“The issues are complex, but essentially, there are enough stakeholders who’d prefer to stay at four because of the advantages it gives them over growing to eight. Therefore, the likelihood of a 12-team version — there will even be some chatter about a 10-team tournament as a compromise — has bubbled up.”

1. Who prefers four over eight?
2. The 10 team tournament sounds intriguing. I prefer the 8 team version but a couple of play in games wouldn’t be that bad.