"I'm bullish on the conversations we've had about going to 72 or 76, and I think the committees are willing to consider that but I don't think it's going to be anything beyond that," Baker said after speaking about the future of the NCAA at a conference hosted by Sports Business Journal.
"We are giving away highly competitive opportunities for automatic qualifiers [from smaller leagues], and I think that pressure is going to rise as we have more competitive basketball leagues at the top end because of expansion," Sankey told ESPN last March.
Baker said he has been having productive conversations with television partners and members of the NCAA's basketball committees on expanding from the current 68-team bracket.
He said the tournament is unlikely to grow any bigger than 76 because of the limited window they have to schedule games between the time when conference championships end and coverage of the Masters begins.
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