February 27, 2025
By Matt Norlander, CBS Sports: A decision on future NCAA Tournament expansion for men’s and women’s basketball isn’t expected to happen before the end of this season, NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan Gavitt told CBS Sports on Thursday. Beyond that, Gavitt told CBS Sports there remains a possibility that the tournament doesn’t expand at all, at least not in the “near-term.”
“The most important thing to get across,” Gavitt said on the Eye on College Basketball podcast, “this is definitely not a fait accompli. The recommendation to not expand the tournaments is absolutely a potential outcome here in the short-term.”
The reasons for potentially deferring a decision on expansion are tied to myriad cumbersome financial issues, in addition to differing opinions within the NCAA on the competitive viability of expanding both the men’s and women’s tournaments.
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