Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
As an alternative to eliminating an at-large bid, the NCAA expanded the tournament to 65 teams. The #64 and #65 seeds were seeded in a regional bracket as 16 seeds, and then played the opening round game on the Tuesday preceding the first weekend of the tournament. This game was always played at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio.
The 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final round of the 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and determined the national champion for the 1986–87 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on March 30, 1987, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, and featured the Midwest Regional Champion, #1-seeded Indiana and the ...
[44] [45] CBS obtained the rights to broadcast the NCAA Tournament, after the tournament had been previously broadcast by NBC. [43] A total of 17.52 million homes, 30% of the television audience, watched the game. [44] The broadcast earned a 21.5 Nielsen Rating, the second highest for the NCAA national championship game at the time, after 1979 ...
The game was played on March 24, 1980, at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, and featured the Midwest Regional Champion, #2-seeded Louisville and the West Regional Champion, #8-seeded UCLA. The Cardinals narrowly defeated the Bruins to win their first national championship in program history.
The 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12, 1987, and ended with the championship game on March 30 in New Orleans, Louisiana .
On their way to the championship game, the Jayhawks defeated Texas Southern, Creighton, Providence, Miami, and Villanova. Martin was the team's leading scorer for three games during the tournament. [9] After defeating Providence in the Sweet 16, Kansas passed Kentucky for the most wins in Division I men's college basketball history. [11]
The National Championship game was between Butler, a mid-major university team that was a surprise finalist in the 2010 tournament, and Connecticut, a basketball powerhouse which had previously won the tournament twice under coach Jim Calhoun but had an average regular season finishing 9th in the Big East Conference before winning The Big East ...