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The game was played on April 7, 2008, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas and featured the South Regional Champion, #1-seeded Memphis, and the Midwest Regional Champion, #1-seeded Kansas. All four #1 seeds were in the Final Four for the first (and as of 2024 only) time in NCAA Tournament history and, for the second consecutive year, the ...
Memphis became the first team currently from a conference other than the six majors to play in the championship game since 1998. Utah advanced to the championship game in 1998, and UNLV was the last team from a non-major conference to win the national title in 1990. [83] KU fans celebrating in downtown Lawrence after KU's win over Memphis
The semifinals of the tournament are known as the Final Four and are held in a different city each year, along with the championship game; [8] Indianapolis, the city where the NCAA is based, will host the Final Four every five years until 2040. [9] Each winning university receives a rectangular, gold-plated trophy made of wood. [10]
The 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 28, 2008, and ended on December 6, 2008.
Became AP Poll championship game after No. 1 and 2 teams lost the Rose and Cotton Bowl games earlier in the day. 1966: Game of the Century [233] [234] No. 1 Notre Dame: 10–10: No. 2 Michigan State: The following week Notre Dame defeated USC in its last regular season game. [237] 1967: Game of the Century [238] [239] No. 4 USC: 21–20: No. 1 UCLA
The 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 10, 2008, and ended with the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament's championship game on April 6, 2009, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. The season saw six different teams achieve the AP #1 ranking during the year (just one shy of the NCAA record).
After game delays and a venue change, the Georgia Bulldogs scored an unlikely championship run that included winning two games in one day. [10] At Arizona, coach Lute Olson took an unexpected leave of absence just prior to the season's start. Kevin O'Neill, assistant coach and supposed Olson successor, was named interim coach. Olson announced ...
The team played its home games in the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team won the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the fifth NCAA national title in school history. Considered one of the greatest teams in college basketball history, the Tar Heels won their ...