NCAA 디비전 I 남자 농구 토너먼트

NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
NCAA 디비전 I 남자 농구 토너먼트
현재 시즌, 대회 또는 에디션:
Current sports event 2024 NCAA 디비전 I 남자 농구 대회
스포츠농구.
설립된1939; 85년전 (1939)
첫번째 시즌1939
조직체NCAA
팀 수68
나라미국
가장 최근
챔피언
UCon Huskies (5번째 타이틀)
(2023)
대부분의 제목UCLA (11)
TV 협력사NCAA 3월의 광란
(CBS/TBS/TNT/TruTV)
CBS 스포츠 네트워크 (재방송)
갈라비시온 (스페인어 보도)
스트리밍 파트너파라마운트+
맥스.[1]
공식 홈페이지ncaa.com/basketball

NCAA 디비전 1 남자 농구 토너먼트미국 대학 체육 협회디비전 1 수준의 남자 대학 농구 전국 챔피언을 결정하기 위해 미국에서 열리는 싱글 엘리미네이션 토너먼트입니다. 3월에 주로 열리는 이 대회는 68개 팀으로 구성되어 있으며 1939년에 처음 개최되었습니다. 선호하는 팀들의 분란으로 유명한 이곳은 미국에서 가장 큰 연례 스포츠 행사 중 하나가 되었습니다.

68개 팀으로 구성된 이 팀은 2011년에 채택되었으며, 1985년 64개 팀으로 확대된 이후로 큰 변화가 없었습니다. 그 전에는 토너먼트 규모가 적게는 8개에서 많게는 53개까지 다양했습니다. 1975년 대규모 입찰이 연장되고 1979년까지 팀들이 완전히 시드를 받지 못할 때까지 이 필드는 컨퍼런스 챔피언으로 제한되었습니다. 2020년에는 코로나19 팬데믹으로 인해 처음으로 대회가 취소되었고, 다음 시즌에는 예방 차원에서 인디애나주에서 대회가 완전히 진행되었습니다.

지금까지 37개의 다른 학교들이 토너먼트에서 우승했습니다. UCLA는 11개의 선수권 대회로 가장 많은 대회를 보유하고 있고, 그들의 코치 존 우든은 10개의 대회로 모든 코치 중 가장 많은 타이틀을 보유하고 있습니다. 켄터키대(영국)는 8개, 노스캐롤라이나대는 6개, 듀크대, 코네티컷대, 인디애나대는 5개, 캔자스대(KU)는 4개, 빌라노바대는 3개의 대회가 있습니다. 7개 프로그램이 두 번의 전국대회와 동률을 이루고 있고, 23개 팀이 전국대회에서 한 번 우승한 적이 있습니다.

모든 토너먼트 경기는 CBS, TBS, TNT, tru에서 중계합니다.NCAA March Madness라는 프로그램명으로 TV. 2032년까지 계약된 파라마운트 글로벌워너 브라더스. Discovery는 연간 8억 9,100만 달러를 방송권료로 지불합니다. NCAA는 참가 팀들이 얼마나 진출했는지에 따라 수익을 배분하는데, 이는 대학 운동에 상당한 자금을 제공합니다. 토너먼트는 가장 많은 경기의 결과를 정확하게 예측하여 상금과 상품을 수여하는 브라켓 콘테스트를 통해 미국 대중 문화의 일부가 되었습니다. 2023년 스포츠 일러스트레이티드는 매년 약 6천만에서 1억 개의 괄호가 채워진다고 보고했습니다.

역사

초창기 (1939년 ~ 1970년)

첫 번째 토너먼트는 1939년에 열렸고 오리건이 우승했습니다. 그것은 오하이오 주의 감독 해럴드 올슨의 아이디어였습니다. 전미 농구 코치 협회는 NCAA를 위해 첫 번째 토너먼트를 운영했습니다.

1939년부터 1950년까지 NCAA 토너먼트는 8개의 팀으로 구성되었으며, 각각의 팀은 지리적 구역에서 선택되었습니다. 여러 회의가 각 구역의 일부로 간주되었는데, 한 구역의 미주리 밸리와 빅 세븐 회의, 다른 구역의 남부남동부 회의 등이 이로 인해 상위 순위 팀이 토너먼트에서 제외되는 경우가 많았습니다. 이 문제는 1950년 NCAA가 3위 켄터키주와 5위 노스캐롤라이나주에 플레이오프를 치러야 한다고 제안했을 때 불거졌지만 켄터키주는 더 높은 순위의 팀으로 입찰을 받아야 한다고 믿고 거절했습니다. 이에 대응하여 NCAA는 1951년에 경기장을 16개로 두 배로 늘렸고, 2개의 지구와 6개의 대형 팀을 위한 자리를 추가했습니다. 컨퍼런스는 여전히 토너먼트에 한 팀만 참여할 수 있었지만, 이제 대규모 입찰을 통해 동일한 지역의 여러 컨퍼런스를 포함할 수 있습니다. 이러한 발전은 NCAA가 명성을 얻기 위해 전국 초청 토너먼트와 경쟁하는 데 도움이 되었습니다.[2]

8개의 팀 형식으로 진행되는 이번 대회는 동부와 서부 지역으로 나뉘어 전국 챔피언 결정전에서 챔피언들이 모였습니다. 각 지역별 첫 두 라운드는 같은 장소와 전국 선수권 대회에서 진행되었고, 1946년부터는 1주일 후에 패자부활전이 열렸습니다. 어떤 해에는 전국 선수권 대회 장소가 지역 선수권 대회와 같은 장소였고, 다른 해에는 새로운 장소였습니다. 16개 팀으로 확대되면서 이 대회는 1951년 지역 결승전이었던 전국 준결승전의 원형을 유지했습니다. 1952년 대회의 경우, East-1, East-2, West-1, West-2로 명명된 4개의 지역이 각각 다른 장소에서 경기를 치렀습니다. 지역 챔피언들은 1주일 후 별도의 장소에서 준결승전과 챔피언십을 위해 만났고, 토너먼트의 두 번의 결승전으로 형식을 확립했습니다(비록 "파이널 포"라는 이름은 1980년대까지 브랜딩에서 사용되지 않았습니다).

1953년 대회는 22개 팀으로 확대되었고, 5라운드를 추가하여 10개 팀이 지역 준결승에 진출했습니다. 앞으로 20년 동안 팀 수는 22개에서 25개로 변동이 심하지만 라운드 수는 그대로입니다. 이중 지역 이름은 1956년에 동부, 중서부, 서부 및 극동 지역으로 명명될 때까지 유지되었습니다. 1957년, 그 지역들은 1985년까지 남아있던 동부, 중동, 중서부, 서부로 명명되었습니다. 지역은 지리적 위치에 따라 전국 준결승에서 짝을 이루었고, 동부 두 지역은 한 준결승에서, 서부 두 지역은 다른 준결승에서 만났습니다.

1946년부터 챔피언 결정전에 전국 3위 경기가 열렸습니다. 지역별 3위 경기는 1939년부터 서양에서, 1941년부터 동양에서 진행되었습니다. 1951년 확장에도 불구하고 3위 경기를 가진 지역은 여전히 두 곳뿐이었습니다. 1952년 대회는 4개의 지역이 각각 3위를 차지했습니다.

이 대회의 시대는 전국 초청 대회와의 경쟁이 특징이었습니다. NCAA 대회 1년 전에 메트로폴리탄 농구 작가 협회에 의해 설립된 NIT는 전적으로 뉴욕 매디슨 스퀘어 가든에서 열렸습니다. 뉴욕이 미국에서 언론의 중심지였기 때문에 NIT는 초기에 NCAA 토너먼트보다 더 많은 취재를 받기도 했습니다. 또한, NCAA 토너먼트에서는 좋은 팀들이 종종 제외되었는데, 이는 각 컨퍼런스마다 한 번의 입찰만 가능했기 때문이며, 1950년 이전에는 8개 구역 체제로 인해 컨퍼런스 챔피언들이 제외되었기 때문입니다. 팀들은 처음 10년 동안 두 대회에 자주 출전했고, 뉴욕 시립 대학은 1950년 NITNCAA 대회에서 모두 우승했습니다. 얼마 지나지 않아 NCAA는 두 대회에 팀들이 참가하는 것을 금지했습니다.

전근대(1971~1984)

1970년대 초반의 두 가지 주요한 변화는 NCAA가 대학 농구의 탁월한 포스트시즌 토너먼트가 되도록 이끌었습니다. 먼저 NCAA는 1971년 NCAA 대회 초청을 거절한 팀들이 포스트시즌 대회에 참가하는 것을 금지하는 규정을 추가했습니다. 이것은 8위인 Marquette1970년에 초청을 거절하고 대신 Al McGuire 감독이 지역 배치에 대해 불평한 후 NIT에 참가하여 우승한 것에 대한 응답이었습니다. 그 이후로 NCAA 토너먼트는 분명히 메이저 대회였고, 컨퍼런스 챔피언들과 대부분의 상위권 팀들이 참가했습니다.[3] 둘째, NCAA는 1975년부터 회의당 여러 팀을 허용했습니다. 이는 1970년대 초반에 몇몇 높은 순위의 팀들이 입찰을 거부당한 것에 대한 반응이었습니다. 여기에는 1970년 컨퍼런스 플레이에서 패배하지 않았지만 ACC 토너먼트에서 패배한 사우스 캐롤라이나, 1971년 2위 USC, 그리고 그들의 컨퍼런스가 최상위 UCLA에 의해 대표되었기 때문에 제외된 1974년 메릴랜드가 포함되었습니다. 3위에 올랐으나 ACC 토너먼트 챔피언 결정전에서 최종 전국 챔피언 노스캐롤라이나주에 패했습니다.

큰 규모의 입찰을 수용하기 위해 1975년 대회가 32개 팀으로 확장되어 컨퍼런스 챔피언 외에 두 번째 팀이 컨퍼런스를 대표할 [4]수 있도록 허용하고 바이즈를 제거했습니다. 1979년 대회는 40개 팀으로 확대되어 6라운드를 추가했습니다; 24개 팀이 2라운드에서 부전승을 거두었습니다. 1980년에 8개 팀이 추가되었고, 16개 팀만이 부표를 받았고, 한 회의의 대규모 입찰 횟수 제한이 사라졌습니다.[4] 1983년에는 4개의 플레이 인 게임이 있는 7라운드가 추가되었고, 1984년에는 플레이 인 게임이 추가되었습니다. 1973년부터 전국 4강을 위한 지역 페어는 항상 동부와 서부 두 지역이 경기하는 대신 1년 단위로 회전되었습니다.

파종은 또한 이 시대에 시작되어 드라마를 추가하고 더 나은 팀이 파이널 포로 가는 더 나은 길을 갖도록 보장합니다. 1978년, 팀들은 그들의 자격 방법에 따라 두 개의 개별 풀에서 시드를 받았습니다. 각 지역에는 자동으로 Q1-Q4 순위를 획득한 4개 팀과 L1-L4 순위를 획득한 4개 팀이 있습니다. 1979년에는 각 지역의 모든 팀들이 예선 방식에 관계없이 1번부터 10번까지 시드를 받았습니다.

국가대항전은 토요일로, 선수권은 1973년 월요일 저녁으로 옮겨져 지금까지 남아 있습니다. 토요일에 선수권 대회가 열리기 전에, 그리고 이틀 전에 준결승전이 있었습니다.

3위 게임은 이 시대에 탈락했는데, 마지막 지역 3위 게임은 1975년에, 마지막 전국 3위 게임은 1981년에 진행되었습니다.

근대(1985~현재)

1985년, 토너먼트는 64개 팀으로 확장되어 모든 바이와 플레이 인을 제거했습니다. 처음으로, 모든 팀이 토너먼트에서 승리하기 위해 6게임을 이겨야 했습니다. 이러한 확장은 미국 문화에서 언론 보도와 인기 증가로 이어졌습니다. 2001년까지 각 지역의 두 곳에서 1차와 2차 라운드가 진행되었습니다.

1985년, 중동 지역은 동남 지역으로 이름이 바뀌었습니다. 1997년 동남부 지역은 남부 지역이 되었습니다. 2004년부터 2006년까지 이 지역은 2004년 피닉스 지역, 2005년 시카고 지역, 2006년 미니애폴리스 지역 등 개최 도시의 이름을 따서 명명되었지만 2007년부터 전통적인 지리학적 지정으로 되돌아갔습니다. 2011년 대회의 경우 사우스 리전은 동남 리전, 중서부 리전은 서남 리전으로, 둘 다 2012년에 이전 이름으로 돌아갔습니다.

1996 파이널 포는 농구를 위해 특별히 만들어진 장소에서 열린 마지막 경기였습니다. 그 이후로 파이널 포는 대형 실내 축구 경기장에서 독점적으로 경기가 진행되었습니다.

2001년부터 필드가 64개 팀에서 65개 팀으로 확장되어 비공식적으로 "플레이게임"이라고 알려진 토너먼트가 추가되었습니다. 이는 1999년 마운틴 웨스트 컨퍼런스가 창설된 것에 대한 응답이었습니다. 원래 마운틴 웨스트 대회 우승자는 자동 입찰을 받지 못했는데, 그렇게 하면 대형 입찰 중 하나가 제거될 것이기 때문입니다. NCAA는 대형 입찰을 없애는 대안으로 대회를 65개 팀으로 확대했습니다. 64번과 65번 시드는 16번 시드로 지역별 브라켓에 시드를 배정받은 뒤 대회 첫 주말인 화요일에 개막전을 치렀습니다. 이 경기는 항상 오하이오 데이턴에 있는 데이턴 대학 아레나에서 열렸습니다.

선정위원회는 2004년부터 1위 종자 중 종합순위를 공개했습니다. 이 순위에 따라 지역은 두 팀이 파이널 포에 진출할 경우 종합 시드 1위가 4위를 차지하는 국가 준결승전을 치르도록 짝을 지었습니다. 이는 1996년 켄터키주가 매사추세츠주와 파이널 4를 치렀을 때와 같이 결승전 전에 상위 두 팀이 만나는 것을 막기 위한 것이었습니다. 이전에는 지역 페어링이 매년 회전했습니다.

2010년에는 토너먼트 규모를 128개 팀으로 늘릴 것이라는 추측이 있었습니다. 2010년 4월 1일, NCAA는 2011년 96개 팀으로 확장하는 것을 고려하고 있다고 발표했습니다. 그러나 3주 후 NCAA는 CBS/터너와 2011년부터 96개 팀이 아닌 68개 팀으로 경기장을 확장하는 새로운 텔레비전 계약을 발표했습니다. First Four는 3개의 플레이 인 게임이 추가되어 만들어졌습니다.[5] 첫 번째 네 게임 중 두 게임은 16개의 시드를 서로 맞춥니다. 그러나 다른 두 게임은 마지막 대규모 입찰을 서로에게 건다. 대규모 팀의 시드 배정은 선정위원회에서 결정되며, 팀의 진정한 시드 순위에 따라 변동됩니다. 이러한 형식의 이유를 설명하면서, 댄 게레로 선정위원장은 "우리는 만약 우리가 경기장을 확장할 것이라면 퍼스트 포가 훨씬 더 흥미진진하다면 대회를 위해 더 좋은 드라마를 만들 것이라고 느꼈습니다. 그들은 모두 10번 라인 또는 12번 라인 또는 11번 라인에 있을 수 있습니다."[5] 이 확장의 일환으로 64강은 2라운드로, 32강은 3라운드로 이름이 바뀌었고, 첫 번째 4강은 공식적으로 1라운드가 되었습니다.[5] 2016년 64강과 32강은 이전 명칭인 1라운드와 2라운드로 돌아갔고, 1라운드 4강이 개막전의 공식 명칭이 되었습니다.[6]

2016년 NCAA는 각 토너먼트 경기장의 완전 브랜드 코트를 포함하여 토너먼트 전반의 브랜드화를 위한 새로운 "NCAA March Madness" 로고를 도입했습니다. 이전에 NCAA는 기존의 코트 또는 일반 NCAA 코트를 사용했습니다.

2017년부터 전체 1위 시드는 1, 2라운드 게임과 잠재적인 지역 게임을 위한 사이트를 선택합니다. 또한 선정위원회는 선정 일요일 3주 전부터 상위 16개 시드를 브라켓 프리뷰로 공개하기 시작했습니다.

코로나19 팬데믹으로 인해 NCAA는 2020년 대회를 취소했습니다. 처음에 NCAA는 파이널 포 개최 도시인 애틀랜타에서 16개 팀만 참가하는 단축 버전을 개최하는 것에 대해 논의했습니다. 방대한 규모의 팬데믹이 이해되자 NCAA는 대회를 취소하여 개최되지 않는 첫 번째 대회가 되었고, 선정위원회가 작업 중이던 브라켓을 공개하지 않기로 결정했습니다.

2021년에는 여행을 줄이기 위해 인디애나 주에서 대회를 개최했습니다. 이것은 지금까지 토너먼트가 한 주에서 진행된 유일한 경우였습니다. 코로나19 예방 조치로 모든 참가 팀은 NCAA가 제공하는 숙소에서 패배할 때까지 머물러야 했습니다. 대회 시작 전 코로나19 평가를 위한 연장된 시간을 제공하기 위해 일정을 조정했는데, 1차전은 목요일에, 1차전과 2차전은 금요일-월요일 창으로 하루 밀렸고, 스위트 식스틴과 엘리트 에이트도 금요일-월요일 창으로 밀렸습니다. 선정위원회에서 69-72로 순위가 매겨진 팀들은 괄호가 발표된 후 48시간 동안 코로나19 프로토콜로 인해 토너먼트에서 탈퇴한 팀을 대체하기 위해 대기 상태에 놓였습니다. 코로나19로 인해 단 한 경기만 노 콘테스트로 선언되었고, 오리건주는 코로나19 프로토콜로 인해 VCU가 참가하지 못해 2라운드에 진출했습니다. VCU는 브라켓이 발표된 지 이틀이 넘도록 코로나19 감염이 시작됐기 때문에 처음 4개 팀 중 한 팀으로 교체되지 않았습니다. 토너먼트는 2022년에 정규 형식으로 돌아갔습니다.

