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NCAA President Hints March Madness Field Could Expand

The March Madness logo is shown on a basketball. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

The NCAA has used the 68-team format for March Madness since 2011, but it seems that the number of participating basketball teams could continue to grow in the future.

NCAA president Charlie Baker was asked on the Dan Patrick Show about the possibility of reaching 96 teams in the tournament at some point, which he promptly shut down. An expansion is definitely possible, and probably likely, but the tournament would add just four or eight teams to the field.

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