personal, but Jay doesn’t have a clue. It’s that puke education working.