ORLANDO, Fla. — NCAA president Charlie Baker sees worth in increasing the NCAA match by a handful of groups and desires to achieve a call within the subsequent few months, he stated Thursday.
Baker spoke throughout Huge 12 spring conferences, the place convention leaders are discussing every part from the multibillion greenback revenue-sharing settlement to complexities introduced on by the switch portal and identify, picture and likeness.
“We have had good conversations with CBS and WBD,” Baker stated about including 4 to eight groups. “Our aim right here is to attempt to form of get to both sure or no someday within the subsequent few months as a result of there’s loads of logistical work that might be related to doing this. If we had been to go down this street, you simply take into consideration the opening weekends, who has to journey the longest, it will get sophisticated.”
The NCAA match expanded from 65 to 68 groups in 2011. The change launched the First 4 spherical, a set of video games the place the 4 lowest-seeded at-large groups and 4 lowest-seeded convention champions compete for a spot within the conventional 64-team bracket.
Baker stated there are flaws within the present system and that it will be helpful to offer extra alternatives to worthy groups.
“If in case you have a match that is bought 64 or 68 groups in it, you are going to have a bunch of groups which might be most likely amongst what most individuals would contemplate to be the most effective 68 or 70 groups within the nation that are not going to make the match, interval,” Baker stated. “The purpose behind going from 68 to 72 or 76 is to mainly give a few of these faculties that had been most likely among the many 72, 76, 68, 64 finest groups within the nation a manner into the match.”