2021년 여자 토너먼트 선수들의 시설 품질과 브랜딩이 다르다는 항의에 따라 2022년부터 남자 토너먼트와 여자 토너먼트 모두 남성 토너먼트에서 사용하는 것과 동일한 토너먼트 전체 로고의 변형으로 "NCAA March Madness"로 브랜드화되었습니다. 또한, 남자 토너먼트의 파이널 포는 "남자 파이널 포"로 2022년부터 브랜드화되었으며, 이는 1987년부터 그 토너먼트에 사용된 "여자 파이널 포" 브랜드를 반영합니다.

팀들[7] 바이즈 은 으로 진행되었습니다. 메모들
1939–40 0 8 8 0 3 0 8 각은 한 4 은 1952 이며, 3 은 1939 되며, 은 1 됩니다.
1941–45 9 3
1946–50 10 3
1951 10 6 16 4 18 팀으로 팀 16개 되며, 된 10개 된 6개 , 1개
1952 20 이스트1 이스트2 웨스트 1 웨스트2 전 4, 3
1953 14 8 22 10 5 26 1 전
1954–55 15 9 24 8 28
1956 17 8 25 7 29
1957 16 7 23 9 27
1958 8 24 8 28
1959 7 23 9 27
1960 14 11 25 7 29
1961 15 9 24 8 28
1962–64 10 25 7 29
1965 8 23 9 27
1966 14 22 10 26
1967–68 15 23 9 27
1969-70 10 25 7 29
1971 , 1971년 의 합니다.
1972–74 16 9
1975 20 12 32 0 36 은 되며, 3됩니다와 경기를 치렀습니다.
1976–77 21 11 32
1978 및 를 받은 1978년
1979 23 17 40 24 6 40 전, 4 2
1980 25 48 16 48
1981 22 26 3 에서
1982 28 20 47
1983 24 52 16 7 4 51 인 팀이 4되고, 16개 이 32합니다.
1984 29 53 5 52 11번 5번 시드 인
1985 35 64 0 6 0 63 은 1985년
1986 30 34
1987 29 35
1988-90 30 34
1991 29 35
1992–97 30 34
1998–2000 지역은 은 1998년 되었습니다에서 되었습니다.
2001 31 65 7 1 64 16 되었습니다를 인 되었습니다.
2002–03 번째 와 두 를 위해 2002년 부터 1, 2 합니다를 합니다.
2004 세인트루이스 4 된 #1 하기 위해 1
2005 앨버커키
2006 .
2007–10
2011 37 68 4 67 변경 Four , true seed list , 64, 32 2, 3
2012–2013
2014–15 32 36
2016 1, 는 64강 32은 1, 2되고 "First Four" 의 이 됨
2017–19 , 및 1, 2 1, 3 16 합니다. , 3 16
2020 Pandemic Pandemic 으로로 인해
2021 31 37 68 0 7 4 66 코로나19 예방 조치로 인해 인디애나주에서 모든 경기가 진행되었습니다.
2022~ 32 36 67

포맷

미주리주 .

토너먼트는 68개 팀이 7라운드의 싱글 엘리미네이션 브라켓에서 경쟁합니다. 32개 팀은 컨퍼런스 토너먼트에서 우승하여 자동으로 토너먼트에 진출하고, 36개 팀은 시즌 중 성적에 따라 대규모 입찰을 받아 토너먼트에 진출합니다.[8] 선정위원회는 대규모 입찰을 결정하고, 1위부터 68위까지 모든 팀을 순위를 매기고, 각 팀을 순위권 안에 넣는데, 이 모든 것이 대회 전 일요일 언론과 팬들에 의해 '선정선데이'로 명명되어 공개됩니다. 토너먼트 중에는 리시드가 없으며 이후 각 라운드의 매치업은 브라켓에 의해 미리 결정됩니다.

토너먼트는 4개의 지역으로 나뉘며 각 지역에는 16~18개의 팀이 있습니다. 지역의 이름은 해마다 다른 미국의 광범위한 지리적 지역의 이름을 따서 지어졌습니다.

토너먼트는 주말 3회에 걸쳐 진행되며, 주말마다 2회씩 진행됩니다. 첫 번째 주말 전에 8개 팀이 첫 번째 4강에 진출하기 위해 경쟁합니다. 두 경기는 가장 낮은 순위의 컨퍼런스 챔피언과 가장 낮은 순위의 대규모 예선을 짝지어줍니다. 1, 2차전은 1차 주말에, 2차전은 2차 주말에, 지역 4강 및 지역 결승전은 3차 주말에, 전국 4강 및 챔피언 결정전은 4강 및 챔피언 결정전으로 진행됩니다. 지역 라운드는 스위트 식스틴 앤 엘리트 에이트로, 세 번째 주말은 파이널 포로 브랜드화되며, 모두 라운드 초반에 남은 팀의 수를 따서 이름을 지었습니다. 퍼스트 포를 포함한 모든 경기가 예정되어 있어 각 경기 사이에 팀들이 하루 휴식일을 갖게 됩니다. 이 형식은 2011년부터 사용되고 있으며, 2021년에는 코로나19 팬데믹으로 인해 일정이 약간 변경되었습니다.[citation needed]



. 일주일
First Four () 68 8 4 첫 번째
1 64 64 32
2 32 32 16 ·
( 4) 16 16 8 두번째
() 8 8 4 ·
( 4) 4 4 2 세번째
2 2 1 .

NCAA가 임명한 회의 위원들과 대학 운동 감독들이 포함된 선발 위원회가 토너먼트 전 한 주 동안 순위를 결정합니다. 같은 주에 열리는 여러 컨퍼런스 토너먼트의 결과가 브라켓에 상당한 영향을 미칠 수 있기 때문에, 위원회는 종종 다른 결과에 대해 여러 브라켓을 만듭니다.

괄호를 만들기 위해 위원회는 전체 필드를 1에서 68까지 순위를 매깁니다. 이를 진정한 시드라고 합니다. 그런 다음 위원회는 4개 지역으로 팀을 나누고 각 팀에게 1번과 16번 사이의 시드를 부여합니다. 모든 지역에서 동일한 4개의 종자를 종자 라인(즉, 6번 종자 라인)이라고 합니다. 8개 팀이 2배로 증가하여 First Four에서 경쟁합니다. 짝을 이룬 두 팀은 16번 시드를 놓고 경쟁하고, 나머지 두 짝을 이룬 팀은 대회에서 마지막으로 입찰을 받은 대규모 팀으로 전체적으로 팀의 진정한 시드에 따라 매년 달라지는 10번에서 14번 범위의 시드 라인을 놓고 경쟁합니다.[9]

전체 종자 상위 4개가 각 지역에서 1위 종자로 배치됩니다. 모든 1번 시드가 파이널 포 트루 시드에 도달하면 1번 시드가 4번, 2번 시드가 3번 시드가 되도록 지역이 짝을 이룹니다. 5번 진종자와 1번 진종자가 짝을 이루지 않도록 2번 팀을 배치하는 것이 좋습니다. 위원회는 각 지역의 상위 4개 종자의 진정한 종자 값을 합산하고 각 지역 간의 값을 비교함으로써 경쟁력 있는 균형을 보장합니다. 상당한 편차가 있는 경우 일부 팀은 실제 시드 분포의 균형을 맞추기 위해 지역 간에 이동합니다.[9]

상위 4개 시드에 2~4개 팀이 포함된 컨퍼런스는 다른 지역에 배치됩니다. 그렇지 않으면 같은 콘퍼런스 소속 팀들은 시즌에 3번 이상 경기한 경우 지역 결승전 전 재경기, 2번 경기한 경우 지역 준결승전, 1번 경기한 경우 2라운드 전 재경기를 피하도록 배치됩니다. 또한 위원회는 정규 시즌과 전년도 대회인 퍼스트 포의 재경기를 피하는 것이 좋습니다. 마지막으로, 위원회는 한 팀이 선호하는 지리적 지역에서 이전 두 대회에서의 위치에 따라 과도한 횟수로 이동하지 않도록 노력할 것입니다. 이러한 규칙과 선호도를 지키기 위해 위원회는 예상되는 시드 라인에서 팀을 이동시킬 수 있습니다. 따라서, 예를 들어, 원래 특정 지역 내 10위 시드로 예정되어 있던 전체 순위 40위 팀은 대신 9위 시드로 올라가거나 11위 시드로 내려올 수 있습니다.[9]

위원회는 2012년부터 브라켓을 발표한 후 1~68번의 진종자 명단을 공개했습니다.[9] 선정위원회는 2017년부터 선정일요일 3주 전부터 상위 16개 팀의 명단을 공개하고 있습니다. 위원회가 최종 선발 과정을 시작할 때 모든 팀의 순위를 다시 매기기 때문에, 이 목록은 어떤 팀의 입찰도 보장하지 않습니다.[10]

2011년 라운드가 시작된 이래(2021년 제외) 모든 퍼스트 포 게임을 개최해온 데이턴 아레나 대학교는 2001년부터 2010년까지 개최된 단일 "플레이 인" 게임의 전신입니다. 2019년 현재 이 경기장은 123개의 토너먼트 경기를 개최했으며, 이는 모든 경기장 중 가장 많은 것입니다.

퍼스트 포에 출전하는 4개 대형 팀의 시드 라인은 해당 분야 대형 팀의 전체 순위에 따라 매년 달라졌습니다.[9]

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10 2 2024(x2)
11 18 2015~) 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015~2019(x2), 2021(x2), 2022, 2023(x2)
12 4 2011, 2012, 2014, 2022
13 1 2013
14 1 2012

장소

남자 토너먼트에서는 모든 사이트가 명목상 중립입니다. 팀들은 1, 2, 그리고 지역 라운드 동안 홈 코트에서 토너먼트 게임을 하는 것이 금지됩니다. NCAA 규칙에 따라 팀이 정규 시즌 경기를 3회 이상 개최하는 모든 코트(프리시즌 또는 컨퍼런스 토너먼트 경기 제외)는 "홈 코트"로 간주됩니다.[9] First Four와 Final Four의 경우, 홈 코트 금지가 적용되지 않습니다. 이 라운드는 한 경기장에서만 개최되기 때문입니다. 퍼스트 포는 데이턴 플라이어스가 정기적으로 주최합니다. 이와 같이 팀은 2015년에 홈 코트에서 경쟁했습니다.[11] 파이널 포는 실내 축구 경기장에서 개최되기 때문에, 한 팀이 앞으로 홈 코트에서 경기를 할 가능성은 거의 없습니다. 이것이 마지막으로 가능했던 것은 1996년 세톤홀의 홈 코트인 콘티넨탈 에어라인 아레나가 개최된 때입니다.

1라운드와 2라운드의 경우, 8개의 경기장이 경기를 개최하며, 라운드당 4개의 경기장이 있습니다.는 "의 팀으로 된 두 에는 "pods"는 4다. 이동을 제한하기 위해, 파종 규칙이 예방하지 않는 한 팀은 집에 더 가까운 꼬투리에 배치됩니다. 각 포드에는 상위 4개의 시드가 포함되어 있기 때문에 가장 순위가 높은 팀은 일반적으로 가장 가까운 사이트를 얻습니다.

파종에 의한 가능한 꼬투리는 다음과 같습니다.

  • Pod A: 1 v. 16 and 8 v. 9
  • Pod B: 2 v. 15 및 7 v. 10
  • 포드 C: 3 v. 14 및 6 v. 11
  • 포드 D: 4 v. 13 및 5 v. 12

위너스

다음은 NCAA 남자 농구 대회에서 적어도 한 번 이상 우승한 모든 학교의 목록이며, 우승한 해는 다음과 같습니다.

*공백된 제목은 포함되지 않음

1939년부터 NCAA 토너먼트에 총 333개 팀이 출전했습니다. NCAA는 1957년까지 디비전으로 나뉘지 않았기 때문에 토너먼트에 등장한 일부 학교는 더 이상 디비전 I에 속하지 않습니다. Division I 학교 중 Division I로 이행 중인 부적격 학교 11곳을 포함하여 46곳이 토너먼트에 진출한 적이 없습니다.

  • CH 내셔널 챔피언
  • RU 내셔널 준우승
  • F4 파이널 포
  • E8 엘리트 에이트
  • 16 스위트 식스틴 (1951년 시작)
  • 32강 (1975년 시작)
    • 22 23 24 25강 22-25 (1953년에서 1974년 사이, 22-25개 팀이 토너먼트에 초대되었습니다.)
  • 64강전 (1979년 시작). 1985년 이전에 초대된 64개 팀보다 적음)
  • ƒ 플레이라운드 (1983-1984, 2001-2010), 퍼스트 포 (2011-현재)
  • N팀은 그 시즌 NIT에서 우승했습니다.
  • N팀은 그 시즌에 NIT에서 뛰었습니다. NCAA 토너먼트에 한 번도 출전하지 않은 팀은 이 차트에 NIT 출전이 없습니다.
  • CHR F4 E8 16 32 ƒ N 팀은 표시된 배치를 달성했지만 나중에 참가가 취소되었습니다. 이러한 빈 모양은 전체 열에 포함되지 않습니다.

1979년부터 시작되는 각 시즌마다 1번 시드를 받은 4개 팀은 더블 언더라인으로, 2~4번 시드를 받은 12개 팀은 더블 언더라인으로 표시됩니다. 밑줄이 그어진

