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[QUOTE="Iceman23, post: 2118967, member: 6291"]
Going to 128 teams:

4 32-team brackets (alternatively, combine the conference and tournament champions into one pool and at-large into another pool, 2 64-team brackets):  
[B][U]The Tournament of Champions[/U][/B]
1. Regular season champions
2. Conference tournament champions (or runner-up if same as regular season champion)
3. Top 6 conferences at-large (as they comprise almost all of the current at-large anyway)
4. Remaining 26 conferences at-large

Data shows that there would be more than enough 'quality' teams from the at-large in each of these brackets - roughly 1 extra team from each of the smaller conferences.

Winners of the four brackets in the Final Four (or if combined, final two of each pool in the Final Four).  This would be 1/3 of all D1 teams, much less than what FBS does for the bowls...

The NIT, CBI, and CIT are meaningless and a burden.  Fold them and expand the NCAAT and get it over with.  Don't see one extra round as an issue but only from a marketing perspective would it cause some headaches and re-workings.
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