NCAA Tournament expansion to 76 teams
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The Power Four (Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12 and Southeastern conferences) go into the 2026-27 football season with no membership changes from a year ago. The rest of the 10 leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision — particularly the Pac-12 — have new faces in some places.
On Thursday, the NCAA officially announced that both the men's and women's basketball tournaments will expand from 68 teams to 76 beginning next season — the biggest structural change to March Madness in decades. And just like that, the cleanest bracket in sports got a little messier.
For Princeton University and the Ivy League, the consolidation of competitive college programs into larger conferences has made the path to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament an even more difficult one for teams in the already ...
Midnight came early again for Cinderella. All 16 teams that advanced to the second week of this year’s NCAA tournament hail from one of the five power conferences. At least one team from outside the power conferences reached the round of 16 for 49 ...
It’s conference realignment… in wrestling, that shook up the league landscape on Wednesday morning. The Pac-12 Conference announced membership for four new schools, with Air Force, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State and South Dakota State leaving ...
Every March, the NCAA Tournament delivers the same promise: chaos, drama and a chance for a team to write its name into college basketball history. But when you zoom out and look at the national champions over the decades, another story appears. Certain ...
At the end of the 2025-26 athletic season, a major restructure of the Western Athletic Conference is set to take place. Since its creation in 1962, the WAC has been the home of over 40 collegiate programs,