NCAA Tournament STAYING at 68 — at least for now. Reax and next steps. Plus: post-vacation catch-up and summer movie recs!
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Read: Norlander on why expansion is unjustified
For the 2025 -2026 College Basketball season, sanity will reign and the NCAA Tournament will remain at 68 teams. For this year. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander will pod about it.
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| 0:45.2 | Welcome back, CBS Sports Eye on College basketball podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel finding. |
| 0:51.4 | Dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:53.4 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:54.7 | If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to that like button. |
| 0:57.3 | Shouts to Brandon Davies. |
| 0:58.3 | And if you haven't yet subscribed to CBS Sports College Basketball YouTube channel, |
| 1:02.0 | please also do that while you're here. |
| 1:04.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:05.2 | What we hope would be true is now official. |
| 1:08.4 | The NCAA tournament will not expand beyond 68 teams, at least as it pertains to the |
| 1:14.0 | 2025-26 season. |
| 1:16.6 | NCAA senior VP Dan Gavitt released a statement detailing the decision earlier today |
| 1:22.8 | after committee meetings in both Savannah, Georgia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:27.9 | He made it clear that discussions will continue in connection to the 2007 NCAA tournament and beyond. |
| 1:35.6 | But for now, at least, things will remain the same. |
| 1:38.6 | Norlander, your thoughts. |
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