The NCAA has announced the new format for March Madness and internet gambling sites may benefit from the new rules since they leave plenty of time for book makers to fill out the brackets and circulate them. Earlier this year, NCAA officials confirmed that they would be expanding the tournament field to 68 teams and now college sports organizations have decided how the new field will play out.

The last four seeds will face off in two early games. This group will most likely be made up of automatic bids to small conferences and it will essentially eliminate the two teams which aren't prepared to play effectively on a national stage. The move has already drawn some criticism from open-tournament advocates who feel that seeding is designed to enrich the power conferences at the expense of smaller more deserving school.

As for the other early games they will feature the last four at-large bid recipients which generally represent the some of the larger conferences.

"You're not going to come up with a model that is going to appease every constituency out there," said NCAA committee chairman Dan Guerrero. "But we felt that this model provided the opportunity to do something special for the tournament."

Once the four early games are complete the remaining 64 teams will begin play as usual. Due to the early start the release of the brackets will need to be completed by Tuesday evening just two days after the Sunday night release of the seedings. Online sports books will offer the convenience of instant entries avoiding the need to pass out and collect bracket sheets. This makes it very likely that more players will be forced to rely on online gambling sites to place a bet on their predictions than ever before.