NCAA Tournament Expansion

I am 100% against expanding the NCAA tournament. This is March Madness, not kindergarten where everyone's a winner. I was watching some of the games scroll by the last two days of the teams playing in the NIT, the teams that would have made the dance with an expanded tournament. I got a little excited, North Carolina was playing, and William and Mary kept it close...then I realized that North Carolina lost earlier in the season back to back to National American University and University of Phoenix. UCONN was playing, they were good right?? Oh yeah, they finished something like 13th in the conference. Illinois St. played at Dayton, Stony Brook, Troy, Tulsa, Webber St.....half of the teams came from conferences that haven't ever sent more than one team to the tournament. Memphis? St. John's? Come on. Sure Virginia Tech, Illinois and Ole Miss were close, but they had opportunity after opportunity to make the dance. Illinois could have beat Minnesota at home and they would have been in. Virginia Tech lost to Temple at home, the only good foe they played out of conference. Ok, Seton Hall is decent, but that too was a home game. Penn State was supposed to be good, but so was North Carolina. They played Duke, G Tech, Maryland and Wake Forrest each once, the four best teams in the conference. Ole Miss played in the SEC. The SEC was terrible this year! KY was great, Tennessee and Vandy were good. Mississippi St looked pretty good, but they played in a bad conference. Ole Miss just wasn't that good.

Just face it, there aren't 4 more teams that are deserving to be in, let alone 32. This is the National Championship Tournament, not the Stroke Everyone's Ego tournament. It should be special to get in. Did you see Ohio go crazy when they won? Did you see the excitement when Minnesota got in? Right now its special because you know you have to have had a great season or a great run to be in. If 96 teams were invited would it fun to be in? No. Think of how many teams would make it EVERY YEAR. This is supposed to be for the teams who proved they might be able to win it all, and even now half of the teams have no shot.

The NIT's this year might as well be called the Kohler tournament because that's what it is, a toilet bowl.

Keep the tournament at 64 teams and keep the greatest sporting event just that.