Don't Fix What Isn't Broken (Say NO to NCAA Tournament Expansion)

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany told USA Today on Wednesday that the expansion of the NCAA Tournament from 64 to 96 teams is "probable".
No,no,no. Bad idea. Greed has never led to anything good, and that is all that expansion would be, a way for the NCAA to rake in more money from television rights while devaluing a product that everyone from fans to coaches to media members love the way it is.

Greg Shaheen, the NCAA’s senior vice president for basketball and business strategies, told the New York Times earlier this month that "it's easy to say you don't want change. But simply put, it's what's appropriate to operate in our best interest."
What Mr. Shaheen doesn't understand is that the interests of a few greedy old men that want to add a hot tub to their houses is that 10 years from now, when SportsCenter does a special feature on why college lacrosse has become more popular than college basketball, all fingers will point towards the day the tournament expanded to explan how it all began.

Ironically, I should be happy about the addition of 32 more teams to the field since that almost guarantees the University of South Florida a chance to go to the Big Dance for the first time in its history. However, I'm not, because I want USF to earn its way in like it almost did this year, not get lost in a sea of 32 extra teams that did little to nothing to justify their presence in the postseason.

If the NCAA Tournament is expanded, then it will go from being an exclusive party in South Beach that everyone wants to attend to a party in Brandon, Missouri attended by D-List celebrities. And there is no way in hell I'm filling out a 96-team bracket either.