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UCLA -12 50 37 22 18 12 11 E8 16 16 F4 16 CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH CH F4 CH F4 16 16 E8 32 32 N N 32 32 16 E8 32 CH E8 16 16 16 16 F4 F4 32 32 16 16 16 ƒ F4 16 16
SEC 60 48 38 17 12 8 F4 N E8 N N CH CH N CH E8 16 E8 E8 CH 16 E8 E8 16 E8 16 E8 16 E8 E8 N E8 CH N 16 32 E8 F4 16 E8 16 E8 F4 32 E8 CH CH E8 32 16 16 E8 32 E8 32 32 N E8 F4 CH N F4 32 E8 16 E8 32
ACC 52 37 29 21 12 6 E8 CH 23 F4 F4 N N F4 N N 16 32 32 32 32 CH E8 16 E8 16 E8 E8 16 16 F4 16 CH 32 F4 32 F4 F4 F4 32 N 32 CH 32 E8 F4 CH N E8 E8 32 32 16 CH 32 16
공작 ACC 45 32 23 17 11 5 24 E8 F4 F4 N N N N 32 E8 N 32 32 16 F4 F4 CH CH 32 32 E8 16 CH 16 16 F4 16 16 32 16 CH 16 E8 CH 16 32 E8 E8 F4 32
인디애나 주 41 23 11 8 6 5 CH CH 16 16 16 N F4 E8 CH 16 N 16 CH 32 16 E8 N CH 16 16 F4 E8 16 32 32 32 N 32 32 16 16 16 N N 32
유콘 35 18 12 6 5 5 16 24 N 16 23 24 23 25 25 E8 23 23 N N 16 32 N N N N N E8 16 32 N 16 E8 16 N E8 CH 32 N E8 16 CH 32 E8 F4 N CH CH N 32 CH
캔자스 . 12 12 51 34 25 16 10 4 E8 CH E8 E8 16 N N F4 F4 32 32 16 32 32 F4 16 CH 32 32 F4 16 16 E8 16 32 32 32 16 F4 E8 E8 CH 16 32 E8 16 32 32 E8 E8 F4 32 32 CH 32
40 21 14 6 3 3 F4 E8 16 16 N N E8 N 16 N N N N 25 E8 16 N E8 32 32 E8 E8 32 CH 32 N E8 N 32 N N 32 32 N N N N N 16 E8 16 F4 32 32 32 CH 32 CH 32 16 F4 N
36 21 14 10 3 2 F4 E8 E8 CH N 16 N 16 32 32 N 32 N N 16 F4 CH F4 E8 F4 32 16 F4 16 16 E8 F4 32 32 F4 ƒ 32 16
12 12 29 14 11 6 3 2 N N CH CH F4 E8 E8 N E8 E8 N N 16 16 32 32 F4 N 32 32 E8 32 F4 16 N N N 32 N N 32 N
신시내티 빅12 33 13 8 6 3 2 N N N 16 F4 F4 CH CH RU 16 N N 16 32 32 N N N F4 E8 32 E8 32 32 32 32 16 32 32 32 N N 32 16 32 32 32 N
플로리다 21 10 9 5 3 2 N N N N 16 32 N N F4 N 16 RU 32 32 32 CH CH N N E8 E8 E8 F4 N E8 32 32 32 N N
루이빌 ACC 39 25 12 8 2 2 16 N N N N N F4 16 25 N 16 16 N N N F4 N 16 F4 N 32 16 16 CH 32 F4 F4 16 N CH 16 16 32 32 16 16 16 E8 N 32 F4 N 32 E8 E8 F4 CH 16 E8 32 N
샌프란시스코 서해안 17 12 7 3 2 2 N N CH CH F4 16 16 E8 E8 N 16 E8 E8 N 32 16 16 N N
NC 주 ACC 26 14 6 3 2 2 N N F4 E8 16 16 25 16 16 CH N N 32 CH N E8 E8 16 32 N N N N 32 32 16 32 N N 16 16 N N
오하이오 주 빅 텐 31 19 14 10 5 1 RU F4 F4 F4 E8 CH RU RU F4 E8 N 16 16 N 32 N 32 N N 32 16 E8 N F4 32 32 N 32 RU N 16 16 F4 E8 32 N 32 32 32
미시간 주 빅 텐 27 17 13 6 5 1 E8 F4 RU E8 N E8 32 RU E8 N N N 32 32 32 16 CH 32 N RU RU E8 N 32 N N N N 32 32 RU E8 16 RU 16 E8 16 N
조지타운 빅 이스트 31 12 9 5 4 1 RU N N 32 32 N N 32 E8 RU 32 CH RU 32 E8 32 E8 32 32 32 N 32 16 E8 N N N 16 N N 16 F4 32 N 32 N 32 N
시라쿠사 ACC 37 23 9 6 3 1 N N E8 N E8 N N N 16 25 F4 32 16 32 16 16 N N 32 16 32 32 RU 32 E8 16 32 16 32 RU N 16 16 32 N CH 16 N N 16 16 32 E8 F4 32 F4 N 16 16
아칸소 주 35 17 11 6 2 1 F4 F4 E8 16 32 F4 E8 16 32 16 32 32 N 32 F4 E8 32 16 CH RU 16 N 32 32 32 N 32 32 N E8 E8 16
애리조나 주 팩-12 35 20 11 4 2 1 N N 16 E8 32 F4 16 32 16 F4 16 CH E8 32 RU 16 E8 E8 32 16 E8 N 16 E8 E8 16 16
유타 주 팩-12 29 18 7 4 2 1 CH E8 N N 16 E8 N N 16 16 F4 F4 N N 16 16 16 16 N N 16 N 32 32 16 E8 RU 32 32 N 32 16 N 16 32 N N
위스콘신 주 빅 텐 26 12 6 4 2 1 CH E8 N N N 32 N F4 32 16 32 E8 32 16 32 32 16 16 F4 RU 16 16 32 32 N
마켓켓 빅 이스트 35 16 7 3 2 1 E8 N 16 24 N N 16 E8 N 16 16 16 RU 32 E8 CH 32 16 N 32 N N N N N 16 N 32 N N F4 N N 32 32 16 16 E8 N 32
베일러 빅12 15 8 6 3 2 1 E8 RU F4 N N N N E8 E8 N 16 16 N 32 CH 32 32
캘리포니아 팩-12 18 7 5 3 2 1 F4 E8 E8 CH RU N N N 32 16 16 N N 32 32 N 32 N ƒ 32 N N
라살 대서양 10 12 3 2 2 2 1 N N N N N CH RU N N 23 N 32 32 N N 32 N N 16
UNLV 마운틴 웨스트 20 10 5 4 1 1 16 16 F4 N N 32 16 32 16 F4 32 E8 CH F4 N N N N N N N 16 32 N
버지니아 주 ACC 25 10 7 3 1 1 N N 32 N N N F4 16 E8 F4 N E8 32 N 16 32 E8 N N N N N 32 N 16 32 E8 32 CH N
오리건 주 팩-12 17 10 7 2 1 1 CH E8 E8 24 N N N N N N N N E8 N E8 N 16 32 32 E8 F4 N 16 16 N N
메릴랜드 주 빅 텐 29 14 4 2 1 1 16 N E8 E8 N 16 32 N 32 16 16 32 32 N 16 16 16 16 32 F4 CH 16 32 N N 32 N 32 32 N 32 16 32 32 32
성십자가 패트리어트 13 4 4 2 1 1 CH F4 E8 N E8 N N 25 N N N N N 32 N N N N
스탠퍼드 팩-12 17 6 3 2 1 1 CH N N N N 32 32 16 F4 32 32 E8 32 32 32 N 16 N N 16 N N
로욜라 시카고 대서양 10 8 5 2 2 1 1 N N N CH 16 22 23 N 16 F4 N 16
CCNY D3 2 2 2 2 1 1 N N F4 N CH
와이오밍 주 마운틴 웨스트 16 9 6 1 1 1 E8 CH E8 E8 E8 E8 16 24 16 N N 32 32 N 16 N N N N 32 N ƒ
UTEP CUSA 17 4 1 1 1 1 25 16 N CH 16 25 N 32 N N N 32 32 32 32 16 N N N N N N
휴스턴 빅12 24 15 7 6 2 - 16 16 N 16 16 F4 F4 16 16 25 25 N 32 F4 RU RU N N N N N N N N N 32 16 F4 E8 16
오클라호마 주 빅12 33 14 9 5 2 - F4 E8 RU N N 16 N 32 32 E8 32 16 RU 16 32 N N N 16 32 F4 E8 N 32 32 E8 16 F4 32 32 N
곤자가 서해안 25 13 5 2 2 - N N N E8 16 16 32 32 32 16 16 32 32 32 32 32 E8 16 RU 16 E8 RU 16 E8
다트머스 아이비리그 7 6 5 2 2 - E8 RU E8 RU 16 E8 23
브래들리 미주리 밸리 9 4 3 2 2 - N N N RU RU E8 N N N N N N N N N N 32 N N N N N 16 N N
집사 빅 이스트 16 6 2 2 2 - N N 16 N N N N 32 N 16 N 16 32 RU RU 32 32 32 16 32 N
일리노이 주 빅 텐 33 13 9 5 1 - E8 F4 F4 F4 E8 N 16 N E8 16 32 32 F4 32 N 32 32 32 E8 16 32 16 RU 32 N 32 32 N N N 32 32
캔자스 주 빅12 32 19 13 4 1 - F4 RU 16 F4 E8 E8 F4 16 16 E8 E8 E8 N 16 32 E8 16 32 E8 N N N N N 32 N E8 32 32 E8 E8
아이오와 주 빅 텐 29 8 4 3 1 - F4 RU 16 32 F4 32 32 16 E8 16 32 32 32 32 N 32 32 N 16 32 N N N N N ƒ 32 32 N 32 32
세인트존스 빅 이스트 29 9 6 2 1 - N N N N N N N N N E8 RU N N N N 24 N N N 16 23 16 N N N 25 N N 32 32 32 E8 32 N 32 16 F4 32 32 N 32 E8 32 N E8 32 N N N N ƒ
퍼듀 빅 텐 33 13 5 2 1 - RU N N 32 N F4 N N 32 32 32 16 32 N E8 32 32 32 16 16 E8 N 32 N 32 32 16 16 32 32 16 16 E8 16
조지아 테크 ACC 17 7 4 2 1 - E8 N N N E8 16 32 F4 32 16 N 16 N N N RU 32 32 N N
NYU D3 6 6 4 2 1 - E8 RU E8 N N N N F4 16 16 N N N
웨스트버지니아 주 빅12 31 11 3 2 1 - N N N N 24 25 23 24 RU 16 25 16 23 23 N N 32 32 N N 32 N N N N 16 N N E8 16 N 16 F4 32 N 16 16 16 32
멤피스 미국의 22 6 4 1 1 - 24 25 N N N 25 N N N RU N N 32 N 16 16 16 F4 32 32 N N E8 16 N N N N 32 N E8 E8 RU 16 N 32 32 N N 32
데이턴 대서양 10 18 7 3 1 1 - N 16 N N N N N N N N 16 16 RU N 25 25 N 16 N N N N E8 N 32 N N N N 32 N N N E8 32 N N N
플로리다 주 ACC 18 7 3 1 1 - 23 RU 32 32 N N 32 16 E8 N 32 N N N N 16 32 N N N 32 E8 16 16
텍사스 테크 빅12 18 7 2 1 1 - 24 25 16 16 25 16 N N 16 N 32 16 N E8 RU 32 16
세톤홀 빅 이스트 14 4 2 1 1 - N N N N N N N N N N 32 RU E8 16 32 N N N 16 N N 32 N N 32 N
시애틀 WAC 11 5 1 1 1 - N 16 24 16 16 N RU 24 25 25 16 23 25
워싱턴 주 팩-12 6 2 1 1 1 - RU 32 N N N 32 16 N N N N
샌디에이고 주 마운틴 웨스트 15 1 1 1 1 - 32 32 N N N N N 16 32 16 32 N RU
잭슨빌 아순 5 1 1 1 1 - RU 25 N 25 N N N N N
인디애나 주 미주리 밸리 4 1 1 1 1 - N N RU 32 N N
LSU 24 10 6 4 - - F4 16 N 16 E8 F4 N N F4 E8 32 32 16 N N F4 32 N N N 16 32
텍사스 빅12 37 14 7 3 - - E8 F4 F4 N 16 16 16 25 N 32 N N 32 E8 32 32 32 32 16 32 16 F4 16 E8 32 E8 32 32 32 N 32 E8
사원 미국의 33 8 8 2 - - E8 F4 N F4 N N N 25 N 23 N N 25 25 N N N 32 32 32 32 E8 N E8 E8 32 32 32 E8 32 E8 N N N N N 32 32 N N ƒ
오리건 주 팩-12 15 8 7 2 - - E8 F4 E8 E8 F4 25 E8 16 N 32 32 E8 N N N E8
콜로라도 주 팩-12 15 8 6 2 - - E8 F4 E8 16 F4 E8 E8 16 N N 32 N N N N N 32 N N 32 N N
섭리 빅 이스트 22 6 4 2 - - N N N N N 25 E8 22 N N 25 F4 16 N N 32 32 N F4 N N N N E8 N N N N N 32 ƒ N 16
USC 팩-12 20 6 4 2 - - F4 F4 25 16 N 32 32 N N N E8 16 32 ƒ 32 N E8
위치타 주 미국의 16 6 4 2 - - N N N E8 F4 N 32 N E8 N N N N N 16 N N F4 32 16 32 32 N ƒ
드폴 빅 이스트 18 9 3 2 - - N F4 N N N 16 25 16 16 N N N 16 N 16 E8 F4 32 32 32 N 16 16 16 32 32 N N N N N 32 N N
노트르담 ACC 37 17 7 1 - - E8 E8 16 E8 25 25 23 N 25 16 16 N 16 16 16 16 F4 E8 32 16 N N 32 16 32 N N N 32 32 16 N N N 32 N 32 E8 E8 32 N 32
웨이크 포레스트 ACC 23 10 6 1 - - E8 16 E8 F4 E8 32 32 N E8 N 32 16 32 16 E8 32 N N N 32 32 16 32 N 32 ƒ N
산타클라라 서해안 11 7 5 1 - - F4 E8 E8 16 E8 E8 16 N N N N 32 32 N N
워싱턴 팩-12 17 9 4 1 - - E8 E8 E8 F4 32 N N 16 N N N 16 16 16 32 16 32 N N N N 32
피츠버그 ACC 27 8 3 1 - - F4 16 24 25 N E8 N N 32 N N 32 32 32 N N N 16 16 16 32 16 32 E8 32 32 32 N 32
아이비리그 24 6 3 1 - - 16 25 E8 E8 16 25 32 16 F4 32 N 32
드레이크. 미주리 밸리 6 3 3 1 - - N F4 E8 E8 N N
아이오와 주 빅12 22 7 2 1 - - F4 N 16 32 32 32 16 E8 N N 32 32 32 16 16 32 16
SMU 미국의 12 6 2 1 - - 16 F4 16 16 16 E8 32 32 N 32 N N N N
마이애미(FL) ACC 12 5 2 1 - - 25 N N N N N 32 16 N N N 32 N N N 16 N 16 E8 F4
오번 12 5 2 1 - - 16 E8 32 32 N N N N 16 32 N 16 N 32 F4 32 32
펜 주 빅 텐 10 5 2 1 - - E8 16 F4 16 23 N N N N 32 N N N N 16 N N N 32
듀크네 대서양 10 5 3 2 1 - - F4 N N N E8 N N N N N N N 16 N 25 32 N N N N
프린스턴 아이비리그 26 7 1 1 - - 16 16 25 16 25 16 F4 16 25 N N 32 32 32 32 32 N N N N N 16
뉴멕시코 주 CUSA 23 4 1 1 - - N 16 23 25 23 16 16 F4 25 32 N 16 32 N N N 32
사우스캐롤라이나 주 9 4 1 1 - - N 16 16 16 25 N N N N N N N N N N N F4
미시시피 주 12 3 1 1 - - 16 N N N 16 F4 N N 32 32 32 N 32 N N N N N ƒ
성 보나벤처 대서양 10 8 3 1 1 - - N N N N N N 16 N 16 F4 N N 32 N N N N N N N N
조지아 10 2 1 1 - - N N F4 N 32 N N N N 16 N N 32 N N N N N
럿거스 빅 텐 8 2 1 1 - - N N N N 32 F4 N N 16 N 32 N N N N N N N 32 ƒ N
VCU 대서양 10 19 1 1 1 - - N 32 32 32 32 N N N 32 N F4 32 32 32 N
샬롯. 미국의 11 1 1 1 - - N F4 N N 32 32 32 N 32 N N N
조지 메이슨 대서양 10 6 1 1 1 - - N N N F4 N 32
플로리다 애틀랜틱 미국의 2 1 1 1 - - N F4
미주리 주 28 7 4 - - - E8 N N E8 32 16 16 32 N 16 32 E8 32 N N 32 E8 32 N N E8 32 N 32
자비에 빅 이스트 29 9 3 - - - N N N 24 ƒ N 32 16 32 32 N 32 N N 32 32 E8 32 E8 16 16 16 ƒ 16 32 E8 32 N N 16
성 요셉의 집 대서양 10 20 9 3 - - - N N 16 16 F4 16 E8 N 16 16 25 25 N 25 25 N N E8 N N 32 N N N 16 32 N E8 N N N N 32
보스턴 칼리지 ACC 18 8 3 - - - 24 N N E8 23 N N 16 N 16 E8 16 N 16 N N N E8 32 32 32 N 32 32 16 32 N N
BYU 빅12 30 7 3 - - - E8 E8 N N 16 16 N 25 16 25 32 32 E8 N 32 N 32 32 32 N N N N 32 16 N ƒ N N N N
애리조나 주 팩-12 16 4 3 - - - 24 E8 25 E8 25 16 E8 32 32 N N 32 N N N 16 N N N 32 N N 32 N N N ƒ
데이비슨 대서양 10 15 4 3 - - - 16 E8 E8 25 N N N N E8 N N N N N
네이비 패트리어트 11 4 3 - - - E8 22 E8 16 25 N 32 E8
오클라호마시티 NAIA 11 6 2 - - - 16 16 24 24 E8 E8 N 16 25 16 22 N 25
유타 주 마운틴 웨스트 23 4 2 - - - E8 N 16 25 16 N E8 25 32 N N N 32 N N N N N
미국의 4 3 2 - - - E8 E8 N 16 25 N N N N
카니시우스 MAAC 4 3 2 - - - N E8 E8 16 N N N N
테네시 주 25 9 1 - - - N 16 N N 32 32 32 32 16 32 32 N N N N N N 32 16 N N 32 16 16 E8 N N 16 32 16 32 16
앨라배마 주 23 9 1 - - - N 32 16 N N N N 16 16 16 16 16 16 32 N 32 32 N N N 32 E8 32 N N N N N N 32 N 16 16
서부 켄터키 주 CUSA 22 7 1 - - - E8 N N N N N N N N 16 16 N 16 23 25 F4 32 16 N 32 32 N 16 32 N N 16 32 N N
크레이튼 빅 이스트 24 6 1 - - - E8 N N 16 16 16 32 N 32 N N 32 N 32 32 N N N N 32 32 32 N N 16 32 E8
밴더빌트 15 6 1 - - - E8 16 N N 16 N N 16 N N N N N 16 N N 16 32 N ƒ N N
아이다호 주 빅 스카이 11 5 1 - - - 22 16 24 25 16 16 16 25 25 E8
털사 미국의 16 4 1 - - - N 16 N N N 32 N 32 N N 16 16 32 32 E8 N 32 32 N N N ƒ
TCU 빅12 10 4 1 - - - 16 16 16 E8 25 N N 32 N N N N N N 32 32
UAB 미국의 16 3 1 - - - N 16 E8 32 32 N N N N N N N 16 32 N N N ƒ 32 N N
오하이오 주 14 3 1 - - - N 16 24 E8 23 N 25 25 25 32 N N 32 16 N 32
페퍼다인 서해안 13 3 1 - - - E8 16 16 32 N 32 N N N N 32 N
클렘슨 ACC 12 3 1 - - - N N E8 N N N N N 32 16 N N N 16 N N N N N N 16 N N
미네소타 주 빅 텐 10 3 1 - - - 16 N N N 16 N 16 E8 N N 32 N F4 N N N N N N N 32 N 32
태평양의 서해안 9 3 1 - - - 16 E8 16 32 N 32 32
컬럼비아 주 아이비리그 3 3 1 - - - E8 16 16
버지니아 공대 ACC 13 2 1 - - - N E8 N 32 N 32 32 N N N N 32 N 32 N N N N N 16 N
성 마리아 교회 서해안 12 2 1 - - - E8 N 16 N N N N 32 N N 32 32
콜로라도 주 마운틴 웨스트 11 2 1 - - - 16 N N 25 23 22 E8 N 32 N N N N 32 N N N
로드아일랜드 주 대서양 10 10 2 1 - - - N N N N 24 22 32 N N N 16 N 32 N E8 N N N N N N 32 32
세인트루이스 대서양 10 10 2 1 - - - N N N E8 N N N 16 N N N N N N N N 32 N 32 N N 32 32 32 N N
UMass 대서양 10 8 2 1 - - - 25 N N N N N N N N 16 32 32 E8 F4 N N N N N
오랄 로버츠 정상회담 7 2 1 - - - N N E8 N N N N N N 16
로욜라 메리마운트 서해안 4 2 1 - - - 16 N 32 E8
VMI 소콘 3 2 1 - - - 25 E8 16
보스턴 대학교 패트리어트 7 1 1 - - - E8 N ƒ N N N N N
켄트 주 7 1 1 - - - N N N N 32 E8 N N N N N
예일대 아이비리그 6 1 1 - - - E8 23 25 N 32 N
하버드 아이비리그 5 1 1 - - - E8 N 32 32 N N
성 베드로 대성당 MAAC 4 1 1 - - - N N N N N N N N N N N N E8
칼 스테이트 풀러턴 빅 웨스트 4 1 1 - - - E8 N N N
갈색 아이비리그 2 1 1 - - - E8 N
스프링필드 D3 1 1 1 - - - E8
가톨릭의 D3 1 1 1 - - - E8
터프츠 D3 1 1 1 - - - E8
텍사스 A&M 15 6 - - - - 16 25 16 32 N 16 N N N N N 32 16 32 32 32 N 16 16 N
마이애미(OH) 17 4 - - - - 22 24 23 16 22 16 N 25 25 16 N N 32 N 16 N N
남부 일리노이 주 미주리 밸리 10 3 - - - - N N N 16 N N N N N 16 32 16 N
베버 주 빅 스카이 16 2 - - - - 23 16 25 25 16 25 32 32 N 32 32 N N
뉴멕시코 마운틴 웨스트 15 2 - - - - N N N 16 N 16 32 N N N N N N N N N 32 32 32 32 N N N N N 32 N 32 N
네바다 주 마운틴 웨스트 10 2 - - - - N N N 16 32 32 N N 16 ƒ
리치먼드 대서양 10 10 2 - - - - N 32 N 16 N 32 N 32 N N N 16 N N N 32
모어헤드 주 오하이오 밸리 8 2 - - - - 16 23 16 32 N
코넬 아이비리그 5 2 - - - - 16 16
몬태나 주 빅 스카이 12 1 - - - - 16 N N N 32 N
채터누가 소콘 12 1 - - - - 32 N N N N 16
조지 워싱턴 대서양 10 11 1 - - - - 24 24 N 16 32 N N N 32 N N
동테네시 주 소콘 10 1 - - - - 16 N 32 N
올레 미스 9 1 - - - - N N N N N 32 N 16 N N N N N 32 N N
발파라이소 미주리 밸리 9 1 - - - - 16 N N N N
맨해튼 MAAC 8 1 - - - - N N N N N 25 N 16 N N N N N N N N N 32 N N 32 N ƒ
북부 아이오와 주 미주리 밸리 8 1 - - - - 32 16 N 32 32 N
퍼먼 소콘 7 1 - - - - 25 25 16 32 32 N N 32
볼 상태 7 1 - - - - 32 16 N N N N
디트로이트 머시 수평선 6 1 - - - - N N 25 N 16 N 32 32 N N N
롱비치 주 빅 웨스트 6 1 - - - - 16 E8 E8 16 32 N N N N N N N N N
라마 사우스랜드 6 1 - - - - 32 16 32 N 32 N N N ƒ
미주리 주 미주리 밸리 6 1 - - - - N 32 N N N 16 N N N N N N
몬태나 주 빅 스카이 5 1 - - - - 16 N N
프레즈노 주 마운틴 웨스트 5 1 - - - - 16 N N N N N N N 32 N N N
루이지애나 테크 CUSA 5 1 - - - - 32 16 N N 32 N N N N N N N N
톨레도 4 1 - - - - N N 24 23 16 N N N N N N N N N N
포덤 대서양 10 4 1 - - - - N 22 24 N N N N N N 16 N N N N N N N N N
볼링 그린 4 1 - - - - N N N N N N 23 25 16 23 N N N N N N N N
라파예트 패트리어트 4 1 - - - - N N 16 N N N
중부 미시간 주 4 1 - - - - 16 32 N 32 N
미시간 주 서부 4 1 - - - - 16 N 32 N N
아이다호 주 빅 스카이 4 1 - - - - 16 N
동부 미시간 주 4 1 - - - - 16 N 32
밀워키 수평선 4 1 - - - - N 16 32 N
나이아가라 MAAC 3 1 - - - - N N N N N N N 16 N N N N N N N
산호세 주 마운틴 웨스트 3 1 - - - - 16 N
클리블랜드 주 수평선 3 1 - - - - 16 N N N 32 N N N
플로리다 걸프 코스트 아순 3 1 - - - - 16 N N
레바논 계곡 D3 1 1 - - - - 16
웨인주(MI) D2 1 1 - - - - 16
머레이 주 미주리 밸리 18 - - - - - 25 25 N N N 32 N N N 32 N 32 N 32 32
이오나 MAAC 15 - - - - - 32 N N N N ƒ N N N
구 도미니언 선벨트 12 - - - - - N N N N N 32 N N N 32 N N 32 N
텍사스 서던 SWAC 11 - - - - - ƒ N ƒ N ƒ
윈스롭 빅 사우스 11 - - - - - ƒ 32 ƒ
노스캐롤라이나 A&T 식민지 시대 10 - - - - - N N ƒ ƒ
미들 테네시 주 CUSA 9 - - - - - 32 32 32 N N 32 N ƒ 32 32 N
보이시 주 마운틴 웨스트 9 - - - - - 32 N N N N ƒ ƒ N N N
동북부 식민지 시대 9 - - - - - 32 32 N N N
남부 SWAC 9 - - - - - N 32 ƒ
버몬트 주 아메리카 이스트 9 - - - - - 32 N N N N
동부 켄터키 주 아순 8 - - - - - 22 23 23 25
사우스 앨라배마 주 선벨트 8 - - - - - 32 N N 32 N N
로버트 모리스 수평선 8 - - - - - N N N
벅넬 패트리어트 8 - - - - - 32 32 N N N
벨몬트 미주리 밸리 8 - - - - - N N N N N
롱아일랜드 북동쪽 7 - - - - - N N N N N N N N ƒ N ƒ ƒ
네브래스카 주 빅 텐 7 - - - - - N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N
루이지애나 주 선벨트 7 - - - - - 16 16 N N N 32 N N N
루이지애나-몬로 선벨트 7 - - - - - N N
페어레이 디킨슨 북동쪽 7 - - - - - N N ƒ 32
UC산타바바라 빅 웨스트 7 - - - - - N 32 N N N N
오스틴 페이 아순 6 - - - - - 16 25 32 N N
일리노이 주 미주리 밸리 6 - - - - - N N N 32 32 N N N N 32 N N N N N N N
알콘 주 SWAC 6 - - - - - N 32 N ƒ N N
시에나 MAAC 6 - - - - - N 32 N N N N 32 32
조지아 주 선벨트 6 - - - - - 32 N N 32
델라웨어 주 식민지 시대 6 - - - - - N
찰스턴 식민지 시대 6 - - - - - N N 32 N N N
마운트 세인트 마리아의 MAAC 6 - - - - - N ƒ ƒ
콜게이트 패트리어트 6 - - - - -
UNC 윌밍턴 식민지 시대 6 - - - - - N N 32
햄프턴 식민지 시대 6 - - - - - 32 ƒ N
사우스다코타 주 정상회담 6 - - - - - N N
마셜 선벨트 5 - - - - - 25 N N 25 N N N 32
하와이 빅 웨스트 5 - - - - - N 25 N N N N N N N 32
제임스 매디슨 선벨트 5 - - - - - 32 32 32 N N N N N
에반스빌 미주리 밸리 5 - - - - - N 32 N
뉴올리언스 사우스랜드 5 - - - - - N 32 N N N N N ƒ
르하이 패트리어트 5 - - - - - ƒ 32
리틀록 오하이오 밸리 5 - - - - - 32 N N N ƒ 32
미시시피 밸리 주 SWAC 5 - - - - - N ƒ
드렉셀 식민지 시대 5 - - - - - 32 N N N N N N
아크론 5 - - - - - N N N N N N N
사우스캐롤라이나 주 MEAC 5 - - - - -
그린베이 수평선 5 - - - - - N N 32 N N
UCF 빅12 5 - - - - - N N 32 N
자유 CUSA 5 - - - - - ƒ 32 N
UNC 애슈빌 빅 사우스 5 - - - - - N N
알바니 아메리카 이스트 5 - - - - -
워포드 소콘 5 - - - - - 32
공군 마운틴 웨스트 4 - - - - - 25 25 N
호프스트라 식민지 시대 4 - - - - - 32 32 N N N N N N N
앨라배마 주 SWAC 4 - - - - - N N ƒ ƒ
샌디에이고 서해안 4 - - - - - ƒ 32 N
UTSA 미국의 4 - - - - -
노스텍사스 미국의 4 - - - - - 32 N N
코핀 주 MEAC 4 - - - - - N N 32 ƒ
코스트 캐롤라이나 선벨트 4 - - - - - N N
라이트 주 수평선 4 - - - - - N
몬머스 식민지 시대 4 - - - - - N N
UNC 그린스보로 소콘 4 - - - - - N N N
버팔로 4 - - - - - N 32 32 N
노스다코타 주 정상회담 4 - - - - - 32
노스캐롤라이나 센트럴 MEAC 4 - - - - - N ƒ ƒ ƒ
로욜라(LA) NAIA 3 - - - - - 24 23 24
페어필드 MAAC 3 - - - - - N N N N N N
미국의 패트리어트 3 - - - - - N N N
애팔래치아 주 선벨트 3 - - - - - 32 N ƒ
머서 소콘 3 - - - - - N 32
서던 미스 선벨트 3 - - - - - N N N N N N N N N N N
사우스플로리다 미국의 3 - - - - - N N N N N N N N 32
하워드 MEAC 3 - - - - -
노던 일리노이 주 3 - - - - -
툴레인 미국의 3 - - - - - N N 32 32 N 32 N N N
조지아 서던 선벨트 3 - - - - - ƒ N N N
라이더 MAAC 3 - - - - - ƒ N N
잭슨 주 SWAC 3 - - - - - N N
UIC 미주리 밸리 3 - - - - - N
래드포드 빅 사우스 3 - - - - -
플로리다 에이앤엠 SWAC 3 - - - - - ƒ
센트럴 코네티컷 주 북동쪽 3 - - - - -
노스웨스턴 주 사우스랜드 3 - - - - - 32
워싱턴 동부 빅 스카이 3 - - - - - N N
오클랜드 수평선 3 - - - - - N
텍사스 A&M–코퍼스 크리스티 사우스랜드 3 - - - - - ƒ
노퍽 주 MEAC 3 - - - - - 32 N N
북부 켄터키 주 수평선 3 - - - - - N
하딘-시몬스 D3 2 - - - - - 22 23
테네시 테크 오하이오 밸리 2 - - - - - 24 25 N N
포틀랜드 서해안 2 - - - - - 23
이스트 캐롤라이나 미국의 2 - - - - - 25
UC 어바인 빅 웨스트 2 - - - - - N N N N N N 32 N
노스웨스턴 빅 텐 2 - - - - - N N N N N N N 32 32
마리스트 MAAC 2 - - - - - N N
맥니즈 사우스랜드 2 - - - - - N N N
노던 애리조나 주 빅 스카이 2 - - - - - N N N
스티븐 F. 오스틴 WAC 2 - - - - - N N N 32 32
토우슨 식민지 시대 2 - - - - - N
이스턴 일리노이 주 오하이오 밸리 2 - - - - -
테네시 주 오하이오 밸리 2 - - - - -
텍사스 주 선벨트 2 - - - - - N
로욜라(MD) 패트리어트 2 - - - - -
니콜스 사우스랜드 2 - - - - - N
프레리뷰 A&M SWAC 2 - - - - - ƒ
샘포드 소콘 2 - - - - -
미주리 주 남동부 오하이오 밸리 2 - - - - - ƒ
칼 주 노스리지 빅 웨스트 2 - - - - -
샘 휴스턴 CUSA 2 - - - - - N N
트로이 선벨트 2 - - - - - N N
포틀랜드 주 빅 스카이 2 - - - - -
UMC 아메리카 이스트 2 - - - - - 32
모건 주 MEAC 2 - - - - - N
잭슨빌 주 CUSA 2 - - - - -
아빌린 크리스찬 WAC 2 - - - - - 32
그랜드 캐니언 WAC 2 - - - - -
서부 텍사스 A&M D2 1 - - - - - N 24 N N
성 프란치스코 (PA) 북동쪽 1 - - - - - N N N N
윌리엄스 D3 1 - - - - - 24
트리니티(TX) D3 1 - - - - - 25
칼 주 로스앤젤레스 D2 1 - - - - - 25
바그너 북동쪽 1 - - - - - N N N N
UT 알링턴 WAC 1 - - - - - N N N
휴스턴 크리스천 사우스랜드 1 - - - - - ƒ
아칸소 주 선벨트 1 - - - - - N N N N
캠벨 식민지 시대 1 - - - - - N
플로리다 인터내셔널 CUSA 1 - - - - -
웨스턴 캐롤라이나 소콘 1 - - - - -
찰스턴 서던 빅 사우스 1 - - - - - N N
남부 유타 주 WAC 1 - - - - -
아이유 수평선 1 - - - - -
델라웨어 주 MEAC 1 - - - - - N N
루이지애나 주 남동부 사우스랜드 1 - - - - - N
앨라배마 에이앤엠 SWAC 1 - - - - - ƒ
립스컴 아순 1 - - - - - N N
빙엄턴 아메리카 이스트 1 - - - - -
아칸소-파인 블러프 SWAC 1 - - - - -
스토니브룩 식민지 시대 1 - - - - - N N N
칼 폴리 빅 웨스트 1 - - - - -
노스플로리다 아순 1 - - - - - ƒ N
UC 데이비스 빅 웨스트 1 - - - - - N N
칼 스테이트 베이커즈필드 빅 웨스트 1 - - - - - N
노스다코타 주 정상회담 1 - - - - -
가드너-웨브 빅 사우스 1 - - - - -
하트포드 D3 1 - - - - -
롱우드 빅 사우스 1 - - - - -
브라이언트 아메리카 이스트 1 - - - - - ƒ
케네소 주 아순 1 - - - - -
노던 콜로라도 주 빅 스카이 - - - - - -
학교 회의. # 16 E8 F4 CG CH 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23

