[NU Sports] NCAA Poised to Expand to Field of 96; NIT Slated for Extinction

[Arthur Miller]

Tom is right; this is a DUMB IDEA.  Are they going to allow the 10th or 11th best ACC team with a 12-17 record in the expanded tournament, or will .500 become some kind of hallowed marker like in football?

Anyway, why stop with 96?  If more is always better, let's allow in a few top teams from Division II or III.  Or make it a double-elimination tournament!

I would say this tendency to increase the size of tournaments is the main reason I am opposed to a football playoff.  I can (barely) accept the logic of a four-team post-bowl playoff, but today's news tells only proves that it's just a matter of time before the system would expand.