At the ACC Tipoff basketball media days, conference commissioner Jim Phillips expressed why he is in favor of having more teams included in postseason national tournaments.
it's time to look at that. It's time to look at the expansion of all conference championships and not conference but national championships. To your point on the the men's basketball tournament or women's basketball tournament The greatest championship we have are those tournaments as far as just the access um currently you have 30 to take us and then you have 30 for 36 uh at large bids. I think we're we're needing some dialogue is and not only looking at the men's basketball and women's basketball tournament but some of the other tournaments that have fewer opportunities when you have you have this 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 in sports sports and not having a chance to access those championships. Um I certainly felt like we needed we deserve more than five A. C. C. Teams last year on the men's side. And I felt like we we deserve more than eight on the women's side. But the numbers are the numbers and again my perspective and our perspective of the A. C. C. Not interested in cutting back those A. Qs. Those accused matter. That's part of the broad based opportunities that we have in Division one sports is the lower resource conferences and the higher resources conferences can all gain access. But baseball I certainly felt like we had several teams that got you know should have gotten in and in baseball the team that the committee indicated was the last team in won the national championship. And so I look at N. C. State in that example where they deserve to be in. So at the time is now the time is now as we're looking at the overall structure of the N. C. A. And one of their responsibilities has been championships. So I'm in favor of looking at it and I really would like us to expand but and I'll finish here the, but is you have to look at what does that do this season? How many more games are we talking about? What are the financial implications? What does it do to conference championship season? So similar to what we've done in the C. F. P. I think we'll have to do the same across the sports that are sponsored from an N. C. A. Level?
