Mandel: Sure, Greg Sankey, expand March Madness — to include more small schools

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Mandel: Sure, Greg Sankey, expand March Madness — to include more small schools
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The last thing the NCAA Tournament needs is more underwhelming power-conference teams.

Three weeks of sports nirvana commenced at 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, when CBS unveiled . The beauty of March Madness is knowing that some team is about to become this year’s Florida Gulf Coast or Fairleigh Dickinson, while accepting it’s impossible to predict who it will be. Or at least I thought it was impossible — until I read a couple of recent interviews with Greg Sankey.

Only the Big 12 improved among the power football conferences. Those numbers match the popular perception that the sport is not as talented at the top as it used to be. Meanwhile, over that same time period, those cute little Cinderellas at the bottom of the bracket got better. From 2013 to ’17, automatic qualifiers seeded No. 11 or lower combined to win 16 games, with just one, No. 15 seed in 2013, reaching the Sweet 16. From 2018 to ’23, that win total rose to 24, highlighted by No.

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