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Matt Conrad: Tourney expansion would be bad news

By Matt Conrad · July 6, 2006

Eight teams. Until 1950, that's how many schools competed in the NCAA Tournament each year. With 145 schools participating in Division I play, that meant just over five percent of teams would compete for a national title. But last week, college coaches discussed nearly doubling the number of teams that make the Big Dance, from 65 to 128.

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Evan Goldin: Building a waterfront for people, not cars

By Evan Goldin · July 6, 2006

It started with the gentle stroke of a pen, almost exactly 50 years ago. Across the country in the 1950s, highways were being pounded through cities, regardless of what stood in their way. In Philadelphia the 1950s highway explosion is evidenced by the Schuylkill Expressway, which marked "a huge planning and urban design mistake," said Dennis Pieprz, the president of Sasaki Associates, the firm designing Penn's eastward expansion.

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Matt Conrad: Tourney expansion would be bad news

By Matt Conrad · July 6, 2006

Eight teams. Until 1950, that's how many schools competed in the NCAA Tournament each year. With 145 schools participating in Division I play, that meant just over five percent of teams would compete for a national title. But last week, college coaches discussed nearly doubling the number of teams that make the Big Dance, from 65 to 128.

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