As has been widely anticipated, the NCAA will now expand the men’s national basketball championship tournament from a field of 64 teams to 68 teams.  There was speculation that the field could be expanded to as many as 96 teams.

However, every little bit of help will be greatly appreciated by CBS, Duke and the NCAA.

Moreover, all of the games will be televised from beginning to end.  So Jim Nance, Clark Kellogg, Bill Packer and Dick “Dukey” Vitale can cover all six Duke games on CBS, and push the other #1 seeds’ games over to Turner Broadcasting while they get knocked out of the tournament.  See how much sense this makes? 

Everyone makes more $$$$$$.

So let’s see, the NCAA basketball tournament selection committee can now take a few more of the higher-seeded teams that would have been in Duke’s bracket, spread them around to the other three brackets, and take the new 67-68-69-70 teams and put them in Duke’s bracket – “for procedural reasons“, of course.

There, that should “fix it” even better.