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[QUOTE="wgdsr, post: 5072800, member: 7179"]
love that mark/fieldy puts the amount of time and acumen into the tourney selections this time of year.  and gives a window on how he thinks things will break.  have had numerous discussions with him.

the tourn will not expand to 24 teams anytime soon.  however, the proposal referenced in the top of the thread in oct '22 passed in jan '23.  it was part of a very large reform package the nc$$ is enacting in a desperate? attempt to stop backsliding on court losses, player vs nc$$ conflicts, conference grabs and possible breakaways.

long story short, what was approved was for sports with >200 programs, a push for nc$$ tourn to move toward 25% nc$$ tourney participation.  also approved was single-sport committees to decentralize rule making on things like this (and many other items i.e. scholly limits).  
so lax is <200 teams, of course.  but it's easy to see how a committee can say we'd like to have that, too.  and now have an accommodating nc$$ and less bureaucracy.  in theory, they could also set the tourney up any way they'd like.  i see 2-4 additional at larges, with some play-ins, inside of 2 years.  the tourn expansion votes for the >200 sports is up in june 2024.
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