Seth Greenberg on NCAA Tournament expansion critics: ‘Get over yourselves’

The fan sentiment surrounding the NCAA Tournament’s imminent decision to expand from 68 teams to 76 teams can summarily be described as overwhelmingly negative. No one is asking for more play-in games. No one wants to wait until Wednesday night to fill out half of their bracket because they have no idea who will actually be playing in the first round. And no one thinks adding eight middling teams to the field is going to result in more excitement on the court.

But one ESPN college basketball analyst is all-in on bumping the field size up by eight teams.

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Seth Greenberg, a veteran analyst on ESPN’s College GameDay, believes wholeheartedly that expansion to 76 teams is a positive for the NCAA Tournament. And his message to everyone who thinks differently: “Get over yourselves.”

“For those of you losing your mind that the NCAA Tournament expanded from 68 to 76, get over yourselves,” the former Virginia Tech coach said in a social media video. “When you have these mega-conferences, you’re playing 20-game schedules, and you know what, you might be 8-12. But those eight games that you won, five of them might be against teams that are in the top-25. And then out of conference, the way things are right now you see more good games out of conference, you might have two wins against top-25 teams. All of the sudden, you have seven wins against top-25 teams. You got seven wins against teams that are going to advance in the NCAA Tournament.

“And yeah, your record might not be great. It might be 18-12, or it might be 17-13, but you’re a team that can win games in the NCAA Tournament. And more importantly, you expanded eight more teams. I’ve been in my house, with my players, that win 10, 11 ACC games, seven, six, five games against the field, and didn’t get in.

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“And how about the mid-majors? The expansion is going to potentially give the Atlantic 10 a better opportunity, the Mountain West a better opportunity, the Missouri Valley a better…

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