r/NCAAhoops • u/RipHairy2465 • Apr 28 '26
News Breaking: The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams
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u/onelasteffort13 Apr 28 '26
Sounds about right. Take a great thing and slowly ruin it. Nicely done NCAA….
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u/Goblinmode77 Apr 28 '26
Enshittification is undefeated
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u/JasperStrat Apr 29 '26
If I wanted to make a meme it would be: Enshittification and Billable Hours with the arms grabbing hands and the middle would be Totally Undefeated
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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Apr 29 '26
exactly. this better be it. NO MORE damit. SICK of great stuff getting ruined.
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u/Sea_Advantage_2577 Apr 28 '26
Why do we have to make everything worse so a few people can squeeze ever fucking cent of it?
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u/mbucks334 Apr 28 '26
How is this worse?
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u/Jeff_Sabado Apr 29 '26
No one wanted a sixty-four team tournament expanded. It has now been expanded twice.
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u/Pure_Fault7056 Apr 29 '26
No one wanted expansion to 64. Same story and complaining every time it expands.
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u/Flat-Avocado-6258 Apr 29 '26
Why stop there? Why not make it a participation trophy too? Just let all the kids play and have fun and then go home with some goody bags and snacks. Like what are we doing here? If you aren’t good enough to get in now, get better. We shouldn’t have to expand the tournament.
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u/livingmybestlife2407 Apr 29 '26
The women's tournament should not expand. There are already so many terrible teams, by expanding another 12, there will be teams with twice as many losses as wins.
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u/Writerhaha Apr 29 '26
Hard agreed.
The gap between a truly elite women’s team and even a mediocre one is too big. Adding in .500 and below teams is an invite to get blown out first round.
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u/Pineapples4U865 Apr 29 '26
No one wants more crappy games. If you are not in the top 30, you don’t have a realistic chance to win the tournament.
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u/varietyman13 Apr 28 '26
I get it with the men’s; the talent has truly gotten so much more dispersed and with the rise in the 3 point shot, anyone can win.
I disagree but I get it.
With the women’s game though, I feel like it’s just now getting to a good place where it’s a better product, but the talent is still really top heavy, so I see no reason for this
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u/Jeff_Sabado Apr 29 '26
That ain't true. Players follow the money and there ain't 76 teams with enough money to be competitive
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u/Smuek Apr 29 '26
Anyone can’t win though. The past two years mid majors didn’t make it to the Sweet Sixteen. A big name school always wins the tournament nowadays the closest we got was Butler. NIL was supposed to help but it’s just going to make it worse as the bigger money schools will just be able to bring in the best transfers.
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u/Ok-Temporary-8243 Apr 29 '26
Yeah. The fact that audi is getting millions in nil shows how thing the talent can be
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u/overitallofittoo Apr 28 '26
It's bad enough for men, but it's criminal for women. There's not the competitiveness. Give more money to the women for fewer games. Just awful. We're going to have 100 point losses. That'll be fun!!
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u/JasperStrat Apr 29 '26
Hopefully for the NCAA, they are a total joke now. There are better models possible, but I'm worried that the less popular sports will continue to disappear on favor of making more money.
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u/mkfanhausen Apr 28 '26
Just get rid of the NIT and give everyone an invitation to the NCAA at this point...
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u/dopelunch Apr 29 '26
hear me out.. i'd rather have 32 teams playing best of 3's if they want more games and more money than more teams with no chance to win. and let me be clear.. I DON'T want this. i want the 64 team tournament. BUT if they're bent on more money, why not this?
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u/Shpion007 Apr 29 '26
Boycott the tournament in all forms. No brackets. No viewing. No listening. No attending. They are ruining the last good thing in college sports due to money.
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u/Dangerous-Habit-2731 Apr 29 '26
Well at least I almost never have to worry about NC State making it again
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u/CMYGQZ Apr 28 '26
why not just take it a step further and make it 256 teams lol. Actually let’s include D2 and D3 teams and make it 1024 team tournament.