{"id":56794,"date":"2026-04-29T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/29\/why-march-madness-expansion-is-really-happening-ncaa-unnecessarily-folded-to-a-bluff-from-power-conferences-cbs-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:51:00","slug":"why-march-madness-expansion-is-really-happening-ncaa-unnecessarily-folded-to-a-bluff-from-power-conferences-cbs-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/29\/why-march-madness-expansion-is-really-happening-ncaa-unnecessarily-folded-to-a-bluff-from-power-conferences-cbs-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Why March Madness expansion is really happening: NCAA unnecessarily folded to a bluff from power conferences &#8211; CBS Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxOd2Z0U1BBMEdKWlRaUjlwc1Q0cXlHZjhaTGg2MEtfcUhFTXdGQUtXQWNFbk44M1pwUVNudy14cDFCbkxvODlSTlYxRzlvTi1BbGFMVkVqaTBZZU5ob2k0anQ4NG5FTEkzOW9PMmZidjBqVmhpaldvc0p1Q0JhMmtUb09UanRwYU44ZTBLVWhxX19Ydy1VOE92eXp1SWU2VG41MTU4bkF4dnBrOEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Why March Madness expansion is really happening: NCAA unnecessarily folded to a bluff from power conferences<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CBS Sports<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why March Madness expansion is really happening: NCAA unnecessarily folded to a bluff from power conferences&nbsp;&nbsp;CBS Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}