NCAA leaders say talk of tournament expansion will wait until after March

Decisions on whether to expand the NCAA basketball tournaments won’t happen until after this year’s tournament at the earliest, though NCAA president Charlie Baker and major-conference leaders are still in favor of it happening. NCAA senior vice president of basketball operations Dan Gavitt told reporters at the organization’s headquarters on Thursday that conversations around expansion are ongoing, but there won’t be serious meetings on the topic until at least after this year’s men’s and women