NCAA Tournament Expansion

With all the talk of NCAA Tournament expansion, especially the latest declaration from the Big Ten Commissioner about the Tournament "probably" expanding to 96 teams, I believe this needs to be said:

DON'T DO IT!

Let's start with an overlooked, obvious point: 96 teams will mean the Top 32 teams would all have byes (That would have meant for this year teams like Richmond, Clemson, Oklahoma State, Notre Dame, Marquette, Vanderbilt, Temple, UNLV, Texas, Georgetown, all teams that lost in the 1st round this year, would ALL have byes straight through to the second round. If any expansion should happen, it should be to 128, which would leave no teams with 1st round byes.

That being said, I will also say this: If any Tournament changes should happen, the Tournament should be reduced to 32 teams. While all of these upsets in the 1st round are always nice, most people know that 8 times out of 10, these underdogs, like Ohio this year, would run off the court with their tails between their legs halfway through the game because they're down by 50 points. Cutting the field in half gives you 32 teams who all have a shot of winning the Tournament. With 64 teams, you run the risk of teams who have no chance of winning more than 2 games beating the teams who have a shot of winning it all. I say, cut the field in half. And the sooner, the better.