Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. So go ahead, get your read on, kids.
Dan Guerrero, NCAA chairman of the Division I men’s basketball committee, Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president of academic and membership affairs and Greg Shaheen, NCAA senior vice president of basketball and business strategies met with the media today in Indianapolis to discuss expansion of the tournament. A transcript from the press conference is available here. As you might deduct from the headline, all signs point to expansion. Reaction from bloggers and writers from around the Web below:
+ “So there you have it. The NCAA wants more money, even at the expense of revealing itself to be apparently unconcerned with the notion of “student athletes,” supposedly one of the core reasons it exists. Isn’t this the major argument against a college football playoff?” – Eamonn Brennan, ESPN College Basketball Nation
+ “What’s really at issue here is a great deal of hypocrisy. This might sound like a bit of a straw man argument, but there are detractors of a college football playoff system who balk at the notion of kids missing so much class for those games. So why isn’t the same principle applied in this instance?” – Chris Littman, The Sporting Blog
+ “It seems the 96-team tournament is all but a done deal. The fans don’t like it. But the NCAA and television networks want it. And even worse, after today’s press conference, it appears that the NCAA has absolutely no idea how to go about instituting this. Sounds like a pretty perfect plan.” – Ryan Hudson, SB Nation
