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

[Tom Maycock]

> The questions then become:
> 
> - What should the NCAA do ?
> - What do we want the NCAA to do ?
> - What will the NCAA do ?
> 
> And the answers would seem to be:
>
> - Whatever is in the interest of honest competition
> and crowning the most worthy/deserving champion
> 
> - Whatever brings in the most $$$

I think that sums it up pretty well. 

I personally don't care a whole lot either way, but I'm guessing the NCAA's answers will be all about the dollars. 

It is a bit of a shame to see the NIT go away. It was a fun place to go for all the decent teams excluded from the NCAA field due to all the minor conference automatic qualifiers. Again, though, once the NCAA field went to 64, the bar for entering the NIT was pretty low. 

I guess my answer to the questions would be to drop the NCAA tourney back to 32, and give us a competitive NIT for the good teams that didn't make the cut. 

Tom