NCAA President Charlie Baker said that he “thinks there is an opportunity to expand the NCAA men's basketball tournament -- if it's done with care,” according to Dan Murphy of ESPN.com. The comments came as leaders of some of college sports' “biggest and most powerful conferences” have said in the past week that they “would like to press for changes that would allow for more of their teams to have access to March Madness.” Baker said that he “does not support the idea of decreasing opportunities for schools from smaller leagues to make the tournament by eliminating any of the automatic bids.” Baker: “Most of the people who follow college sports think the NCAA tournament in basketball is perfect, right? So anything that's done to change it needs to be done with care and consideration.” He added that the NCAA's basketball committee has “been discussing those ideas since last summer,” and that the association “might have some update on those potential changes between now and the end of this year's tournament in early April” (ESPN.com, 2/20).
