Dan Gavitt says the possibility of NCAA tournament expansion hasn't been seriously explored since he became the czar of March Madness just over a decade ago.
Maybe two or three times the men's basketball committee has been asked to consider increasing the 68-team field. Each time, the committee has quickly and emphatically shot down that idea without much discussion.
"Those very infrequent times when it has been up for consideration, the conversation has been very brief," Gavitt, the NCAA's senior vice president for basketball, told Yahoo Sports. "I'd categorize it as 30 minutes or less. There has not been any interest from past basketball committees in even entertaining the idea of expanding.