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A conference tournament in college basketball is a tournament held at the end of the regular season to determine a conference tournament champion. It is usually held in four rounds, but can vary, depending on the conference. All Division I Conferences hold a conference tournament. Winners of each tournament get an automatic bid to the NCAA ...
Per the NCAA, an upset occurs "when the losing team in an NCAA tournament game was seeded at least five seed lines better than the winning team." [8] The 2024 tournament saw a total of 9 upsets, with seven in the first round, one in the Sweet Sixteen and one in the Elite Eight.
NCAA Tournament Bid Losing School Regular Season Champion NCAA Tournament Bid Atlantic Coast Virginia NCAA North Carolina RS NCAA Big Sky Boise State RS NCAA Weber State RS East Coast Hofstra NCAA Temple Metro Cincinnati NCAA Memphis State NCAA Mid-Eastern North Carolina A&T RS MD-Eastern Shore Ohio Valley WKU RS NCAA Morehead State Pacific Coast
The 2023 tournament was Jim Nantz's final season as the lead play-by-play announcer, with Ian Eagle succeeding him starting in 2024 onwards. [23] The 2023 tournament was also Greg Gumbel's last as studio host, as he was unavailable due to family health concerns for the 2024 NCAA tournament before he died from cancer on December 27, 2024. [24]
The Selection Committee, which includes conference commissioners and university athletic directors appointed by the NCAA, determines the bracket during the week before the tournament. Since the results of several conference tournaments occurring during the same week can significantly impact the bracket, the Committee often makes several ...
Oregon won the inaugural tournament, defeating Ohio State 46–33 in the first championship game. Before the 1941 tournament, control of the event was given to the NCAA. [11] In the early years of the tournament, it was considered less important than the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), a New York City-based event.
The Mid-American Conference men's basketball tournament is an NCAA Division I postseason single-elimination tournament. The winner of the tournament receives the Mid-American Conference (MAC) automatic bid to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. As of 2021, the top eight teams in conference play qualify for the tournament. [1]
The tournament seeds and regions were determined through the NCAA basketball tournament selection process and were published by the selection committee after the brackets were released. [8] This was the fifth consecutive tournament in which at least one of the four #1 seeds repeated their #1 seeding from the year before.