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

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> Wouldn't 96 mean the bottom 64 teams
> have a play-in game to make a round of
> 64 with the top 32? Just like when they had 48 teams, and
> 32 were in a
> play-in to compete against the top 16 seeds?

Yes - so you'd have to add another weekend or have midweek games (Tuesday/Wednesday) to feed into that first Thu/Sat or Fri/Sun round.

Or end the Final Four and have an Elite Eight with four games Thursday ... the semis on Saturday and the final on Monday.

Either way? Suuuuuuuuuuucks!

GO CATS!!!
-SjT