The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format.
Both tournaments will have eight extra gamesTournaments will expand for first time in 15 yearsThe NCAA announced on Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move that will drop more games into the first week of the showcase without substantially changing its overall form.The new, 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games – for a total of 12 involving 24 teams – into the front half of the first week of the men’s and the women’s tournaments. It will turn what’s now known as the First Four into a bigger affair that will now be called the “March Madness Opening Round”. Continue reading...
The men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments are expanding to 76 teams -- the largest increase for the men since 1985, and the first for the women since 2022.