일반적인 토너먼트 출전

26개 팀이 토너먼트에 30번 이상 출전했습니다.

팀. 번호 첫 등장 마지막 모습
켄터키* 61 1942 2024
노스캐롤라이나 주 53 1941 2024
캔자스. 51* 1940 2024
UCLA* 50 1950 2023
듀크 46 1955 2024
인디애나 주 41 1940 2023
빌라노바* 40 1939 2022
루이빌* 39 1951 2019
텍사스 38 1939 2024
미시간 주 37 1957 2024
노트르담 37 1953 2022
시라쿠사 37 1957 2021
유콘* 36 1951 2024
아칸소 주 35 1941 2023
마켓켓 35 1955 2024
애리조나* 34 1951 2024
일리노이 주 34 1942 2024
퍼듀* 34 1969 2024
신시내티 33 1958 2019
오클라호마 주 33 1939 2021
사원 33 1944 2019
캔자스 주 32 1948 2023
조지타운 31 1943 2021
오하이오 주* 31 1939 2022
웨스트버지니아 주 31 1955 2023
BYU 31 1950 2024

*Vacated appearances not included

Marquette declined an invitation to the 1970 tournament

Streaks

Bold indicates an active current streak as of the 2024 tournament.

School Start of streak Last appearance in streak Years
Kansas 1990 2017* 28 years
North Carolina 1975 2001 27 years
Michigan State 1998 2024 26 years
Gonzaga 1999 2024 25 years
Arizona 1985 2009 25 years[a]
Duke 1996 2019 24 years

*Kansas' 2018 appearance was vacated.

  1. ^ Two of Arizona's appearances in this period (1999, 2008) were later vacated due to NCAA sanctions.

Droughts

List of schools with the longest time between NCAA tournament appearances (minimum 20-year drought). Bold indicates an active current streak as of the 2024 tournament:

School Appearance Next appearance Years
Harvard 1946 2012 66 years
Dartmouth 1959 65 years
Tennessee Tech 1963 61 years
Bowling Green 1968 56 years
Columbia
Seattle 1969 55 years (not in Division I in 29 of those years)
Rice 1970 54 years
Yale 1962 2016 54 years
VMI 1977 47 years
Brown 1939 1986 47 years
Stanford 1942 1989
Wisconsin 1947 1994
Duquesne 1977 2024
Toledo 1980 44 years
Furman 1980 2023 43 years
Air Force 1962 2004 42 years
Iowa State 1944 1985 41 years
Houston Christian 1984 40 years (not in Division I in 19 of those years)
Washington State 1941 1980 39 years
Canisius 1957 1996
Baylor 1950 1988 38 years
Miami (FL) 1960 1998 38 years (no team 14 of those years)
Brown 1986 38 years
Jacksonville
Idaho State 1987 37 years
Marist
Portland 1959 1996 37 years
Drake 1971 2008
Manhattan 1958 1993 35 years
Idaho 1990 34 years
Loyola Marymount
Oregon 1961 1995 34 years[12]
Louisiana Tech 1991 33 years
Saint Francis (PA)
Towson
Loyola Chicago 1985 2018 33 years
Campbell 1992 32 years
Fordham
Georgia Southern
Georgetown 1943 1975 32 years
East Carolina 1993 31 years
Marshall 1987 2018 31 years
Howard 1992 2023
Rider 1994 30 years
Tennessee State
Saint Mary's 1959 1989 30 years
California 1960 1990
Massachusetts 1962 1992
Cal State Fullerton 1978 2008
Rutgers 1991 2021
FIU 1995 29 years
Tulane
Mercer 1985 2014 29 years
Canisius 1996 28 years
Louisiana–Monroe
Northern Illinois
Portland
San Jose State
Santa Clara
Western Carolina
Mississippi State 1963 1991 28 years
Charleston Southern 1997 27 years
Fairfield
Texas State
Eastern Michigan 1998 26 years
Illinois State
Navy
Nicholls
Montana State 1996 2022 26 years
Penn State 1965 1991
Oregon State 1990 2016
Arkansas State 1999 25 years
Evansville
Missouri State
LSU 1954 1979 25 years
Georgia Tech 1960 1985
Navy 1960 1985
Drexel 1996 2021
Ball State 2000 24 years
Northern Arizona
Northeastern 1991 2015 24 years
San Francisco 1998 2022
Samford 2000 2024
Eastern Illinois 2001 23 years
Hofstra[i]
Southern Utah
Colgate 1996 2019 23 years
Southeast Missouri State 2000 2023
Alcorn State 2002 22 years
Pepperdine
St. Bonaventure 1978 2000 22 years
Southern Methodist 1993 2015
McNeese 2002 2024
Central Michigan 2003 21 years
IUPUI
South Carolina State
Holy Cross 1956 1977 21 years
East Tennessee State 1968 1989
East Carolina 1972 1993
Southern Miss 1991 2012
La Salle 1992 2013
Coastal Carolina 1993 2014
New Orleans 1996 2017
Prairie View A&M 1998 2019
Florida Atlantic 2002 2023
Wagner 2003 2024
UIC 2004 20 years
DePaul
Western Kentucky 1940 1960 20 years
Colorado State 1969 1989
Baylor 1988 2008
Cornell
Green Bay 1996 2016
TCU 1998 2018
  1. ^ Received an automatic bid in 2020 for winning the 2020 CAA men's basketball tournament, but the NCAA canceled the 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rituals and Influence

The NABC championship trophy
NCAA-style trophies for various sports, as seen at UCLA

Cutting down the nets

As a tournament ritual, the winning team cuts down the nets at the end of regional championship games as well as the national championship game. Starting with the seniors, and moving down by classes, players each cut a single strand off each net; the head coach cuts the last strand connecting the net to the hoop, claiming the net itself.[13] An exception to the head coach cutting the last strand came in 2013, when Louisville head coach Rick Pitino gave that honor to Kevin Ware, who had suffered a catastrophic leg injury during the tournament.[14] This tradition is credited to Everett Case, the coach of North Carolina State, who stood on his players' shoulders to accomplish the feat after the Wolfpack won the Southern Conference tournament in 1947.[15] CBS, since 1987 and yearly to 2015, in the odd-numbered years since 2017, and TBS, since 2016, the even-numbered years, close out the tournament with "One Shining Moment", performed by Luther Vandross.

Team awards

Just as the Olympics awards gold, silver, and bronze medals for first, second, and third place, respectively, the NCAA awards the national champions a gold-plated wooden NCAA national championship trophy. The loser of the championship game receives a silver-plated national runner-up trophy for second place. Since 2006, all four Final Four teams receive a bronze plated NCAA regional championship trophy; prior to 2006, only the teams who did not make the title game received bronze plated trophies for being a semifinalist.

