NCAA to keep 2026 March Madness men's and women's basketball tournaments at 68 teams
The NCAA Tournament will remain at 68 teams — at least for another season.
The 2026 men's and women's NCAA basketball brackets will continue in their current form, with the decision to stay put made on a joint Zoom call Monday afternoon between the Division I men's and women's basketball committees, sources told CBS Sports.
The move comes a little less than a month after the committees' separate in-person gatherings in Georgia (men's) and Philadelphia (women's) when, despite anticipation of a verdict, no action was taken. Following July's lack of action, Monday's vote was seen as an inevitability due to the calendar creep on the 2025-26 academic year.
Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's senior vice president of basketball, made this statement Monday.
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