The NCAA Tournament is one of the best events in sports, certainly the best in college sports. You could go as far as to argue that it’s one of the few things the NCAA does right. Yet, one of college athletics’ most powerful figures thinks it should change. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said yesterday that he believes it’s time to rethink the format of the NCAA Tournament, specifically, broadening the field.
Sankey used two SEC teams as examples of why an expanded NCAA tournament makes sense. First, he pointed out that Ole Miss, the last team into the College World Series, ended up winning it all.