The champions also receive a commemorative gold championship ring, and the other three Final Four teams receive Final Four rings.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches also presents a more elaborate marble/crystal trophy to the winning team. Ostensibly, this award is given for taking the top position in the NABC's end-of-season poll, but this is invariably the same as the NCAA championship game winner. In 2005, Siemens AG acquired naming rights to the NABC trophy, which is now called the Siemens Trophy. Formerly, the NABC trophy was presented right after the standard NCAA championship trophy, but this caused some confusion.[16] Since 2006, the Siemens/NABC trophy has been presented separately at a press conference the day after the game.[17]

Most Outstanding Player

After the championship trophy is awarded, one player is selected and then awarded the Most Outstanding Player award (which almost always comes from the championship team). It is not intended to be the same as a Most Valuable Player award although it is sometimes informally referred to as such.

Influence on the NBA draft

Because the NBA draft takes place just three months after the NCAA tournament, NBA executives have to decide how players' performances in a maximum of seven games, from the First Four to the championship game, should affect their draft decisions. A 2012 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research explores how the March tournament affects the way that professional teams behave in the June draft. The study is based on data from 1997 to 2010 that looks at how college tournament standouts performed at the NBA level.[18][19]

The researchers determined that a player who outperforms his regular season averages or who is on a team that wins more games than its seed would indicate will be drafted higher than he otherwise would have been. At the same time, the study indicated that professional teams do not take college tournament performance into consideration as much as they should, as success in the tournament correlates with elite professional accomplishment, particularly top-level success. "If anything, NBA teams undervalue the signal provided by unexpected performance in the NCAA March Madness tournament as a predictor of future NBA success."[18][19]

Television coverage and revenues

Television contracts

Since 2011, the NCAA has had a joint contract with CBS and Warner Bros. Discovery. The coverage of the tournament is split between CBS, TNT, TBS, and truTV.[20]

Broadcasters from CBS, TBS, and TNT's sports coverage are shared across all four networks, with CBS' college basketball teams supplemented with TNT's NBA teams, while studio segments take place at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and TNT's studios in Atlanta. In the New York-based studio shows, CBS' Greg Gumbel and Clark Kellogg are joined by Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley of TNT's Inside the NBA while Seth Davis of CBS assists with Ernie Johnson and various NBA TV personalities. While three of TNT's NBA voices, Ian Eagle, Kevin Harlan, and Spero Dedes are already employed by CBS in other capacities, they also lend analysts Reggie Miller, Stan Van Gundy, Grant Hill, and Steve Smith and secondary play-by-play man Brian Anderson to CBS. In turn, CBS announcers Brad Nessler, Andrew Catalon, and Tom McCarthy appear on TNT network broadcasts along with analysts Jim Spanarkel, Bill Raftery, and Dan Bonner.

The most recent transaction in 2016 renews the contract through 2032 and provides for the nationwide broadcast each year of all games of the tournament. All First Four games air on truTV. A featured first- or second-round game in each time "window" is broadcast on CBS, while all other games are shown either on TBS, TNT or truTV. The regional semifinals, better known as the Sweet Sixteen, are split between CBS and TBS. CBS had the exclusive rights to the regional finals, also known as the Elite Eight, through 2014. That exclusivity extended to the entire Final Four as well, but after the 2013 tournament Turner Sports elected to exercise a contractual option for 2014 and 2015 giving TBS broadcast rights to the national semifinal matchups.[21] CBS kept its national championship game rights.[21]

Since 2015, CBS and TBS split coverage of the Elite Eight. Since 2016 CBS and TBS alternate coverage of the Final Four and national championship game, with TBS getting the final two rounds in even-numbered years, and CBS getting the games in odd-numbered years. March Madness On Demand would remain unchanged, although Turner was allowed to develop their own service.[22]

The CBS broadcast provides the NCAA with over $500 million annually, and makes up over 90% of the NCAA's annual revenue.[23] The revenues from the multibillion-dollar television contract are divided among the Division I basketball playing schools and conferences as follows:[24]

  • 1/6 of the money goes directly to the schools based on how many sports they play (one "share" for each sport starting with 14, which is the minimum needed for Division I membership).
  • 1/3 of the money goes directly to the schools based on how many scholarships they give out (one share for each of the first 50, two for each of the next 50, ten for each of the next 50, and 20 for each scholarship above 150).
  • 1/2 of the money goes to the conferences based on how well they did in the six previous men's basketball tournaments (counting each year separately, one share for each team getting in, and one share for each win except in the Final Four and, prior to the 2008 tournament, the Play-in game). In 2007, based on the 2001 through 2006 tournaments, the Big East received over $14.85 million, while the eight conferences that did not win a first-round game in those six years received slightly more than $1 million each. Most conferences distribute most of the revenue evenly to its member institutions, regardless of performance.[25] By 2021, the value of the shares or "units" to a conference was worth US$337,141.[26][27]

History of television coverage

CBS has been the major partner of the NCAA in televising the tournament since 1982, but there have been many changes in coverage since the tournament was first broadcast in 1969.

Early broadcast coverage

From 1969 to 1981, the NCAA tournament aired on NBC, but not all games were televised. The early rounds, in particular, were not always seen on TV.

In 1982, CBS obtained broadcast television rights to the NCAA tournament.

ESPN & CBS share coverage

In 1980, ESPN began showing the opening rounds of the tournament. This was the network's first contract signed with the NCAA for a major sport, and helped to establish ESPN's following among college basketball fans. ESPN showed six first-round games on Thursday and again on Friday, with CBS, from 1982 to 1990, then picking up a seventh game at 11:30 pm ET. Thus, 14 of 32 first-round games were televised. ESPN also re-ran games overnight. At the time, there was only one ESPN network, with no ability to split its signal regionally, so ESPN showed only the most competitive games. During the 1980s, the tournament's popularity on television soared.[citation needed]

CBS takes over

However, ESPN became a victim of its own success, as CBS was awarded the rights to cover all games of the NCAA tournament, starting in 1991. Only with the introduction of the so-called "play-in" game (between the 64 seed and the 65 seed) in the 2000s, did ESPN get back in the game (and actually, the first time this "play-in" game was played in 2001, the game was aired on The Nashville Network, using CBS graphics and announcers, as both CBS and TNN were both owned by Viacom at the time.[28]

Through 2010, CBS broadcast the remaining 63 games of the NCAA tournament proper. Most areas saw only eight of 32 first-round games, seven of 16 second-round games, and four of eight regional semifinal games (out of the possible 56 games during these rounds; there would be some exceptions to this rule in the 2000s). Coverage preempted regular programming on the network, except during a 2-hour window from about 5 ET until 7 ET when the local affiliates could show programming. The CBS format resulted in far fewer hours of first-round coverage than under the old ESPN format but allowed the games to reach a much larger audience than ESPN was able to reach.[citation needed]

During this period of near-exclusivity by CBS, the network provided to its local affiliates three types of feeds from each venue: constant feed, swing feed, and flex feed. Constant feeds remained primarily on a given game, and were used primarily by stations with a clear local interest in a particular game. Despite its name, a constant feed occasionally veered away to other games for brief updates (as is typical in most American sports coverage), but coverage generally remained with the initial game. A swing feed tended to stay on games believed to be of natural interest to the locality, such as teams from local conferences, but may leave that game to go to other games that during their progress become close matches. On a flex feed, coverage bounced around from one venue to another, depending on action at the various games in progress. If one game was a blowout, coverage could switch to a more competitive game. A flex feed was provided when there were no games with a significant natural local interest for the stations carrying them, which allowed the flex game to be the best game in progress. Station feeds were planned in advance and stations had the option of requesting either constant or flex feed for various games.[citation needed]

Viewing options emerge

In 1999, DirecTV began broadcasting all games otherwise not shown on local television with its Mega March Madness premium package. The DirecTV system used the subscriber's ZIP code to black out games which could be seen on broadcast television. Prior to that, all games were available on C-Band satellite and were picked up by sports bars.

In 2003, CBS struck a deal with Yahoo! to offer live streaming of the first three rounds of games under its Yahoo! Platinum service, for $16.95 a month.[29] In 2004, CBS began selling viewers access to March Madness On Demand, which provided games not otherwise shown on broadcast television; the service was free for AOL subscribers. In 2006, March Madness On Demand was made free, and continued to be so to online users through the 2011 tournament. For 2012, it once again became a pay service, with a single payment of $3.99 providing access to all 67 tournament games. In 2013, the service, now renamed March Madness Live, was again made free, but uses Turner's rights and infrastructure for TV Everywhere, which requires sign-in though the password of a customer's cable or satellite provider to watch games, both via PC/Mac and mobile devices. Those that do not have a cable or satellite service or one not participating in Turner's TV Everywhere are restricted to games carried on the CBS national feed and three hours (originally four) of other games without sign-in, or coverage via Westwood One's radio coverage. Effective with the 2018 tournament, the national semifinals and final are under TV Everywhere restrictions if they are aired by Turner networks; before then, those particular games were not subject to said restrictions.

In addition, CBS Sports Network (formerly CBS College Sports Network) had broadcast two "late early" games that would not otherwise be broadcast nationally. These were the second games in the daytime session in the Pacific Time Zone, to avoid starting games before 10 AM. These games are also available via March Madness Live and on CBS affiliates in the market areas of the team playing. In other markets, newscasts, local programming or preempted CBS morning programming are aired. CBSSN is scheduled to continue broadcasting the official pregame and postgame shows and press conferences from the teams involved, along with overnight replays.[30]

HDTV coverage

The Final Four has been broadcast in HDTV since 1999. From 2000 to 2004, only one first/second round site and one regional site were designated as HDTV sites. In 2005, all regional games were broadcast in HDTV, and four first and second round sites were designated for HDTV coverage. Local stations broadcasting in both digital and analog had the option of airing separate games on their HD and SD channels, to take advantage of the available high definition coverage. Beginning in 2007, all games in the tournament (including all first and second-round games) were available in high definition, and local stations were required to air the same game on both their analog and digital channels. However, due to satellite limitations, first round "constant" feeds were only available in standard definition.[31] Moreover, some digital television stations, such as WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, choose to not participate in HDTV broadcasts of the first and second rounds and the regional semifinals, and used their available bandwidth to split their signal into digital subchannels to show all games going on simultaneously.[32] By 2008, upgrades at the CBS broadcast center allowed all feeds, flex and constant, to be in HD for the tournament.

International broadcasts

As of 2011, ESPN International holds international broadcast rights to the tournament, distributing coverage to its co-owned networks and other broadcasters. ESPN produces the world feed for broadcasts of the Final Four and championship game, produced using ESPN College Basketball staff and commentators.[33][34][35][36]

Records

NCAA tournament win totals

The top ten programs in total NCAA victories:

Rank School #
1 North Carolina 131
1 Kentucky 131*
3 Duke 118
4 UCLA 114*
5 Kansas 111*
6 Michigan State 71
7 Indiana 67
8 Syracuse 70*
9 Louisville 76*
10 Villanova 71*

*Vacated victories not included

Most Final Four and championship appearances

Programs with five or more appearances in the Final Four:

School National

semifinal appearances

National

championship game appearances

National

championships

North Carolina 21 12 6
UCLA 19* 13* 11
Kentucky 17 12 8
Duke 17 11 5
Kansas 16* 10 4
Ohio State 11* 5 1
Louisville 10* 3* 3*
Michigan State 10 3 2
Michigan 8* 7* 1
Indiana 8 6 5
Villanova 7* 4* 3
UConn 6 5 5
Cincinnati 6 3 2
Oklahoma State 6 3 2
Syracuse 6 3 1
Arkansas 6 2 1
Houston 6 2 0
Georgetown 5 4 1
Florida 5 3 2
Oklahoma 5 2 0
Illinois 5 1 0

*Vacated appearances not included

No. 1 seeds

Since 1979, the NCAA has seeded each region. Beginning in 2004, the Selection Committee announced the rankings among the 1 seeds, designating an overall #1 seed and pairing the regions so that the overall #1 seed would meet the #4 overall seed in the Final Four if both advanced. The overall rankings are denoted with the numbers in parentheses. The following teams received the top ranking in each region:

Year East Midwest[i] South[ii] West
1979 North Carolina Indiana State Notre Dame UCLA
1980 Syracuse LSU Kentucky DePaul
1981 Virginia LSU DePaul Oregon State*
1982 North Carolina DePaul Virginia Georgetown
1983 St. John's Houston Louisville Virginia
1984 North Carolina DePaul Kentucky Georgetown
1985 Georgetown Oklahoma Michigan St. John's
1986 Duke Kansas Kentucky St. John's
1987 North Carolina Indiana Georgetown UNLV
1988 Temple Purdue Oklahoma Arizona
1989 Georgetown Illinois Oklahoma Arizona
1990 Connecticut Oklahoma Michigan State UNLV
1991 North Carolina Ohio State Arkansas UNLV
1992 Duke Kansas Ohio State UCLA
1993 North Carolina Indiana Kentucky Michigan*
1994 North Carolina Arkansas Purdue Missouri
1995 Wake Forest Kansas Kentucky UCLA
1996 Massachusetts* Kentucky Connecticut Purdue
1997 North Carolina Minnesota* Kansas Kentucky
1998 North Carolina Kansas Duke Arizona
1999 Duke Michigan State Auburn Connecticut
2000 Duke Michigan State Stanford Arizona
2001 Duke Illinois Michigan State Stanford
2002 Maryland Kansas Duke Cincinnati
2003 Oklahoma Kentucky Texas Arizona
2004[iii] (4) St. Joseph's (1) Kentucky (2) Duke (3) Stanford
2005[iv] (2) North Carolina (1) Illinois (3) Duke (4) Washington
2006[v] (2) Connecticut (3) Villanova (1) Duke (4) Memphis
2007 (2) North Carolina (1) Florida (3) Ohio State (4) Kansas
2008 (1) North Carolina (4) Kansas (2) Memphis* (3) UCLA
2009 (2) Pittsburgh (1) Louisville (3) North Carolina (4) Connecticut
2010 (2) Kentucky (1) Kansas (3) Duke (4) Syracuse
2011 (1) Ohio State (2) Kansas (3) Pittsburgh (4) Duke
2012 (2) Syracuse (3) North Carolina (1) Kentucky (4) Michigan State
2013 (3) Indiana (1) Louisville* (2) Kansas (4) Gonzaga
2014 (4) Virginia (3) Wichita State (1) Florida (2) Arizona
2015 (2) Villanova (1) Kentucky (3) Duke (4) Wisconsin
2016 (4) North Carolina (3) Virginia (1) Kansas (4) Oregon
2017 (1) Villanova (2) Kansas (3) North Carolina (4) Gonzaga
2018 (2) Villanova (3) Kansas* (1) Virginia (4) Xavier
2019 (1) Duke (3) North Carolina (2) Virginia (4) Gonzaga
2020 Tournament canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak
2021[vi] (4) Michigan (3) Illinois (2) Baylor (1) Gonzaga
2022 (4) Baylor (3) Kansas (2) Arizona (1) Gonzaga
2023 (4) Purdue (2) Houston (1) Alabama (3) Kansas
2024 (1) UConn (3) Purdue (2) Houston (4) North Carolina

*Vacated
Bold denotes team also won tournament

  1. ^ The Midwest region was designated the Southwest region in 2011.
  2. ^ The South region was designated the Mideast region from 1979–1984 and the Southeast region from 1985–1999 and in 2011.
  3. ^ Regions were named after host cities: East Rutherford Regional (East), St. Louis Regional (Midwest), Atlanta Regional (South), and Phoenix Regional (West).
  4. ^ Regions were named after host cities: Syracuse Regional (East), Chicago Regional (Midwest), Austin Regional (South), and Albuquerque Regional (West).
  5. ^ Regions were named after host cities: Washington, D.C., Regional (East); Minneapolis Regional (Midwest); Atlanta Regional (South); and Oakland Regional (West).
  6. ^ All games were played in Indiana as a COVID-19 precaution.

No. 1 seeds by school

#1 seeds Schools
18 North Carolina
15 Kansas*
14 Duke
12 Kentucky
7 Arizona, Virginia
6 UConn
5 Georgetown, Gonzaga, Michigan State, Oklahoma, Purdue
4 DePaul, Illinois, Ohio State, UCLA, Villanova
3 Houston, Indiana, St. John's, Stanford, Syracuse, UNLV
2 Arkansas, Baylor, Florida, Louisville*, LSU, Michigan*, Pittsburgh
1 Alabama, Auburn, Cincinnati, Indiana State, Maryland, Memphis*, Missouri, Notre Dame, Oregon, St. Joseph's, Temple, Texas, Wake Forest, Washington, Wichita State, Wisconsin, Xavier

Last updated through 2024 tournament.
*Vacated appearances not included (see #1 seeds by year and region)

All No. 1 seeds in the Final Four

Rank #1 vs. other ranks (prior to 2018)

Only once did all four No. 1 seeds make it to the Final Four:

Final Fours without a No. 1 seed

Four times (including three since the field expanded to 64 teams) the Final Four has been without a No. 1 seed:

Since 1985, there have been 4 instances of three No. 1 seeds reaching the Final Four; 13 instances of two No. 1 seeds making it; and 14 instances of just one No. 1 seed reaching the Final Four. 2023 was the first Final Four without a 1, 2, or 3 seed.

No. 1 seeds in the championship game

There have been nine occasions (eight times since the field expanded to 64) that the championship game has been played between two No. 1 seeds:

  • 1982 – North Carolina beat Georgetown
  • 1993 – North Carolina beat Michigan
  • 1999 – Connecticut beat Duke
  • 2005 – North Carolina beat Illinois
  • 2007 – Florida beat Ohio State
  • 2008 – Kansas beat Memphis
  • 2015 – Duke beat Wisconsin
  • 2017 – North Carolina beat Gonzaga
  • 2021 – Baylor beat Gonzaga

Since 1985 there have been 18 instances of one No. 1 seed reaching the Championship Game (No. 1 seeds are 13–5 against other seeds in the title game) and 8 instances where no No. 1 seed made it to the title game.

