Orlando, Fla. - NCAA President Charlie Baker said Thursday he believes the value of the NCAA Championship is expanded with a few teams and hopes to make a decision on the matter in the coming months.

Baker spoke at the 12 spring meetings where conference leaders are discussing the complexity of ranging from billion-dollar revenue-shared housing settlements to transfer portals and names, images and similar compensation.

Baker discussed the idea of ​​scaling from 68 teams to 72 or 76.

"We had a good conversation with CBS and WBD," Baker said. "Our goal is to try to get to sometime in the next few months or no, because there is a lot of logistics with doing so.

The NCAA Championship expanded from 64 teams to 68 teams in 2011. The change introduced the first four rounds, a series of tournaments where the two lowest seeds have a spot in the traditional 64-team stand.

Baker said the current formula is flawed and said it is beneficial to provide more opportunities for valuable teams.

"If you have 64 or 68 teams in your game, you're going to have a bunch of teams, which is probably the best 68 or 70 teams in the country that most people think are the best in the country, and those teams won't play," Baker said. “The purpose from 68 to 72 or 76 is to basically give some schools that are probably among the 72, 76, 68, 64 best teams in the country to get into the game.”

Baker takes the highly competitive Indiana team as an example. Indiana State continues to play Seton Hall in the 2024 NIT Championship, one of the best games of spring at that time.

Kansas coach Bill Self said the 12-year coach appears to favor the NCAA Championship expansion. Big 12 has seven bids in 2025, half of the SEC's total.

"Some have raised some, and even if very few, consensus among coaches will support that," he said. "I don't know if you can do it in all the entirety of everybody. Of course, there will be outliers in every situation."