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ExtremeDog

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<h1>Report: NCAA, CBS reach deal on expanded hoops tournament</h1><h2></h2><span class="gslAutUserPhoto" id="gslshowAuthImg"></span><p class="ratingbyline">USA Today • April 22, 2010 </p><p class="comments">The NCAA has reached a 14-year, multi-billion-dollar agreement with CBS and Turner Sports for the TV rights to an expanded Division I men's basketball tournament, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations.<span class="aa"></span></p><div class="article-bodytext" id="article-bodytext"><div id="artpagination"><div class="c content-wrap"><div class="gel-content" id="__gelement_1"><div class="gel-pane gpagediv" id="GPage1"><div class="articleflex-container"><div class="articleflex"><span class="adlabel-horz"></span>
<div id="adcontainer___gelement_adbanner_0"><div class="" id="__gelement_2">The new-look tournament would start next year.</div></div></div></div>

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CBS in a press release confirmed a 12:30 CT teleconference to discuss a "future NCAA multi-media rights agreement." </p>

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The deal means interim NCAA President Jim Isch has decided to opt out of the final three years of the assocation's current 11-year, $6 billion contract with CBS. The new agreement would expand the men's tournament from 65 teams to anywhere from 68 to 96.</p>

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The NCAA has until July 31 to formally opt out of the existing CBS contract.</p>

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Terms of the anticipated new deal with CBS and Turner weren't immediately available, though they presumably would exceed the $710 million-per-year average due the NCAA in the final three years of the current agreement.<span class="aa"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
 
ExtremeDog

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<h1>Report: NCAA, CBS reach deal on expanded hoops tournament</h1><h2></h2><span class="gslAutUserPhoto" id="gslshowAuthImg"></span><p class="ratingbyline">USA Today • April 22, 2010 </p><p class="comments">The NCAA has reached a 14-year, multi-billion-dollar agreement with CBS and Turner Sports for the TV rights to an expanded Division I men's basketball tournament, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations.<span class="aa"></span></p><div class="article-bodytext" id="article-bodytext"><div id="artpagination"><div class="c content-wrap"><div class="gel-content" id="__gelement_1"><div class="gel-pane gpagediv" id="GPage1"><div class="articleflex-container"><div class="articleflex"><span class="adlabel-horz"></span>
<div id="adcontainer___gelement_adbanner_0"><div class="" id="__gelement_2">The new-look tournament would start next year.</div></div></div></div>

</p>

CBS in a press release confirmed a 12:30 CT teleconference to discuss a "future NCAA multi-media rights agreement." </p>

</p>

The deal means interim NCAA President Jim Isch has decided to opt out of the final three years of the assocation's current 11-year, $6 billion contract with CBS. The new agreement would expand the men's tournament from 65 teams to anywhere from 68 to 96.</p>

</p>

The NCAA has until July 31 to formally opt out of the existing CBS contract.</p>

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Terms of the anticipated new deal with CBS and Turner weren't immediately available, though they presumably would exceed the $710 million-per-year average due the NCAA in the final three years of the current agreement.<span class="aa"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
 
dawgstudent

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Will the tourney start a week earlier or a day before or what?

I haven't read much on how it's going to work. 1-8 seeds get a bye don't they?
 
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Tds &amp; Beer

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There's so many different ways you could go with it. Byes in the first round, or a sweet six, oreight regions of 12, etc etc.
 
dawgstudent

dawgstudent

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so Conf play will start a week earlier I presume. That means the first week of conf games will have no students in the stands.
 
GloryDawg

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The championship game is bigger, the final four would be as good as the Championship is now, the elite eight would be the new final four, the sweet sixteen would be as good as the present elite eight and the thirty two would be like the sweet sixteen and so on. Damn, ESPN would spin their heads coming up with catchy titles for each round.
 
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Oxford Godfrey

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The contracts ESPN has with the respective conferences are locked into certain dates. You can't move their tournaments back.

CBS can't roll the Final Four a week later, because of the Master's.

You'd have to start at the same time and more than likely have a nonstop first week and a half and then meet the old schedule on the Thursday that the Sweet Sixteen begins.

Stupid idea, big mess.
 
AccountingDawg

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The expansion will be to a total of 68 teams... I think this is a much better number than the rediculous 96 teams but still,only 3 more teams, REALLY... What good is this?? If that is the best they can do, just leave it the <17> alone...
 
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The Nifty Ninety Six? The Spectacular Sixty Four? The Thrilling thirty two? We need the new names so Coach34 can latch on to a new arbitrary milestone.
 
Bulldog from Birth

Bulldog from Birth

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I would be ok if they expanded it by a few teams and maybe have 8 at-large teams have to play-in for the final 4 spots (three 12's and a 13 seed or however it turned out). But i think fundamentally changing the format would be disastrous.

Instead of the 2 vs 15 matchup, you'd get the 15 seed playing a 9 seed. In the new format, it would now be the 9 seed playing the 23 seed in the 96-team format. I happen to be somebody who WANTS to watch the 15 get a shot at the 2. I WANT to see David vs. Goliath!!! That's what the first round is all about!!

BFB
 
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JxnDawg39211

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it will be expanded to 68 teams . Instead of 1 play-in game there will be 4 play in games with each one seed playing the winner of the play in game . Besides that the tournament will be exactly the same.
 
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