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Men's NCAA basketball tournament gets new TV deal

 
By Mel Bracht | Published: April 23, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The good news for sports fans from the new NCAA men’s basketball tournament TV deal announced Thursday is that all the games will be nationally televised for the first time. No longer will scheduling be subject to the whims of network programmers and their crazy shifting from game to game.

photo - West Virginia’s Kevin Jones (5) signs autographs during a practice session for this year’s NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis in March. The NCAA Tournament will expand to 68 teams and be aired by CBS and Turner networks TBS, TNT and truTV. AP PHOTO
West Virginia’s Kevin Jones (5) signs autographs during a practice session for this year’s NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis in March. The NCAA Tournament will expand to 68 teams and be aired by CBS and Turner networks TBS, TNT and truTV. AP PHOTO

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The tournament field also isn’t being watered down by expanding to 96 teams as had been proposed last month. Instead, it will expand modestly from 65 to 68 teams and the NCAA-owned NIT will live for another day. The 96-team proposal apparently was a trial balloon that didn’t take off.

The bad news for fans without cable TV is that many of regional finals will air on TBS, and beginning in 2016, TBS and CBS will alternate coverage of the Final Four.

Interim NCAA president Jim Isch said providing national coverage of all games was an important part of the new TV package.

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