Please, lord no. We can’t have teams like Virginia or Purdue losing to seeds in the 20s 💀💀💀

A 96 team playoff would be useless. It makes winning less important and it’d eliminate the need for conference tournaments against the power 5 conferences. This shouldn’t even be a discussion.

They should keep it at 68. As it stands currently, the regular season still means something. The teams on the bubble are teams truly on the bubble. Let them play their way into the tournament.

The lowest seed to ever win the entire tournament was an 8 seed. Until even lower seeds start winning expansion doesn't make sense

how is 64 not enough?

Look if it would give most conferences two bids, I'd consider it, but to make bracket pools (which are the main selling point) more difficult just to make sure 15-14 Georgia Tech can get in after an 11th place finish in the ACC, not interested

One change I would make is that the automatic bid shouldn't be the conference tournament champion. It should be the regular season conference champion.

"I just came from one to come here" Jay Bilas is the man.

At this point, they mind as well merge the NIT and NCAA tourney.

Feels greedy

Why have a regular season then?

I’m not going to say “never change,” but for now I vehemently oppose expansion. One point that only a few make (no one on this panel) is that another 32 teams make the post season in the NIT, and I don’t think that tournament should be destroyed.

Here's my idea, the Final Four is the big deal, have each team in the final four play each other once. Whoever has the best record and if there's a draw use point differential to decide who plays in the NCAA championship and then make the finals a best of 3. I think that'd add a nice layer to the tournament and you'd see some additional marquee matchup in the upper rungs as well as a good old fashion series from the 2 best teams.

Jay Williams always has the worst takes

The NCAA Tournament expanding will pretty much make the regular season mean nothing. I mean the NCAA has already done enough to the regular season to make it seem like it doesn't matter at all, which is a shame if you're a fan of the sport. For example, the 2019-2020 season that got cancelled. I know we didn't get a post season, but that year was incredible to that point, and they should've named a National Champion based on the season that was played. By not naming a champion based on what happened up to that point basically told every casual fan that November-February doesn't matter. Only a few weeks in March and the first weekend in April matter, so don't watch until then.

Have a tournament were every D1 team is invited, that would be awesome.

I'm not in favor of expanding to 96. But I am in favor of doing something so that the 2nd tier of conferences (American, Atlantic 10, Mountain West, West Coast) get 2 in every year and more if they merit it. But in my opinion, Turner Sports (half of the partnership with CBS) wants their access cut off for more power conference teams because in their mind, only the big brand names generate ratings-the only thing they care about.

96? No. 80, but with regular season champs also getting auto bids? Yes. And give teams that win the “double” (reg. season & conf. tourney) a top 8 seed. You don’t extend the tourney any farther than its current length. It makes the regular season more important, and with a flexible bubble between 16 and 48 teams, Championship Week becomes more important.

I have never watched a single play in game since they started it. Teams already have enough chances to get in

Needs more teams, so many get left out!

96 teams !?!?!?! 🙃🙃🙃

Expand it one year to every D1 team with a winning record is included. Contract it the next year to only include teams with an "X" or "Z" in their name. The third year include D II and D III. The fourth year, only teams located within 5 miles of Lakes Huron and Superior.

The NCAA Tournament should be 96 teams. I would have the following parameters... 1. The Top 15 NET conferences sees both its conference champions and conference tournament champions automatically qualify for the NCAAs. All other conferences would only have its conference tournament champion receive an automatic qualifying berth. 2. Teams below .500 do not qualify unless it wins its conference tournament 3. Teams below .500 in conference play do not qualify unless it wins its conference tournament. 4. Teams with .500 conference records are ineligible for 1st Round byes unless it wins its conference tournament. Under this format the regular season would have significance...arguably even greater significance than now.

Start the tournament right after Thanksgiving. Include all 3 college divisions, junior colleges, high schools and any YMCA men's league team.

96??? No way

Well...might as well just have these teams just practice and do pick up games until March if we are on and on that it is Soooo exciting so let's expand it. Respect to Jay Bilas!

Expansion will kill public interest beyond the existing 68 for one reason: You won't be able to put a bracket on 1 piece of paper anymore. So there goes office pools and lots of people that casually follow.

Yeah the number of teams keeps growing but there’s a point where it becomes too much. Everyone agrees the tournament is amazing as is. Don’t mess with it

Once again, Jay Bilas is the voice of reason.

AMEN!

Such weird behavior to compare it to going to a club... what is with her obsession with partying?

Yeah. Tell em Jay.

THe answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Jay will got his job back and came back goofier than ever

I say: leave well-enough alone!!!

I’d say no I think that the 68 format is perfect and we already have the conference tournaments on top of it anyways leave it as is I say.

AMEN MR . BILAS ITS UNBELIEVABLE DA ONLY THING DAT MATTERS NOW IS MONEY WAT A DISSAPPOINTMENT SMH

Expansion is good but how much, idk.

I am not in favor of 96 at all. But if expanding going to be in place something here has to make sense but not 96. That’s just too much to follow through.

DONT EXPAND IT!!!

Adding a few more "rat tails" to the bracket is not some massive change that could spoil the party.

Might as well expand to 96. It’s not going to matter my team still ain’t making it to the Final Four.

Jay Billis made everyone feel stupid. Lol

68 teams is plenty. Personally i think 64 like old tournament is plenty. Football should go stay at 12 teams as well. 12 is plenty. Personally i think a 8 team playoff in football would have been fine.

Cinderella Teams licking their chops if more teams get added to the tournament 😂

Stop expanding playoffs and March madness. It’s tough to get in and it’s exciting when they do. You’re destroying the game by doing this

Thank you Jay for calling Jason stupid. I agree he’s dead wrong as usual. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Bout to ruin march madness what a shame

Can we eliminate double-digit loss programs from the 5 power conferences from qualifying, unless they are a tourney champ? Please. So we can make sure teams who deserve to be there are there. Expansion is ridiculous.

That blonde girl is very very expressive. I know she said hello to her mom and “Go UConn” and something about the number 6 and I think she wants to be married.

I start watching when they get to the sweet 16

Doesn't matter to me!!! The NAACP basketball tournament is the greatest thing since pop rocks.

I thought it was stupid when they decided to go from 8 team tournament to 16..

68 is more than enough.

Bilas doesn’t miss

ll the NCAA is looking at is The MONEY

the SEC and B1G already ruined college football with the influence of the conferences. they’ll ruin college basketball with the super conferences every team is already in the NCAA tournament. just win you’re conference. expansion wasn’t needed in football and definitely isn’t needed in basketball

It's all about more gambling

Well talk of expanding college football playoff, now the tournament, what are we doing? Trying to be nice to teams? Sorry but whoever cane up with this is stupid

No one supports expansion. So, it will probably happen.

We don’t need more teams, we need less teams from power conferences. Limit conferences to 6 teams in the tournament.

I agree with Jay Williams

jay williams. walking L

Love Jay Bilas, JWill is terrible

Nothing personal, but Jay doesn’t have a clue. It’s that puke education working.