Additional No. 1 seed stats

  • In 1997, Arizona became the only team to beat three No. 1 seeds in a single tournament. Arizona (No. 4 seed) beat Kansas in its own southeast region, then beat North Carolina in the Final Four and finally Kentucky in the championship game. The most No. 1 seeds any team can face in the tournament is three (provided that the team itself is not a No. 1 seed, in which case it can only face two No. 1 seeds in the tournament).
  • In 2011, the highest seed to advance to the Final Four was No. 3 seed Connecticut, making the 2011 tournament the first time that neither a No. 1 seed nor a No. 2 seed advanced into the final weekend of play. In the same tournament, Butler made history as the first program to make consecutive Final Fours while not being seeded No. 1 or No. 2 in either season.
  • There have been 16 teams that have entered the tournament unbeaten. Four of those teams were from UCLA, and all those Bruin teams won each of those tournaments. However, of the other 12 teams entering the tournament unbeaten, just three went on to win the tournament. For details, see table below.
  • In 1980, 1981, and 1982, when the tournament was 48 teams, DePaul was seeded No. 1 but was defeated in the first round.
  • Theoretically, a No. 1 seed's most difficult six-game path to win the tournament is to defeat a No. 16, a No. 8, a No. 4, a No. 2, a No. 1, and a No. 1 – the highest possible opposing seeds in successive rounds. No No. 1 seed has ever won all six such games, though two teams have won the first five.
    • In the 2002 tournament, Maryland reached the final after defeating teams seeded 16/8/4/2/1; they won the tournament after defeating No. 5 Indiana in the final.
    • In the 2015 tournament, Wisconsin reached the final after defeating teams seeded 16/8/4/2/1. In the final, they faced No. 1 Duke with a chance to complete the full six-game path. However, Wisconsin lost the final.
  • In 2023, no No. 1 seeds advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time ever. Purdue lost to Fairleigh Dickinson in the first round; Kansas lost to Arkansas in the second round, and both Alabama and Houston lost in the Sweet Sixteen, respectively to San Diego State and Miami.

Teams No. 1 in national polls

Teams that entered the tournament ranked No. 1 in at least one of the AP, UPI, or USA Today polls and won the tournament:[37]

  • 1949: Kentucky (AP)
  • 1951: Kentucky (AP/UPI)
  • 1953: Indiana (AP/UPI)
  • 1955: San Francisco (AP/UPI)
  • 1956: San Francisco (AP/UPI)
  • 1957: North Carolina (AP/UPI)
  • 1964: UCLA (AP/UPI)
  • 1967: UCLA (AP/UPI)
  • 1969: UCLA (AP/UPI)
  • 1971: UCLA (AP/UPI)
  • 1972: UCLA (AP/UPI)
  • 1973: UCLA (AP/UPI)
  • 1974: NC State (AP/UPI)
  • 1976: Indiana (AP/UPI)
  • 1978: Kentucky (AP/UPI)
  • 1982: North Carolina (AP/UPI)
  • 1992: Duke (AP/UPI)
  • 1994: Arkansas (USA Today)
  • 1995: UCLA (AP/USA Today)
  • 2001: Duke (AP/USA Today)
  • 2012: Kentucky (AP/USA Today)

Undefeated teams in the tournament

The record here refers to the record before the first game of the NCAA tournament.

Year Team Record Result
1951 Columbia 21–0 Lost Sweet 16 game to Illinois
1956 San Francisco 24–0 Won the tournament, beat Iowa
1957 North Carolina 27–0 Won the tournament, beat Kansas
1961 Ohio State 24–0 Lost in championship game to Cincinnati
1964 UCLA 26–0 Won the tournament, beat Duke
1967 UCLA 26–0 Won the tournament, beat Dayton
1968 Houston 28–0 Lost in national semifinal game to UCLA
1968 St. Bonaventure 22–0 Lost Sweet 16 game to North Carolina
1971 Pennsylvania 26–0 Lost Elite 8 game to Villanova
1971 Marquette 26–0 Lost Sweet 16 game to Ohio State
1972 UCLA 26–0 Won the tournament, beat Florida State
1973 UCLA 26–0 Won the tournament, beat Memphis State
1975 Indiana 29–0 Lost Elite 8 game to Kentucky
1976 Indiana 27–0 Won the tournament, beat Michigan
1976 Rutgers 27–0 Lost in national semifinal game to Michigan
1979 Indiana State 28–0 Lost in championship game to Michigan State
1991 UNLV 30–0 Lost in national semifinal game to Duke
2014 Wichita State 34–0 Lost in Round of 32 to Kentucky
2015 Kentucky 34–0 Lost in national semifinal game to Wisconsin
2021 Gonzaga 26–0 Lost in championship game to Baylor

Undefeated teams not in the tournament

The NCAA tournament has dramatically expanded since 1975, and since the expansion to 48 teams in 1980, no unbeaten team has failed to qualify. Since by definition, a team would have to win its conference tournament, and thus secure an automatic bid to the tournament, to be undefeated in a season, the only way a team could finish undefeated and not reach the tournament is if the team is banned from postseason play. As of 2021, no team banned from postseason play has finished undefeated since 1980. Other possibilities for an undefeated team to fail to qualify: the team is independent; the conference does not have an automatic bid; or the team is transitioning from a lower NCAA division or the NAIA, during which time it is barred from NCAA-sponsored postseason play in the NCAA tournament or NIT. No men's team from a transitional D-I member has been unbeaten after its conference tournament, but one such women's team has been—California Baptist in 2021. (CBU was able to play in the women's NIT, which has never been operated by the NCAA.)

Before 1980, there were occasions on which a team achieved perfection in the regular season, yet did not appear in the NCAA tournament.

  • During 1939, Long Island University finished the regular season 20–0 but decided to accept instead an invitation to the second NIT (which they won) instead of the first and only NABC tournament (later called the NCAA tournament), as the NIT was more prestigious at the time. It was not until the mid-1950s that the NCAA required that its tournament would have "first choice" in determining teams for their field. Before then, many of the more successful teams during the regular season chose to play in the NIT instead of the NCAA tournament.
  • During 1940, Seton Hall finished the regular season 19–0, but their record had been built largely against weak teams and thus did not earn them an invitation to the postseason tournament.
  • During 1941, Milwaukee State finished the regular season 16–0, but their record had been built largely against weak teams and thus did not earn them an invitation to the postseason tournament.
  • During 1944, Army finished the regular season 15–0 but owing to World War II, the Cadets did not accept an invitation to postseason play.
  • During 1954, Kentucky finished 25–0 and were invited to the tournament, but declined the invitation, due their star players being ineligible due to already graduating.
  • During 1973, NC State finished the regular season 27–0 and ranked #2 (behind undefeated and eventual tournament champion UCLA) but were barred from participating in the NCAA tournament while on probation for recruiting violations.
  • During 1979, Alcorn State finished the regular season 27–0, but did not receive an invitation to the NCAA tournament. The Braves accepted a bid to the NIT, where they lost in the second round to eventual NIT champion Indiana.[38]

First-time champions on the first attempt

The following are teams that won their respective tournaments all on the first try (1st Final Four, 1st title game, 1st title). This list includes teams that won subsequent tournaments.

Repeat champions

Seven programs have repeated as national championships. UCLA is the only program to win more than 2 in a row, winning 7 straight from 1967 to 1973. These programs are:

There have been nine times in which the tournament did not include the reigning champion (the previous year's winner):

Upsets by low-seeded teams

Most successful low seeds

Best outcomes for low seeds since expansion to 64 teams in 1985:

Seed 2nd Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four Championship Game National Champion
No. 16

UMBC (2018)
Fairleigh Dickinson (2023)

No. 15

Richmond (1991)
Santa Clara (1993)
Coppin State (1997)
Hampton (2001)
Norfolk State (2012)
Lehigh (2012)
Middle Tennessee (2016)

Florida Gulf Coast (2013)
Oral Roberts (2021)
Princeton (2023)

Saint Peter's (2022)
No. 14 numerous (20 teams)
No. 13 numerous (25 teams)
No. 12 numerous (31 teams)

numerous (20 teams)

No. 11 numerous (31 teams)

numerous (17 teams)

No. 10 numerous (34 teams)

numerous (15 teams)

No. 9 numerous (66 teams)
No. 8
No. 7 numerous (15 teams)

Best performances by No. 16 seeds

In 2018, UMBC became the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the men's tournament, shocking Virginia 74–54. Before this breakthrough, five other 16 seeds lost by 4 or fewer points:

In 2023, Fairleigh Dickinson became the second No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the tournament, beating Purdue 63–58.

Lowest-seeded pairings by round

  • The lowest-seeded combination in the national championship game is the 2014 pairing of No. 7 seed UConn and No. 8 seed Kentucky. UConn won and became the second-lowest-seeded team to win the tournament.
  • The pairing of No. 8 seed Butler and No. 11 seed VCU in the 2011 National semifinals game was the lowest seeded combination to play in a National semifinals game.
  • The pairing of No. 8 seed North Carolina and No. 15 seed Saint Peter's in the 2022 East Regional Final was the lowest-seeded combination to play in a Regional Final.
  • The pairing of No. 10 seed Providence and No. 14 seed Chattanooga in the 1997 Southeast Regional semifinal was the lowest-seeded combination to play in a Regional semifinal.
  • There have been twenty-five Round of 32 matchups between two seeds who had won as the underdogs in the Round of 64: twelve 12-13 matchups, six 11-14 matchups, five 10-15 matchups, and two 9-16 matchups. The seeds add to 25 in each case, which is the lowest possible total for the second round.

Additional low-seed stats

  • Villanova in 1985, a No. 8 seed, was the lowest seeded team to win the tournament.
  • Penn's 1979 Final Four appearance as a No. 9 seed—out of 10 teams in their region—made them the lowest seed to make the Final Four in the pre-64-team era.[41]
  • Butler is the only team to make consecutive Final Fours (let alone Championship Games) while not being a No. 1 or No. 2 seed either time (No. 5 in 2010, No. 8 in 2011).
  • In 1989, the four 11-seeds swept the first round against their 6-seed opponents. As of 2023 this is the only time that 11-seeds have achieved this feat, and no lower seed ever has. Three out of four 12-seeds have advanced five times, in 2002, 2009, 2013, 2014, and 2019. The 10-seeds also swept the 7-seeds once, in 1999.
  • Richmond is the only team to win first-round games ranked as a No. 15, No. 14, No. 13, and No. 12 seed.
  • The most Round of 64 upsets over top-3 seeds occurring in a single tournament has been two, which has occurred ten times:
    • 1986, 1995, 2015: Two No. 14 seeds over No. 3 seeds
    • 1991, 1997, 2013, 2016, 2021: One No. 15 seed over a No. 2 seed and one No. 14 seed over a No. 3 seed
      • In 1991, 2013, 2016, and 2021, at least one team of every seed between No. 1 and No. 15 advanced to the round of 32.
    • 2012: Two No. 15 seeds over No. 2 seeds
    • 2023: One No. 16 seed over a No. 1 seed and one No. 15 seed over a No. 2 seed
  • 2014 produced the highest total seed differential in an NCAA Tournament, with 128 across all the rounds of play. That is, the sum of seed differences among the 19 games won by lower-seeded teams was 128. This surpassed the previous mark of 111 in 2014, in which 22 games were won by lower seeded teams.
  • 2013 was the only tournament to have three teams seeded No. 12 or lower in the Sweet Sixteen: No. 12 Oregon, No. 13 La Salle, and No. 15 Florida Gulf Coast.
  • The 2018 South Region was the first region since seeding began in 1979 in which no top-4 seed advanced to the Sweet Sixteen (No. 5 Kentucky, No. 7 Nevada, No. 9 Kansas State, No. 11 Loyola–Chicago).
  • Georgetown is the only team to lose in five consecutive tournament appearances against a team seeded at least five spots lower:
  • In 2021, Houston, a 2 seed, was the first team ever to reach the Final Four by defeating only double-digit seeds—in order, Cleveland State (15), Rutgers (10), Syracuse (11), and Oregon State (12).
  • 2021 featured 14 upsets, the most upsets in a single tournament. NCAA defines an upset as 5 seed lines or more between teams.[42]

Point spread upsets

Despite numerous instances of early-round tournament upsets, only two No. 1 seeds have lost in the first round to a No. 16 seed. However, while seeding is one way of measuring the impact of an upset, prior to the implementation of seeding, point spread was the better determinant of an upset, and a loss by a highly favored team remains for many the definition of "upset". As the NCAA forbids any association with gambling, and point spreads vary depending on the bookie taking the bets, these are unofficial:

Biggest point-spread upsets since expansion to 64 teams in 1985:
Biggest point-spread upsets in NCAA championship game history:

Mid-major teams

Mid-major teams—which are defined as teams from the America East Conference (America East), ASUN Conference (ASUN), Atlantic 10 (A-10), Big Sky Conference (Big Sky), Big South Conference (Big South), Big West Conference (Big West), Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), Conference USA (C-USA), Horizon League (Horizon), Ivy League (Ivy), Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Mid-American Conference (MAC), Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), Mountain West Conference (MW), Northeast Conference (NEC), Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), Patriot League (Patriot), Southern Conference (SoCon), Southland Conference (Southland), Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), Summit League (Summit), Sun Belt Conference (Sun Belt), West Coast Conference (WCC), and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC)[46]—have experienced success in the tournament.

The last time, as of 2024, a mid-major team won the National Championship was 1990 when UNLV won with a 103–73 win over Duke, since UNLV was then a member of the Big West and since 1999 has been a member of the MW; the Big West was not then considered a power conference, nor is the MW today. However, during the tenure of UNLV's coach at the time, Jerry Tarkanian, the Runnin' Rebels were widely viewed as a major program despite their conference affiliation (a situation similar to that of Gonzaga since the first years of the 21st century). Additionally, the Big West received three bids in the 1990 tournament. The last time, as of 2024, an independent mid-major team won the national championship was 1977 when Marquette won 67–59 over North Carolina. However, Marquette was not considered a "mid-major" program at that time. The very term "mid-major" was not coined until 1977 and did not see wide use until the 1990s. More significantly, Marquette was one of several traditional basketball powers that were still NCAA Division I independents in the late 1970s. Also, Marquette has been a member of widely acknowledged "major" basketball conferences since 1991, and is currently in the undeniably major Big East Conference. The last time, as of 2024, a mid-major team from a small media market (defined as a market that is outside of the top 25 television markets in the United States in 2019) won the National Championship was arguably 1962 when Cincinnati, then in the MVC, won 71–59 over Ohio State of the Big Ten, since Cincinnati's TV market is listed 35th in the nation as of 2024. However, the MVC was generally seen in that day as a major basketball conference.

The last time the Final Four was composed, as of 2024, of at least 75% mid-major teams (3/4), i.e. excluding all present-day major conferences or their predecessors, was 1979, where Indiana State, then as now of the Missouri Valley Conference (which had lost several of its most prominent programs, among them Cincinnati, earlier in the decade); Penn, then as now in the Ivy League; and DePaul, then an independent, participated in the Final Four, only to see Indiana State lose to Michigan State. The last time, as of 2024, the Final Four has been composed of at least 50% mid-major teams (2/4) was 2023, when Florida Atlantic, of Conference USA, and San Diego State, of the Mountain West Conference, participated in the Final Four, only to see San Diego State lose to UConn. To date, as of 2024, no Final Four has been composed of 100% mid-major teams (4/4), therefore guaranteeing a mid-major team winning the national championship.

Arguably the tournament with the most mid-major success was the 1970 tournament, which had 63% representation of mid-major teams in the Sweet 16 (10/16), 75% representation in the Elite 8 (6/8), 75% representation in the Final 4 (3/4), and 50% representation in the national championship game (1/2). Jacksonville lost to UCLA in the National Championship, with New Mexico State defeating St. Bonaventure for third place.

This table shows the performance of mid-major teams from the Sweet Sixteen round to the national championship game from 1939—the tournament's first year—to 2024.

