The final four at-large teams and final four automatic qualifiers in the newly minted 68-team NCAA men's basketball tournament field will meet for the right to enter the traditional 64-team draw, tournament selection committee chairman Dan Guerrero announced Monday.
The "First Four" will be played either the Tuesday or Wednesday after Selection Sunday. The winners of the four games will advance to what will now be called the "second round" on either Thursday or Friday. The newly named third round -- with 16 games -- will be Saturday and Sunday. The rest of the tournament -- regional semifinals (Sweet 16) and regional finals (Elite Eight) -- will remain as they have been, as will the Final Four, which is set for Houston in 2011.
Andy Katz, ESPN.com
WOW, they added 3 whole teams! This is horseshit. Either expand or don't. I say just make it a clean 128 and call it a day. This would give us 32 games on both Tuesday and Wednesday and literally make every heterosexual male in the country take the entire week off of work. Could you imagine being in Vegas from the Tuesday-Sunday? I mean everyone would be broke because there would be about a gazillion games to bet on, but it would be the greatest 6 days of all time. And to everyone who says we need to keep it at 64 because of the sanctity and all that crap, please never speak again. No one remembers who made the tournament. No one remembers some dumbass random 600 person school getting bounced in the first round. Just give me as many games as possible and I'll be fine.
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