The tournament field last expanded in 2011, going from 65 to 68 teams with the creation of the play-in games. How a further expanded field will look has yet to be definitively announced, but ESPN ...

From a Big 12 perspective, the conference saw seven teams get into the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Three of those were recent expansion programs — Arizona, BYU, and Houston.

Tournament expansion is favored by many coaches in Power conference leagues, with the Big 12 men’s basketball coaches expressing their support for the move on Wednesday, through Kansas head ...