Basketball Committee Turns Down Expansion Proposals
By Michael Marot, The Associated Press, June 30, 2006

The NCAA's little guys could still get locked out of the most lucrative championship event in college sports—even after George Mason's improbable tournament run last year. The men's basketball committee announced it rejected a coaches' proposal to nearly double the size of the NCAA tournament field from 65 to 128, calling expansion unnecessary and not imminent.

"There is no enthusiasm on the part of the committee to expand the tournament at this time," Craig Littlepage, chairman of the men's basketball committee, said in a statement. "In the interest of sustaining the quality of the tournament, the committee has decided to maintain the current structure." The women's committee, in an almost identical statement, also rejected expansion.

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