Are you tired of people not understanding the reason for a 96 team NCAA Basketball march madness?

I keep hearing the "a # 16 has never won a game" argument and that expanding the tournament will dilute the field. Anybody who says that seriously has no idea how the NCAA tournament works. If you expanded to 96 teams the #16 seeds (teams 64-61 or 65-62 depending on your train of thought) as they are ranked now would have to play an extra game play in game and would be ranked 96-92.

People forget that about 25 of the teams in the 64-65 team field that we currently have got in due to winning a conference title. The teams neither have the skill, ranking or record to make it but are their only to legitimizes their league and make the NCAA seem transparent and fair.

Reasons for expansion:

The last team selected as an at large George Mason made it to the final 4. Yes they were a #11 seed but that is the point, they were the last at large but they had at least 16 auto bids ranked below them. Louisiana State also made it that far as a #11 seed.

Many teams who have just missed NCAA births were true contenders who had either injury issues or Development issues early in the season but have finally pulled it together at the end of the season. An example of this would be South Carolina losing by 1 point to Florida in the SEC finals a few years ago, Florida went on to win the NCAA tournament while South Carolina went on to win the NIT.

Long story short expanding to 96 team would make the March Madness better not worse and not force the #1 seeds to face horrible competition.