associated with college or professional sports (or tons of other people and organizations) do anything.

** Edited by marcbvtgm at 10/13/2025, 9:48:11 AM ** Edited by marcbvtgm at 10/13/2025, 1:56:08 PM

Give every conference an auto-bid to their regular season champion and conference tournament champion The at-large bids would stay relatively the same. 32 teams get a bye in round 1 (the top 32 conference tournament champions)

champs in the lower tier/mid-major conferences losing in their conference tourneys happen a handful of times a year. I get it though—it devalues the season for them if they don’t get into the NCAAT. ** Edited by BackInTheBurg at 10/10/2025, 9:02:19 PM

Adding 32 teams and eliminating the NIT would make sense. I’ve always liked the NIT, but with teams declining bids and/or players opting out it doesn’t make much sense anymore to play it. I like GC’s idea about auto bids to regular season champs and tournament champs if we go to 96, but only if we stop playing an NIT. Another idea would be to leave the NCAA at 64, keep the NIT and make it a money tournament. Then teams and players would be happy to play in it for money. We need to stop playing events that players and teams are opting out of. Football bowls and basketball NIT. When the schools and or players don’t want to play in them anymore then we are just patching along obsolete events to keep playing them.