If the NCAA decides to go with the coaches’ idea for improving on the NCAA Basketball Tournament format, a name change is defiantely needed. If you had trouble with your office pool in the past, you are going to be dead in the water now. Why? Because the coaches are pushing to possilby double the field size from 64 teams to 128.

Fueled by last year’s success of George Mason (and probably some peppermint schnaps no doubt), the coaches argue that the current format keeps too many teams out of the tournament, and as witnessed last season, who knowswhich team might make a miracle run.

I have another proposal. Make the field the entire span of NCAA basketball teams, and totally scrap all regular season play. Because if you are going to invite every team that knows how to make a bounce pass to the big dance, you might as well just get started right from the get-go, and stop fussing about with all that non-sensical conference play and conference tournaments. Is this AYSO, “everyone plays,” soccer or is this big time college basketball. Someone remind me.

• Coaches to urge NCAA to expand tourney (AP)