Here's What The 76-Team NCAA Tournament Bracket Will Look Like

The NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments will be expanding to 76 teams, beginning next season.

CBS Sports college hoops insider Matt Norlander confirmed the news.

"The voting in favor of expanding March Madness was unanimous from the men's and women's committees, per a source," Norlander reported on Thursday afternoon.

"An emergency joint meeting for the men's and women's basketball oversight committees was also called for Thursday afternoon and the matter was also universally approved on that call, per sources. It's a necessary step toward ratifying the change. The Division I cabinet is next scheduled to meet on May 22 and needs to pass the motion, as will the NCAA's Board of Governors after that."

What will the 76-team NCAA Tournament bracket look like?

Here's what it'll be:

Seth Greenberg is among those defending the bracket

Many appear to be in opposition to the 76-team NCAA Tournament bracket.

Seth Greenberg, the former Virginia Tech head coach, is not one of them.

"For those of you losing your mind that the NCAA Tournament expanded from 68 to 76, get over yourselves," the former Virginia Tech coach said in a social media video. "When you have these mega-conferences, you're playing 20-game schedules, and you know what, you might be 8-12. But those eight games that you won, five of them might be against teams that are in the top-25. And then out of conference, the way things are right now you see more good games out of conference, you might have two wins against top-25 teams. All of the sudden, you have seven wins against top-25 teams. You got seven wins against teams that are going to advance in the NCAA Tournament.

"And yeah, your record might not be great. It might be 18-12, or it might be 17-13, but you're a team that can win games in the NCAA Tournament. And more importantly, you expanded eight more teams. I've been in my house, with my players, that win 10, 11 ACC games, seven, six, five games against the field, and didn't get in.

"And how about the mid-majors? The expansion is going to potentially give the Atlantic 10 a better opportunity, the Mountain West a better opportunity, the Missouri Valley a better opportunity to get more teams in the tournament. So, adding eight teams? Please, just get over yourself. College basketball and the NCAA Tournament will be just fine. By the way, look at the non-conference games that are being played right now because people aren't afraid to potentially take a loss because they know that it will help their body of work. The NCAA Tournament is in great hands, and 76 will have no impact on the regular season, nor will it have an impact on the NCAA Tournament."

We'll have to see how things shake out next March.

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This story was originally published May 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM.