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Playing Out of Play-In Games Still Difficult for HBCU Conferences

It has hardly escaped notice -- certainly not among the schools themselves -- that in the 10 years the NCAA conducted a "play-in'' game to accommodate the 65th team in the men's basketball tournament, a program from one of the two historically black Division-I conferences was placed in it nine times. On Monday, the NCAA...

NCAA's 68-Team Field Only Good Because It Could've Been Worse

If this was all a plan by the NCAA, then it had all the evil genius trappings, short of a menacingly petted cat and thick central European accent. Consider it somewhere between sharks with laser beams on their heads and exploding a nuclear bomb along the San Andreas fault. Monday, the NCAA announced how its new bracket...

New 68-Team NCAA Tournament Pits Last At-Large Teams Against Each Other

The opening round of the NCAA tournament got a lot bigger, and Monday it got a lot better. The final four at-large teams will square off during the NCAA tournament's opening round, as well as two games between teams seeded 65th-68th on the overall tournament S-curve, the NCAA announced Monday. The last four at-large...