Notes
  • The first column is a list of every mid-major conference. For the conferences that have predecessor names, a footnote (below the table) lists those names and years. Opposite each conference's name are the schools that have appeared in the tournament from the Sweet Sixteen onwards when the school was a member of the conference or a predecessor conference.
  • Some of the conferences that are considered mid-majors were regarded as major conferences in the past. For example:
    • The Missouri Valley Conference was considered a major basketball conference until many of its most prominent members left in the mid-1970s (before Indiana State's 1979 run to the title game).
    • Conference USA was considered a major conference at its formation in 1995. It arguably became a mid-major in 2005, when several of its more prominent teams left for the Big East Conference, and unquestionably became a mid-major during the early-2010s realignment cycle.
    • The WAC was considered a major conference until 1999, when 8 of its 16 members left to form the Mountain West Conference.
    • The MW was considered a major basketball conference until 2011, when two of its most prominent basketball programs (BYU and Utah) left for other conferences (West Coast Conference and Pac-12, respectively).
  • Certain programs that were members of "mid-major" conferences during deep tournament runs are nonetheless widely viewed as having been major programs at that time. The same applies to many programs that were independent before the 1980s. Examples include (but are not limited to) San Francisco in the 1950s, Marquette in the 1970s, UNLV in the last part of the 20th century, and Gonzaga since the mid-2010s.[47]
Mid-major conference Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four Championship game National champion
America East[nb 1]
ASUN [nb 2] Florida Gulf Coast (2013)
Big Sky Weber State (1969, 1972), Montana (1975), Idaho (1982) Idaho State (1977)
Big South
Big West[nb 3] Long Beach State (1973), UNLV (1975, 1976, 1984, 1986), Fresno State (1982), New Mexico State (1992) Long Beach State (1972), Cal State Fullerton (1978), UNLV (1989) UNLV (1977, 1987, 1991) UNLV (1990)
CAA[nb 4] Richmond (1988) Navy (1986) George Mason (2006), VCU (2011)
C-USA Louisville (1996), Cincinnati (2001), UAB (2004), Memphis (2009) Cincinnati (1996), Louisville (1997), Memphis (2006, 2007) Marquette (2003), Louisville (2005), Florida Atlantic (2023) Memphis (2008[nb 5])
Horizon[nb 6] Loyola Chicago (1985), Xavier (1990), Butler (2003, 2007), Milwaukee (2005) Butler (2010, 2011)
Ivy Princeton (1967, 2023), Columbia (1968), Cornell (2010) Dartmouth (1958) Princeton (1965), Penn (1979)
MAAC Saint Peter's (2022)
MAC Bowling Green (1963), Central Michigan (1975), Western Michigan (1976), Toledo (1979), Ball State (1990), Eastern Michigan (1991), Miami (Ohio) (1999), Ohio (2012) Ohio (1964), Kent State (2002)
MEAC
MVC Saint Louis (1957), Cincinnati (1958, 1966), Creighton (1962, 1964, 1974), Tulsa (1994, 1995), Southwest Missouri State (1999), Southern Illinois (1977, 2002, 2007), Wichita State (2006, 2015), Bradley (2006), Northern Iowa (2010), Loyola Chicago (2021) Creighton (1941), Saint Louis (1952), Bradley (1955), Wichita State (1964, 1981), Drake (1970, 1971) Oklahoma A&M (1949), Cincinnati (1960), Wichita State (1965, 2013), Drake (1969), Loyola Chicago (2018) Bradley (1950, 1954), Cincinnati (1963), Indiana State (1979) Oklahoma A&M (1945, 1946), Cincinnati (1961, 1962)
MW Utah (2005), UNLV (2007), BYU (2011), San Diego State (2011, 2014), Nevada (2018) San Diego State (2023)
NEC[nb 7]
OVC Morehead State (1961), Austin Peay (1973)
Patriot[nb 8]
SoCon East Tennessee State (1968), Furman (1974), VMI (1977), Chattanooga (1997) VMI (1976), Davidson (1968, 1969, 2008)
Southland Lamar (1980), Louisiana Tech (1985)
SWAC
Summit[nb 9] Cleveland State (1986), Valparaiso (1998), Oral Roberts (2021)
Sun Belt Western Kentucky (1993, 2008) UAB (1982) UNC Charlotte (1977)
WCC[nb 10] Santa Clara (1970), Pacific (1971), Pepperdine (1976), San Francisco (1979), Gonzaga (2000, 2001, 2006, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2024), St. Mary's (California) (2010) St. Mary's (California) (1959), Pacific (1967), Santa Clara (1969), San Francisco (1974), Loyola Marymount (1990), Gonzaga (1999, 2015, 2019) Santa Clara (1952), San Francisco (1957) Gonzaga (2017, 2021) San Francisco (1955, 1956)
WAC Colorado State (1969), New Mexico (1974), Wyoming (1987), Utah (1991, 1996), UTEP (1992), Nevada (2004) BYU (1981), Utah (1997), Tulsa (2000) Utah (1966) Utah (1998)
  1. ^ Known as the Eastern College Athletic Conference-North from 1979 to 1988 and the North Atlantic Conference from 1988 to 1996.
  2. ^ Known as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) from 1978 to 2001 and as the Atlantic Sun Conference from 2001 to 2016. It returned to the "Atlantic Sun" branding in 2023, but still uses "ASUN" as its official abbreviation.
  3. ^ Known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) from 1969 to 1988.
  4. ^ Known as the Eastern College Athletic Conference-South from 1979 to 1985. The "C", currently standing for "Coastal", stood for "Colonial" from 1985–2023.
  5. ^ Vacated due to academic ineligibility and impermissible benefits given to Derrick Rose
  6. ^ Known as the Midwestern City Conference from 1979 to 1985 and the Midwestern Collegiate Conference from 1985 to 2001.
  7. ^ Known as the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Metro from 1979 to 1988.
  8. ^ Known as the Colonial League from 1986 to 1990, a period in which it was a football-only conference.
  9. ^ Known as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities from 1982 to 1989 and the Mid-Continent Conference (MCC) until 2007.
  10. ^ Known as the California Basketball Association from 1952 to 1956 and the West Coast Athletic Conference (WCAC) from 1956 to 1989.

Defunct conferences and independents

This table shows teams that saw success in the tournament from later defunct conferences, or were independents.

One conference listed, the Southwest Conference, was universally considered a major conference throughout its history. Of its final eight members, five moved to conferences typically considered "major" in basketball—three in the Big 12, one in the SEC, and one in The American. Another member that left during the SWC's last decade also moved to the SEC. The Metro Conference, which operated from 1975 to 1995, is not listed because it was considered a major basketball conference throughout its history. The, Louisville, which was a member for the league's entire existence, won both of its NCAA-recognized titles (1980, 1986) while in the Metro. It was one of the two leagues that merged to form the Conference USA. The other league involved in the merger, the Great Midwest Conference, was arguably a major conference; it was formed in 1990, with play starting in 1991, when several of the Metro's strongest basketball programs left that league.

Mid-Major Conference Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four Championship game National champion
Border Intercollegiate Athletic Conference[nb 1] New Mexico State (1952) Arizona State (1961)
East Coast Conference[nb 2] Saint Joseph's (1981)
Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League[nb 3] Dartmouth (1941) Dartmouth (1942, 1944)
Great Midwest Conference[nb 4] Marquette (1994), Memphis (1995) Memphis State (1992), Cincinnati (1993) Cincinnati (1992)
Metropolitan New York Conference[nb 5] NYU (1943, 1946, 1951, 1962, 1963), Manhattan (1958) City College of New York (1947) NYU (1960) NYU (1952) City College of New York (1950)
Middle Atlantic Conference[nb 6] Saint Joseph's (1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1966) Saint Joseph's (1963) Saint Joseph's (1961)
Mountain States Conference[nb 7] BYU (1957) Wyoming (1941), BYU (1950, 1951) Utah State (1939) Wyoming (1943)
New Jersey-New York 7 Conference[nb 8] St. John's (1979)
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association[nb 9] Western Kentucky (1940)
Southwest Conference[nb 10] Texas A&M (1956, 1969, 1980) Texas (1939, 1943, 1947, 1990), Rice (1940, 1942) Texas (1943, 1947) Houston (1983, 1984)
Western New York Little Three Conference[nb 11] Canisius (1957) Canisius (1955, 1956)
Yankee Conference[nb 12] UConn (1956, 1976) UConn (1964)
Independents Montana State (1951), Dayton (1952, 1965, 1966, 1974), DePaul (1953, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1976, 1984, 1986[nb 13], 1987[nb 13]), Seattle (1953, 1955, 1956, 1964), Marquette (1959, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1979), Butler (1962), Utah State (1962, 1964), St. Bonaventure (1968), Niagara (1970), Cincinnati (1975), Detroit (1977) Brown (1939), Springfield (1940), Marquette (1955, 1969, 1976), Oklahoma City (1957), Boston University (1959), Utah State (1970), DePaul (1978), Dayton (1984) Duquesne (1940), DePaul (1943, 1979), Bradley (1955), New Mexico State (1970), St. Bonaventure (1970), Rutgers (1976) Bradley (1954), La Salle (1955), Seattle (1958), Dayton (1967), Jacksonville (1970), Marquette (1974) Utah (1944), Holy Cross (1947), La Salle (1954), Loyola Chicago (1963), Texas Western (1966), Marquette (1977)
  1. ^ Established in 1931 and dissolved in 1962.
  2. ^ Established in 1958 and dissolved in 1994.
  3. ^ Established in 1901 and dissolved in 1955, though claimed by the Ivy League as a part of its own history.
  4. ^ Established in 1990 and merged into Conference USA in 1995.
  5. ^ Established in 1933 and dissolved in 1963.
  6. ^ Established in 1912 and became a Division III conference after 1974.
  7. ^ Established in 1938 and known as the Skyline Conference from 1951 to 1962 before the conference dissolved in early 1962.
  8. ^ Established in 1976 and dissolved in 1979.
  9. ^ Established in 1894 and dissolved in 1942.
  10. ^ Established in 1914 and dissolved in 1996.
  11. ^ Established in 1946 and dissolved in 1958.
  12. ^ Established in 1946 by former members of the New England Conference, which was founded in 1938 but never placed a team in the NCAA tournament; became a football-only conference in 1976 and dissolved in 1997.
  13. ^ a b Vacated by the NCAA

Coaching records

Most national championships

  • 10 national championships
John Wooden (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975)
  • 5 national championships
Mike Krzyzewski (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2015)[48]
  • 4 national championships
Adolph Rupp (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958)
  • 3 national championships
Jim Calhoun (1999, 2004, 2011)
Bob Knight (1976, 1981, 1987)
Roy Williams (2005, 2009, 2017)
  • 2 national championships
Denny Crum (1980, 1986)
Billy Donovan (2006, 2007)
Henry Iba (1945, 1946)
Ed Jucker (1961, 1962)
Branch McCracken (1940, 1953)
Bill Self (2008, 2022)
Dean Smith (1982, 1993)
Phil Woolpert (1955, 1956)
Jay Wright (2016, 2018)
  • 1 national championship
Phog Allen (1952)
Tony Bennett (2019)
Jim Boeheim (2003)
Larry Brown (1988)
John Calipari (2012)
Everett Dean (1942)
Scott Drew (2021)
Steve Fisher (1989)
Bud Foster (1941)
Joe B. Hall (1978)
Jim Harrick (1995)
Don Haskins (1966)
Jud Heathcote (1979)
Howard Hobson (1939)
Nat Holman (1950)
Dan Hurley (2023)
George Ireland (1963)
Tom Izzo (2000)
Doggie Julian (1947)
Ken Loeffler (1954)
Rollie Massimino (1985)
Al McGuire (1977)
Frank McGuire (1957)
Pete Newell (1959)
Kevin Ollie (2014)
Lute Olson (1997)
Vadal Peterson (1944)
Rick Pitino (1996)[a]
Nolan Richardson (1994)
Everett Shelton (1943)
Norm Sloan (1974)
Tubby Smith (1998)
Jerry Tarkanian (1990)
Fred Taylor (1960)
John Thompson (1984)
Jim Valvano (1983)
Gary Williams (2002)

National championships among active coaches

Schools winning a national championship under multiple coaches

  • Five coaches
Kentucky: Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and John Calipari
  • Three coaches
Kansas: Phog Allen, Larry Brown, and Bill Self
North Carolina: Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Roy Williams
UConn: Jim Calhoun, Kevin Ollie, and Dan Hurley
  • Two coaches
Indiana: Branch McCracken and Bob Knight
Michigan State: Jud Heathcote and Tom Izzo
North Carolina State: Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano
UCLA: John Wooden and Jim Harrick
Villanova: Rollie Massimino and Jay Wright

Most teams from different schools taken to the Final Four

Rick Pitino is the only coach to have officially taken three teams to the Final Four: Providence (1987), Kentucky (1993, 1996, 1997) and Louisville (2005, 2012).

There are 14 coaches who have officially coached two schools to the Final Four – Roy Williams, Eddie Sutton, Frank McGuire, Lon Kruger, Hugh Durham, Jack Gardner, Lute Olson, Gene Bartow, Forddy Anderson, Lee Rose, Bob Huggins, Lou Henson, Kelvin Sampson and Jim Larrañaga.

  • Larry Brown took UCLA to the Final Four in 1980, but the appearance was vacated due to NCAA violations. He also took Kansas in 1986 and 1988.

Point differentials

Point differentials, or margin of victory, can be viewed either by the championship game, or by a team's performance over the whole tournament.

Championship victory margins

Largest margin of victory in a championship game

30 points, by UNLV in 1990 (103–73, over Duke)

Smallest margin of victory in a championship game

1 point, on six occasions

Championship games that went to overtime

Eight times the championship game has been tied at the end of regulation. On one of those occasions (1957) the game went into double and then triple overtime.

Accumulated victory margins

Largest point differential accumulated over the entire tournament by championship teams

Teams that played 6 games

  • +129 Kentucky 1996
  • +124 Villanova 2016
  • +121 North Carolina 2009
  • +120 UConn 2023
  • +112 UNLV 1990
  • +106 Villanova 2018

Teams that played 5 games

  • +115 Loyola Chicago 1963
  • +113 Indiana 1981
  • +104 Michigan State 1979
  • +69 San Francisco 1955
  • +66 Indiana 1976

Teams that played 4 games

  • +95 UCLA 1967
  • +85 UCLA 1968
  • +78 Ohio State 1960
  • +76 UCLA 1969
  • +72 UCLA 1970
  • +72 UCLA 1972

Teams that played 3 games

  • +56 Oklahoma A&M 1945
  • +52 Kentucky 1949
  • +51 Indiana 1940
  • +47 Kentucky 1948
  • +46 Oregon 1939
Teams winning the championship with a margin of 10 points in every game of the tournament

Achieved 13 times by 10 schools

Seed pairing results

NCAA Tournament % Wins per rank (as of 2010)

Since the inception of the 64-team tournament in 1985, each seed-pairing has played 156 games in the Round of 64, with the following results:

Round of 64 results

  • The No. 1 seed is 154–2 against the No. 16 seed (.987)
  • The No. 2 seed is 145–11 against the No. 15 seed (.929)
  • The No. 3 seed is 133–23 against the No. 14 seed (.853)
  • The No. 4 seed is 123–33 against the No. 13 seed (.788)
  • The No. 5 seed is 101–55 against the No. 12 seed (.647)
  • The No. 6 seed is 95–61 against the No. 11 seed (.609)
  • The No. 7 seed is 96–60 against the No. 10 seed (.615)
  • The No. 8 seed is 75–81 against the No. 9 seed (.481)

Round of 32 results

  • In the 1/16 vs. 8/9 bracket:
vs. No. 8 vs. No. 9 Total
No. 1 59–16 (.787) 73–6 (.924) 132–22 (.857)
No. 16 0–2 (.000) 0–2 (.000)
Total 16–59 (.213) 8–73 (.099)
  • In the 2/15 vs. 7/10 bracket:
vs. No. 7 vs. No. 10 Total
No. 2 63–27 (.700) 36–19 (.655) 99–46 (.683)
No. 15 4–2 (.667) 0–5 (.000) 4–7 (.364)
Total 29–67 (.302) 24–36 (.400)
  • In the 3/14 vs. 6/11 bracket:
vs. No. 6 vs. No. 11 Total
No. 3 48–31 (.608) 34–20 (.630) 82–51 (.617)
No. 14 2–14 (.125) 0–7 (.000) 2–21 (.087)
Total 45–50 (.474) 27–34 (.443)
  • In the 4/13 vs. 5/12 bracket:
vs. No. 5 vs. No. 12 Total
No. 4 44–36 (.550) 30–13 (.698) 74–49 (.602)
No. 13 3–18 (.143) 3–9 (.250) 6–27 (.182)
Total 54–47 (.535) 22–33 (.400)

Round of 16 results

  • In the 1/8/9/16 vs. 4/5/12/13 bracket:
vs. No. 4 vs. No. 5 vs. No. 12 vs. No. 13 Total
No. 1 41–16 (.719) 36–11 (.766) 20–0 (1.000) 4–0 (1.000) 101–27 (.789)
No. 8 6–5 (.545) 2–0 (1.000) 0–2 (.000) 1–0 (1.000) 9–7 (.563)
No. 9 2–2 (.500) 2–1 (.667) 1–0 (1.000) 5–3 (.625)
No. 16
Total 23–49 (.319) 12–40 (.231) 2–20 (.091) 0–6 (.000)
  • In the 2/7/10/15 vs. 3/6/11/14 bracket:
vs. No. 3 vs. No. 6 vs. No. 11 vs. No. 14 Total
No. 2 30–18 (.625) 23–6 (.793) 15–3 (.833) 68–27 (.716)
No. 7 6–10 (.375) 3–5 (.375) 0–4 (.000) 1–0 (1.000) 10–19 (.345)
No. 10 4–9 (.308) 2–4 (.333) 2–2 (.500) 1–0 (1.000) 9–15 (.375)
No. 15 1–2 (.333) 0–1 (.000) 1–3 (.250)
Total 39–41 (.488) 16–28 (.364) 9–17 (.346) 0–2 (.000)

Regional finals results

vs. No. 2 vs. No. 3 vs. No. 6 vs. No. 7 vs. No. 10 vs. No. 11 vs. No. 14 vs. No. 15 Total
No. 1 23–24 (.489) 16–10 (.615) 8–2 (.800) 4–0 (1.000) 5–1 (.833) 4–4 (.500) 60–41 (.594)
No. 4 4–3 (.571) 4–2 (.667) 2–1 (.667) 2–3 (.400) 2–0 (1.000) 14–9 (.609)
No. 5 5–1 (.833) 1–2 (.333) 2–0 (1.000) 1–0 (1.000) 9–3 (.750)
No. 8 3–2 (.600) 0–1 (.000) 1–0 (1.000) 1–0 (1.000) 1–0 (1.000) 6–3 (.667)
No. 9 1–0 (1.000) 1–2 (.333) 0–1 (.000) 2–3 (.400)
No. 12 0–2 (.000) 0–2 (.000)
No. 13
No. 16
Total 32–36 (.471) 17–22 (.436) 3–13 (.188) 3–7 (.300) 1–8 (.111) 5–4 (.556) 0–1 (.000)

Host cities

Final Four venues

Until 1952, the national championship was played at a separate site from the national semifinal games, which were considered regional finals. Forty-one different venues have hosted the final rounds, and several have hosted more than five times:

Among cities, Kansas City has hosted the Final Four a total of ten times, with Kemper Arena hosting in 1988 in addition to Municipal Auditorium. New York and Indianapolis have both hosted seven times, with the latter doing so at three venues: Market Square Arena in 1980, four times in the RCA Dome between 1991 and 2006, and three times in Lucas Oil Stadium, between 2010 and 2021. The state of Texas has hosted the Final Four eleven times in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Arlington between 1971 and 2023.

For most of the tournament's history, the national championship game and national semifinal games have been played in basketball arenas. The first instance of a domed stadium being used for the Final Four was the Houston Astrodome in 1971, but the Final Four would not return to a dome until 1982 when the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans hosted the event for the first time. The last on-campus venue to host the Final Four was University Arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1983. The last venue primarily built for a college basketball team to host the Final Four was Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1985. The last NBA arena to host the Final Four was the Meadowlands Arena, then known as Continental Airlines Arena, in 1996. From 1997 to 2013, the NCAA required that the Final Four be played in domed stadiums with a minimum capacity of 40,000. As of 2009,[clarify] the minimum was increased to 70,000, by adding additional seating on the floor of the dome, and raising the court on a platform three feet above the dome's floor.

