Why are we trying to ruin March Madness?
Chatter about expanding the NCAA March Madness men’s basketball tournament have been a thing for a while now, but things have never been quite this real. (RELATED: ‘Tremendous Rise In Antisemitism’: Auburn Hoops’ Bruce Pearl Gives His Reaction To Jewish Couple Getting Murdered)
Talks are currently happening between the NCAA and their TV network partners, who are CBS and Warner Bros. Discovery, with the goal being to expand March Madness by March 2026 from 68 schools to either 72 or 76. NCAA president Charlie Baker informed Front Office Sports of the situation Thursday morning while in Orlando, Florida, for Big 12 spring meetings.
“We’ve had good conversations with CBS and WBD,” said Baker. “Our goal here is to try to either get to yes or no sometime in the next few months, because there’s a lot of logistical work that would be associated with doing this, if we were to go down this road.”
NCAA president Charlie Baker is ready to expand men’s March Madness to up to 76 teams as soon as the 2026 tournament.
Baker implied a decision hinges on conversations with media rights holders CBS and TNT Sports.@_DavidRumsey is on-site in Orlando ⬇️https://t.co/g4WHexX4sV
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) May 29, 2025
This is nothing more than a money grab and participation trophy culture meeting for a nightmare, there’s absolutely no reason to extend the tournament outside of those two. But with money in particular, it’s like, “here we go again.”
Those pieces of paper ruin EVERYTHING, and … wait for it … here we go again.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
