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Don't mess with the success of 65.(COLLEGE BASKETBALL)
If I were running the meeting, it would go something like this:
Last item on the agenda: Consideration of expanding the NCAA Tournament field.
Motion: Let's not and say we did. Can I get a second? All in favor? The ayes have it. Can we go hit Del Frisco's for dinner?
When the NCAA men's basketball committee convenes in Orlando later this month, that's how it should handle the suggestion from some coaches to increase the size of the tournament field from 65 teams.
Given that the field hasn't expanded, for all practical purposes, in more than two decades, incoming committee chair Gary Waiters, the athletic director at Princeton, figures a study isn't unreasonable. "There's no action that's imminent on this," he says. "You have to look at it with a certain amount of care."
Coaches argue that increased parity in Division I means more tournament-quality teams and, therefore, more tournament-quality teams are being excluded. There is evidence in support of that contention:
1) George Mason reached the 2006 Final Four.
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