{"id":118892,"date":"2025-08-04T19:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118892\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:03:10","slug":"ncaa-to-keep-2026-march-madness-at-68-teams-tar-heel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118892\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA to keep 2026 March Madness at 68 teams &#8211; Tar Heel Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPosted Aug 4, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe NCAA Tournament will remain at 68 teams \u2014 at least for another season. The 2026 men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s NCAA basketball brackets will continue in their current form, with the decision to stay put made on a joint call Monday between the Division I men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball committees. 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And you may want to prepare to get used to this&#8230;<br \/>Sun Aug 3, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160168.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Vick, DeSean Jackson, and a New College Coaching Experiment<\/a><br \/>The arrival of Michael Vick and DeSean Jackson has been a much-needed shot in the arm for the MEAC, a withering conference of historically Black&#8230;<br \/>Sun Aug 3, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160163.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Duke&#8217;s Manny Diaz is as much a program CEO as football coach<\/a><br \/>In many ways, Duke has a thoroughly modern football coach, one who has embraced the new look of college sports and accepted the increasing demands&#8230;<br \/>Sat Aug 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ncaat682026.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"NCAA to keep 2026 March Madness at 68 teams\" title=\"NCAA to keep 2026 March Madness at 68 teams\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0; overflow:hidden;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Posted Aug 4, 2025&#13; The NCAA Tournament will remain at 68 teams \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-118892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972052873040272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}