How do we get more mid-majors into the NCAA tournament?

No 16-seed had ever beaten a 1-seed in the men's NCAA tournament until 2018. Now it's happened twice.

In the first 28 tournaments that featured 15-seeds (1985-2012), four 15s had beaten 2-seeds. Seven have done so in the past 11. No 15-seed had reached the Sweet 16 until Florida Gulf Coast did it in 2013; now it has happened for three straight tournaments, and Princeton is one win away from putting a No. 15 in the Elite Eight for the second straight year.

The Sweet 16 will not feature any of Kansas, Duke, North Carolina or Kentucky for just the fourth time in 70 years ... and the second time in three. We're openly pondering a Final Four with no 1-seeds, and the Elite Eight could feature up to…