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Only twice has there been no national champion in a calendar year. [18] The first occurrence was when the 2013 championship won by Louisville became the first men's basketball national title to ever be vacated by the NCAA after the school and its coach at the time, Rick Pitino, were implicated in a 2015 sex scandal involving recruits.
Championships John Wooden: UCLA 10 Mike Krzyzewski: Duke 5 Adolph Rupp: Kentucky 4 Roy Williams: North Carolina 3 Jim Calhoun: UConn 3 Bob Knight: Indiana 3 Denny Crum: Louisville 2 Billy Donovan: Florida 2 Henry Iba: Oklahoma State 2 Ed Jucker: Cincinnati 2 Branch McCracken: Indiana 2 Dean Smith: North Carolina 2 Phil Woolpert: San Francisco 2 ...
Predating the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament by one year, the NIT was considered the most prestigious post-season showcase for college basketball before its status was superseded in the mid-1950s by the NCAA tournament. [1] [2] A second, much more recent "NIT" tournament is played in November and known as the NIT Season Tip-Off ...
Rank College First Season Seasons Wins Losses Ties Win% 1 Kansas: 1896 126 2,413 758 1 .760 2 Kentucky: 1912 118 2,398 896 0 .728 3 North Carolina
NCAA basketball tournament (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of NCAA basketball champions .
The history of basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts.The sport was created by a physical education teacher named James Naismith, who in the winter of 1891 was given the task of creating a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that would prevent them from getting hurt.
When ESPN announced the location and schedule for the 2023 edition in late 2022, it said the Champions Classic is among the top-watched basketball matchups of the year, averaging 1.7 million ...
Villanova vacated its 1971 championship game loss because Howard Porter had signed a professional contract with the Pittsburgh Condors of the American Basketball Association (ABA) during the regular season. The Most Outstanding Player award was also vacated, as it had been awarded to Porter despite his team losing the championship game.