With the 2010 NCAA Tournament wrapping a couple of weeks, there is already talk about the 2011 Tournament. This talk is about expanding the current field of 65 teams to a whopping 96 team field. In my personal opinion this would be a huge mistake for college basketball and would just ruin the perfect tournament. The popular saying of "Don't Fix what is not broken" comes to mind when I think of the expansion but expanding the to 96 teams would bring in a ton of money for the NCAA. I know money is a necessity to every business and organization, but it is not everything. If they do expand a lot of teams would make this prestigious tournament when they do not deserve to be in it. For example teams like North Carolina and UCONN would have made the field even though they had terrible years. This tournament is suppose to have the top notch teams in the country and not mediocre teams and I believe that's what makes this tournament special. If they do expand that special feeling that comes with it will be destroyed. This is the one case that fewer is better.
Although we would not have to listen to those ten or so teams that moan and complain every year because they got cut for whatever reason I do agree that a 96 team tournament would be overkill. This expansion would make the first two weeks almost boring watching number 1 seeded teams knock off a few teams that would barely have winning records. The NIT is there for a reason.
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