NCAA tourney possible growth ‘not impending’

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Personnel WriterJul 13, 2023, 11:43 AM ET

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• Basketball recruiting expert.
• Signed up with ESPN in 2014.
• Graduate of University of Delaware.The NCAA acknowledged Thursday

that it talked about possible growth of the NCAA tournament at the NCAA Department I Guys’s Basketball Committee conference this week, however the organization likewise said broadening the field is”not imminent.”In January, the NCAA Department I improvement committee released a report suggesting several changes to college sports, consisting of enabling 25 %of groups in sports sponsored by a minimum of 200 schools to compete in annual champion occasions. For males’s and ladies’s college basketball, that might potentially indicate a move from 68 teams to as lots of as 90 teams.The Department I board of directors authorized the suggestion later on that month.” The committee should be good stewards for the Department I Men’s Basketball Champion,”said Dan Gavitt, NCAA senior vice president of basketball.”They are dedicated to doing their due diligence looking at a couple of various models to make a notified choice that’s in the best interests of the championship, which might extremely well include deciding against expansion. “”The committee and personnel will continue studying alternatives and gathering feedback from various constituents, “Gavitt stated. “Whether the competition broadens or not stays to be seen.”The men’s NCAA competition broadened to 64 groups in 1985, later on going to 65 groups in 2001 and 68 groups in 2011. SWAC commissioner Charles McClelland will chair the committee beginning in September, and North

Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham was picked as vice chair and will then chair the committee in 2024-25.