Here’s What The 76-Team NCAA Tournament Bracket Will Look Like

The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments will be expanding to 76 teams, beginning next season.

CBS Sports college hoops insider Matt Norlander confirmed the news.

“The voting in favor of expanding March Madness was unanimous from the men’s and women’s committees, per a source,” Norlander reported on Thursday afternoon.

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“An emergency joint meeting for the men’s and women’s basketball oversight committees was also called for Thursday afternoon and the matter was also universally approved on that call, per sources. It’s a necessary step toward ratifying the change. The Division I cabinet is next scheduled to meet on May 22 and needs to pass the motion, as will the NCAA’s Board of Governors after that.”

PROVIDENCE, RI – MARCH 19: The March Madness logo shown on the floor before the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament – First & Second Rounds Practice Day at the Amica Mutual Pavilion on March 19, 2025 in Providence, Rhode Island. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)Mitchell Layton/Getty Images

What will the 76-team NCAA Tournament bracket look like?

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Here’s what it’ll be:

Seth Greenberg is among those defending the bracket

Many appear to be in opposition to the 76-team NCAA Tournament bracket.

Seth Greenberg, the former Virginia Tech head coach, is not one of them.

“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.

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