ACC commissioner Jim Phillips is open to considering expansion of the NCAA Tournament.

The NCAA Tournament currently has 68 teams participate in the annual tournament. There are growing calls to have more representatives from each conference in the postseason tournament.

While speaking at the ACC Basketball Media Day, Phillips discussed the idea of adding m

ore teams to the tournament.

“It’s time to look at that. It’s time to look at the expansion of all conference championships — not conference championships but National Championships,” Phillips said. “To your point on the men’s basketball tournament or women’s basketball tournament, the greatest championship we have are those tournaments as far as just the access currently. You have 32 [automatic qualifiers], and then you have 34, 36 at-large bids.”

Phillips wanted more teams in the men’s and women’s tournaments in 2022. In the men’s tournament, 5 teams from the ACC made it and 8 ACC teams made the women’s tournament. Phillips called for more bids to the tournament.

“I t

hink where we’re needing some dialogue is in not only looking at the men’s basketball and women’s basketball tournament, but some of the other tournaments that have fewer opportunities,” Phillips said. “When you have this compression that I feel that we have to address in the sense that you have a lot of schools that are spending a tremendous amount of resources in sports and not having a chance to access those championships, I certainly felt like we deserved more than five ACC teams last year on the men’s side, and I felt like we deserved more than eight on the women’s side.”

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