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NCAA president expects basketball tournament expansion decision this fall

July 25, 2025

By Jeff Borzello, ESPN: NCAA president Charlie Baker said Thursday that he thinks a decision on whether to expand the NCAA tournament will be made “sometime this fall,” making it less likely it would impact the 2026 men’s and women’s tournaments.

Baker, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., said the biggest challenge for tournament expansion — particularly one that would take place in less than eight months — is logistics.

“The tournament has to start after the conference championships are over,” he said. “And right now Selection Sunday happens like two hours after the last tournament game ends and has to finish by the Tuesday before the Masters. There’s not a lot of room there. Any expansion, we’re going to have to figure out how to put it in and then logistically how to make it work.

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