005 - March Madness expansion is not wanted 042926
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
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March Madness expansion is not wanted
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back folks here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTCA online at the |
| 0:04.4 | big 1050.com. So it appears, and I touched on this earlier, it appears that NCAA tournament |
| 0:12.9 | expansion is upon us. The new number, 76 teams, this growth, this move, this expansion appears imminent. |
| 0:25.0 | And Ira, you know, you look at when people mess with a good thing, right? |
| 0:30.7 | Or they mess with a great thing, not just a good thing. |
| 0:34.1 | A better thing in the aftermath of NIL. |
| 0:37.1 | I mean, you talk about things that people criticize. |
| 0:39.2 | NIL has improved the college gain from the standpoint of the talent that stays around. |
| 0:46.8 | And so I don't think the NCAA tournament has been as good in years. And not just because Michigan won it. |
| 0:54.0 | But it's just a better product. And they, has been this good in years and not just because Michigan won it, |
| 0:57.2 | but it's just a better product. |
| 0:59.1 | And they got to mess with it. |
| 1:01.0 | Expand the 76 teams. |
| 1:03.6 | And you would think that there would be this financial boom, |
| 1:06.6 | this financial windfall that was the driving force. |
| 1:09.8 | And it turns out that's not even the case. |
| 1:12.8 | That's not even the case for the NCAA here. |
| 1:20.9 | That this is, on the other hand, being driven by the power conferences looking for more at-large bids. So we're looking at the bottom rung of these power conferences looking to get more teams in the NCAA. |
| 1:29.6 | They're not teams that are actually going to do anything. |
| 1:32.7 | Right. |
| 1:33.1 | So, Sam, what you're doing, you're adding eight teams into the middle of the field. |
| 1:39.1 | You're pushing two 14 teams down, 14 seeds down to 15. You're pushing some of your 15s down to 16 you're |
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