How expanded March Madness TV and game schedules should change
With the NCAA Tournament expanding to 76 teams, CBS and Turner have a big TV scheduling challenge. Here are our recommendations:
The NCAA Tournament is expanding to 76 teams. You don't like it. I don't like it.
No one except coaches and administrators likes it. Yet, it's coming, so we have to adjust to what's here. There will be other think pieces about how bad this is for college basketball.
Rest assured about that. However, this piece will be a constructive attempt to adjust the scheduling and TV logistics around a 76-team March Madness field. First 12 What was the First Four is now going to be the First 12.
It might not be officially branded as such, but that's essentially what we will have. There will be 12 play-in games instead of only four to accommodate expansion from 68 teams to 76. Eight more teams into the play-in round with eight more opponents.
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