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Avoiding an inevitable disaster, the NCAA tournament will not expand to 96 teams. With today's announcement of a new contract with CBS that will pay the NCAA $10.8 billion over 14 years, the NCAA will introduce a new tournament featuring 68 teams with each region having its own play-in game, from Basketball Times alum Dick Jerardi of the Philadelphia Daily News.
And longtime Basketball Times correspondent Dick "Hoops" Weiss of the New York Daily News couldn't agree more.
In the first press conference at the Matthew Knight Arena, Oregon will introduce former Creighton coach Dana Altman as its new head coach. Altman is heading to Eugene with a seven-year contract worth almost $2 million per year, from The Oregonian.
Meanwhile, back in Omaha, Iowa State coach Greg McDermott may be returning to the Missouri Valley to replace Altman as Creighton coach, from The Omaha World-Journal.
Basketball Times contributor Blair Kerkoff proposes a bold plan that would shift the landscape of college athletics ... don't just expand the Big Ten ... expand all the conferences, from the Kansas City Star.
After losing the affable Steve Donahue to Boston College, Cornell's players are warming up to their new coach, former Virginia Tech assistant Bill Courtney, from the Ithaca Journal.
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