NCAA Tournaments get supersized makeovers that could affect Cinderella and your brackets
The NCAA Tournament is getting a supersized makeover, a long-expected expansion that many basketball fans should notice and pay attention to beginning next season.
The sanctioning body increased the fields for its men’s and women’s March Madness tournaments to 76 teams.
That means there will be eight more games — 12 total involving 24 teams — squeezed into the highly popular bracket without substantially changing the overall format.
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