In September 2012, the NCAA began preliminary discussions on the possibility of returning occasional Final Fours to basketball-specific arenas in major metropolitan areas. According to ESPN.com writer Andy Katz, when Mark Lewis was hired as NCAA executive vice president for championships during 2012, "he took out a United States map and saw that both coasts are largely left off from hosting the Final Four."[49] Lewis added in an interview with Katz,

I don't know where this will lead, if anywhere, but the right thing is to sit down and have these conversations and see if we want our championship in more than eight cities or do we like playing exclusively in domes. None of the cities where we play our championship is named New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago or Miami. We don't play on a campus. We play in professional football arenas.[49]

Under then-current criteria, only eleven stadiums could be considered as Final Four locations.[49] On June 12, 2013, Katz reported that the NCAA had changed its policy. In July 2013, the NCAA had a portal available on its website for venues to make Final Four proposals in the 2017–2020 period, and there were no restrictions on proposals based on venue size. Also, the NCAA decided that future regionals will no longer be held in domes. In Katz' report, Lewis indicated that the use of domes for regionals was intended as a dry run for future Final Four venues, but this particular policy was no longer necessary because all of the Final Four sites from 2014 to 2016 had already hosted regionals.[50] The policy was changed to only be used if a new venue would be hosting the subsequent tournament's Final Four.[51][52]

Home court advantage

On several occasions NCAA tournament teams played their games in their home arena. In 1959, Louisville played at its regular home of Freedom Hall; however, the Cardinals lost to West Virginia in the semifinals. In 1984, Kentucky defeated Illinois, 54–51 in the Elite Eight on its home court of Rupp Arena. Also in 1984, #6 seeded Memphis played the first 2 rounds on its home court, defeating Oral Roberts and Purdue. In 1985, Dayton played its first-round game against Villanova (it lost 51–49) on its home floor. In 1986 (beating Brown before losing to Navy) and '87 (beating Georgia Southern and Western Kentucky), Syracuse played the first 2 rounds of the NCAA tournament in the Carrier Dome. Also in 1986, LSU played in Baton Rouge on its home floor for the first 2 rounds despite being an 11th seed (beating Purdue and Memphis State). In 1987, Arizona lost to UTEP on its home floor in the first round. In 2015, Dayton played at its regular home of UD Arena, and the Flyers beat Boise State in the First Four.

Since the inception of the modern Final Four in 1952, only once has a team played a Final Four on its actual home court—Louisville in 1959. But through the 2015 tournament, three other teams have played the Final Four in their home cities, one other team has played in its metropolitan area, and six additional teams have played the Final Four in their home states through the 2015 tournament. Kentucky (1958 in Louisville), UCLA (1968 and 1972 in Los Angeles, 1975 in San Diego), and North Carolina State (1974 in Greensboro) won the national title; Louisville (1959 at its home arena, Freedom Hall); Purdue (1980 in Indianapolis) lost in the Final Four; and California (1960 in the San Francisco Bay Area), Duke (1994 in Charlotte), Michigan State (2009 in Detroit), and Butler (2010 in Indianapolis) lost in the final.

In 1960, Cal had nearly as large an edge as Louisville had the previous year, only having to cross the San Francisco Bay to play in the Final Four at the Cow Palace in Daly City; the Golden Bears lost in the championship game to Ohio State. UCLA had a similar advantage in 1968 and 1972 when it advanced to the Final Four at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, not many miles from the Bruins' homecourt of Pauley Pavilion (also UCLA's home arena before the latter venue opened in 1965, and again during the 2011–12 season while Pauley was closed for renovations); unlike Louisville and Cal, the Bruins won the national title on both occasions. Butler lost the 2010 title 6 miles (9.7 km) from its Indianapolis campus.

Before the Final Four was established, the east and west regionals were held at separate sites, with the winners advancing to the title game. During that era, three New York City teams, all from Manhattan, played in the east regional at Madison Square Garden—frequently used as a "big-game" venue by each team—and advanced at least to the national semifinals. NYU won the east regional in 1945 but lost in the title game, also held at the Garden, to Oklahoma A&M. CCNY played in the east regional in both 1947 and 1950; the Beavers lost in the 1947 east final to eventual champion Holy Cross but won the 1950 east regional and national titles at the Garden.

In 1974, North Carolina State won the NCAA tournament without leaving its home state of North Carolina. The team was put in the east region, and played its regional games at its home arena Reynolds Coliseum. NC State played the Final Four and national championship games at nearby Greensboro Coliseum.

While not its home state, Kansas has played in the championship game in Kansas City, Missouri, only 45 minutes from the campus in Lawrence, Kansas, on four different occasions. In 1940, 1953, and 1957 the Jayhawks lost the championship game each time at Municipal Auditorium. In 1988, playing at Kansas City's Kemper Arena, Kansas won the championship, over Big Eight–rival Oklahoma. Similarly, in 2005, Illinois played in St. Louis, Missouri, where it enjoyed a noticeable home court advantage, yet still lost in the championship game to North Carolina.

In 2002, Texas was paired with Mississippi State in Dallas despite being the lower seed. The #6 seeded Longhorns defeated the #3 seeded Bulldogs 68–64 in front of a predominately Texas crowd.

Previously banned venues

South Carolina

The NCAA had banned the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, originally known as Bi-Lo Center, and Colonial Life Arena, originally Colonial Center, in South Carolina from hosting tournament games, despite their sizes (16,000 and 18,000 seats, respectively) because of an NAACP protest at the Bi-Lo Center during the 2002 first and second round tournament games over that state's refusal to completely remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the state capitol grounds, although it had already been relocated from atop the capitol dome to a less prominent place in 2000. Following requests by the NAACP and Black Coaches Association, the Bi-Lo Center, and the newly built Colonial Center, which was built for purposes of hosting the tournament, were banned from hosting any future tournament events.[53] As a result of the removal of the battle flag from the South Carolina State Capitol, the NCAA lifted its ban on South Carolina hosting games in 2015, and it was able to host in 2017 due to House Bill 2 (see next section).[54]

North Carolina

On September 12, 2016, the NCAA stripped the state of North Carolina of hosting rights for seven upcoming college sports tournaments and championships held by the association, including early round games of the 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament scheduled for the Greensboro Coliseum. The NCAA argued that House Bill 2 made it "challenging to guarantee that host communities can help deliver [an inclusive atmosphere]".[55][56] Bon Secours Wellness Arena was able to secure the bid to be the replacement site.[57]

75th Anniversary

Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the tournament, on December 11, 2012, the NCAA announced the 75 best players, the 25 best teams, and the 35 best moments in tournament history. The NCAA started with a group of more than 100 nominees and then analyzed the tournament statistics for each player to select the 75 finalists from which the public would select the top 15 via an online poll in January 2013.[58]

The results of the public vote were revealed at the 2013 NCAA Final Four.[59][60] Among the 15 players, ten had won a championship, 11 were declared the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament at least once, and all made the Final Four at least once. Abdul-Jabbar, Laettner, Lucas, Olajuwon, and Walton all reached the Final Four in every season they played college basketball, and an additional five players went to multiple Final Fours. Hill, Laettner, Russell, and Walton all won two championships, and Abdul-Jabbar won three championships. Lucas and Walton repeated as Most Outstanding Players, and Abdul-Jabbar was declared the MOP all three seasons he played. Bradley, Lucas, Olajuwon, and West were all declared MOP without winning the championship. Twelve players competed in the tournament every year they played college basketball.

UCLA and Duke are the only team with multiple honorees. Christian Laettner and Grant Hill are the only teammates, they played together for Duke and won two championships in 1991 and 1992. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson competed against each other in the 1979 NCAA Championship Game, and Patrick Ewing and Michael Jordan competed against each other in the 1982 NCAA Championship Game as freshmen. Oscar Robertson and Jerry West competed during the same seasons, but never met in the tournament.

Eleven of the players have been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame as players. Michael Jordan and Olajuwon have only been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial as players, and Christian Laettner and Danny Manning have only been inducted into the CBHOF as players. Bill Russell has also been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial as a coach.

Patrick Ewing (Georgetown) and Danny Manning (Tulsa and Wake Forest) have appeared in the tournament as head coaches. Manning has also recorded six appearances, two Final Fours, one runner-up, and one championship as an assistant for Kansas.

Player Team Years Freshman Season Sophomore Season Junior Season Senior Season
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar UCLA 1966–69 [Note 1] Champion & MOP Champion & MOP Champion & MOP
Larry Bird Indiana State 1976–79 Runner-Up
Bill Bradley Princeton 1962–65 [Note 1] Sweet Sixteen Final Four & MOP
Patrick Ewing Georgetown 1981–85 Final Four Second Round Champion & MOP Runner-Up
Grant Hill Duke 1990–94 Champion Champion Second Round Final Four
Magic Johnson Michigan State 1977–79 Elite Eight Champion & MOP [Note 2] [Note 2]
Michael Jordan North Carolina 1981–84 Champion Elite Eight Sweet Sixteen [Note 2]
Christian Laettner Duke 1988–92 Final Four Runner-Up Champion & MOP Champion
Jerry Lucas Ohio State 1959–62 [Note 1] Champion & MOP Runner-Up & MOP Runner-Up
Danny Manning Kansas 1984–88 Second Round Final Four Second Round Champion & MOP
Hakeem Olajuwon Houston 1981–84 Final Four Runner-Up & MOP Runner-Up [Note 2]
Oscar Robertson Cincinnati 1957–60 [Note 1] Sweet Sixteen[Note 3] Final Four Final Four
Bill Russell San Francisco 1953–56 [Note 1] Champion & MOP Champion
Bill Walton UCLA 1972–74 [Note 1] Champion & MOP Champion & MOP Final Four
Jerry West West Virginia 1957–60 [Note 1] First Round[Note 4] Runner-Up & MOP Sweet Sixteen
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Before 1972, Freshmen were not allowed to play on the Varsity team and instead played on the Freshmen team. They were therefore ineligible for the NCAA tournament and were not considered contributors to any accomplishments of the Varsity team during their Freshman season.
  2. ^ a b c d Player left for the NBA before his senior season
  3. ^ Cincinnati received a bye to the regional semifinals, which they lost. They subsequently won the regional third place game.
  4. ^ West Virginia competed in the first round, which had a total of 18 teams competing. Seven teams received a bye to the Sweet Sixteen (regional semifinals).

Popular culture

The NCAA tournament and the Super Bowl are the two American sports events that draw both fans and non-fans.[61][62] Many people are connected to a school in the tournament, having been an alumnus of one of the participants, knowing someone from the college, or living close to the school.[62]

Bracketology and pools

There are pools or private gambling-related contests in which participants predict the outcome of each tournament game, filling out a complete tournament bracket in the process. The popularity of this practice grew around 1985, when the tournament expanded to 64 games, forming four symmetrical regions with 15 games apiece to decide the Final Four.[63] In 2023, Sports Illustrated reported that an estimated 60 to 100 million brackets are filled out each year.[64] Filling out a tournament bracket with predictions is called the practice of "bracketology;" sports programming during the tournament often features commentators comparing the accuracy of their predictions. On The Dan Patrick Show, a wide variety of celebrities from various fields (such as Darius Rucker, Charlie Sheen, Neil Patrick Harris, Ellen DeGeneres, Dave Grohl, and Brooklyn Decker) have posted full brackets with predictions. Former U.S. president Barack Obama began releasing his bracket annually in 2009, his first year in office.[65] While in office, he filled out the men's and women's brackets on ESPN with reporter Andy Katz,[66] and they were also posted on the White House website.[67] He continued releasing his picks after leaving office.[68]

There are many tournament prediction scoring systems. Most award points for correctly picking the winning team in a particular match up, with increasingly more points being given for correctly predicting later round winners. Some provide bonus points for correctly predicting upsets, the amount of the bonus varying based on the degree of upset. Some just provide points for wins by correctly picked teams in the brackets.

There are 2^63 or about 9.22 quintillion unique combinations of winners in a 64-team NCAA bracket, meaning that without considering seed number, the odds of picking a perfect bracket are about 9.22 quintillion to 1.[64] Including the First Four, the number of unique combinations increases to 2^67 or about 147.57 quintillion.

There are numerous awards and prizes given by companies for anyone who can make the perfect bracket. One of the largest was done by a partnership between Quicken Loans and Berkshire Hathaway, which was backed by Warren Buffett, with a $1 billion prize to any person(s) who could correctly predict the outcome of the 2014 tournament. No one was able to complete the challenge and win the $1 billion prize.[69]

Workplace productivity

During the tournament, American workers take extended lunch breaks at sports bars to follow the game. They also use company computer and internet access to view games, scores, and bracket results. Some workplaces block access to sports and entertainment sites, but the rise of mobile devices and live-streamed games bypassed those restrictions, and even workers not normally in front of computers then had access.[61] Workers spend an estimated average of six hours on the tournament each year,[70] and U.S. employers are projected to lose around $13 billion due to lost productivity during the tournament.[71][72]

Tournament-associated terms

As indicated below, none of these phrases are exclusively used in regard to the NCAA tournament. Nonetheless, they are associated widely with the tournament, sometimes for legal reasons, sometimes as part of the American sports vernacular.

March Madness

March Madness is a popular term for season-ending basketball tournaments played in March. March Madness is also a registered trademark currently owned exclusively by the NCAA.

H. V. Porter, an official with the Illinois High School Association (and later a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame), was the first person to use March Madness to describe a basketball tournament. Porter published an essay named March Madness during 1939, and during 1942, he used the phrase in a poem, Basketball Ides of March. Through the years the use of March Madness increased, especially in Illinois, Indiana, and other parts of the Midwest. During this period the term was used almost exclusively in reference to state high school tournaments. During 1977, Jim Enright published a book about the Illinois tournament entitled March Madness.[73]

Fans began associating the term with the NCAA tournament during the early 1980s. Evidence suggests that CBS sportscaster Brent Musburger, who had worked for many years in Chicago before joining CBS, popularized the term during the annual tournament broadcasts. The NCAA has credited Bob Walsh of the Seattle Organizing Committee for starting the March Madness celebration in 1984.[74]

Only during the 1990s did either the IHSA or the NCAA think about trademarking the term, and by that time a small television production company named Intersport had already trademarked it. IHSA eventually bought the trademark rights from Intersport, and then went to court to establish its primacy. IHSA sued GTE Vantage, an NCAA licensee that used the name March Madness for a computer game based on the college tournament. During 1996, in a historic ruling, Illinois High School Association v. GTE Vantage, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit created the concept of a "dual-use trademark", granting both the IHSA and NCAA the right to trademark the term for their own purposes.

After the ruling, the NCAA and IHSA joined forces and created the March Madness Athletic Association to coordinate the licensing of the trademark and investigate possible trademark infringement. One such case involved a company that had obtained the internet domain name marchmadness.com and was using it to post information about the NCAA tournament. During 2003, by March Madness Athletic Association v. Netfire, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided that March Madness was not a generic term, and ordered Netfire to relinquish the domain name to the NCAA.[75]

Later during the 2000s, the IHSA relinquished its ownership share in the trademark, although it retained the right to use the term in association with high school championships. During October 2010, the NCAA reached a settlement with Intersport, paying $17.2 million for the latter company's license to use the trademark.[76]

Sweet Sixteen

This is a popular term for the regional semifinal round of the tournament, consisting of the final 16 teams. As in the case of "March Madness", this was first used by a high school federation—in this case, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA), which has used the term for decades to describe its own season-ending tournaments. It officially registered the trademark in 1988. Unlike the situation with "March Madness", the KHSAA has retained sole ownership of the "Sweet Sixteen" trademark; it licenses the term to the NCAA for use in collegiate tournaments.[77]

Elite Eight

The Elite Eight is a popular term to describe the two teams in each of the four regional championship games. The NCAA officially uses the term for the eight-team final phase of the Division II men's and women's basketball tournaments. The winners of these games in the D-I tournament advance to the Final Four (the NCAA does not use the term "Final Four" in D-II). The NCAA trademarked this phrase in 1997. Like "March Madness," the phrase "Elite Eight" originally referred to the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship, the single-elimination high school basketball tournament run by the Illinois High School Association. In 1956, when the IHSA finals were reduced from sixteen to eight teams, a new nickname for Sweet Sixteen was needed, and Elite Eight won the vote. The IHSA trademarked the term in 1995; the trademark rights are now held by the March Madness Athletic Association, a joint venture between the NCAA and IHSA formed after a 1996 court case allowed both organizations to use "March Madness" for their own tournaments.

Final Four

The term Final Four refers to the last four teams remaining in the playoff tournament. These are the champions of the tournament's four regional brackets, and are the only teams remaining on the tournament's final weekend. (While the term "Final Four" was not used during the early decades of the tournament, the term has been applied retroactively to include the last four teams in tournaments from earlier years, even when only two brackets existed.)

Some claim that the phrase Final Four was first used to describe the final games of Indiana's annual high school basketball tournament. But the NCAA, which has a trademark on the term, says Final Four was originated by a Plain Dealer sportswriter, Ed Chay, in a 1975 article that appeared in the Official Collegiate Basketball Guide.[78] The article stated that Marquette University "was one of the final four" of the 1974 tournament. The NCAA started capitalizing the term during 1978 and converting it to a trademark several years later.

During recent years, the term Final Four has been used for other sports besides basketball. Tournaments which use Final Four include the EuroLeague in basketball, national basketball competitions in several European countries, and the now-defunct European Hockey League. Together with the name Final Four, these tournaments have adopted an NCAA-style format in which the four surviving teams compete in a single-elimination tournament held in one place, typically, during one weekend. The derivative term "Frozen Four" is used by the NCAA to refer to the final rounds of the Division I men's and women's ice hockey tournaments. Until 1999, it was just a popular nickname for the last two rounds of the hockey tournament; officially, it was also known as the Final Four.

Cinderella team

A Cinderella team, both in NCAA basketball and other sports, is one that achieves far greater success than would reasonably have been best expected.[79][80] In the NCAA tournament, teams may earn the Cinderella title after multiple wins in a single tournament against higher seeded teams. The term first came into widespread usage in 1950, when the City College of New York unexpectedly won the tournament in the same month that a film adaptation of Cinderella was released in the United States.

Notable Cinderella teams include North Carolina State in 1983 (the subject of a 30 for 30 documentary titled Survive and Advance), Villanova in 1985 (the lowest-seeded team to ever win the tournament), LSU in 1986 (the only team to defeat the top three seeds in their region in the same tournament), UMBC in 2018 (the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed), Saint Peter's in 2022 (the first No. 15 seed to advance to the Elite Eight), and Fairleigh Dickinson (the second 16 seed to defeat a 1 seed) and Florida Atlantic (a 9 seed which had never won an NCAA tournament game before its Final Four run) in 2023.[81]

Notes

  1. ^ Under Pitino, Louisville won the title in 2013, but the NCAA vacated the 2013 title in February 2018 as a result of a 2015 sex scandal.

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