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Bob, I stand corrected - thanks Matt. From the NCAA Final Four Website:
The field for the NCAA men's basketball tournament will expand by one next season with an "opening-round" game the Tuesday before the first round begins.
The NCAA, which has confirmed the 65-team field, said the winner of the game between two of the lower-ranked conferences will move into the brackets as a No. 16 seed.
The tournament field is expanding because 31 conferences will receive automatic bids next year, two more than last season. The committee always selects at least 34 at-large teams.
The additional automatic bids will go to the year-old Mountain West Conference and the Western Athletic Conference, which didn't have one last season after eight members left to form the Mountain West.
The Division I men's basketball committee is recommending the opening-round game be played on Tuesday, March 13, at the University of Dayton Arena, which is a host site for first- and second-round games.
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