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Thursday, April 22, 2010
UD open to accommodating NCAA expansion
The NCAA announced today that the field for its men’s basketball tournament will expand from 65 to 68 teams beginning next year and that a new, $10.8 billion broadcasting deal with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting is in place that will allow every game to be shown live for the first time.
The move - which still has to be approved by the NCAA Board of Directors on April 29 — is a surprise to many who felt the tourney would absorb the NIT and increase to a 96-team field.
The expansion apparently means four opening-round games will be required like the one that’s been held in Dayton every year since 2001. While the NCAA hasn’t announced details of the tourney format, UD would be receptive to hosting four games instead of just one on that opening Tuesday.
“It’s a game that’s important to us,” UD spokesman Doug Hauschild said. “We want to create a tournament atmosphere for the kids involved. If they came to us and said they wanted to have four games here instead of one, we’d find a way to get it done.”
Other options for the NCAA would include holding one opening-round game at each site where a No. 1 seed is playing or staging a pair of double-headers, one at Dayton and another elsewhere.
UD has an agreement with the NCAA to host the opening-round game through 2013. The school also will be a site for first- and second-round games in 2013.
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