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This is a list of qualifying teams in the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.A total of 68 teams are entered into the tournament.Thirty-two of the teams qualified via automatic bids, usually earned by winning their conference tournaments, while the remaining 36 teams were selected via "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
The 2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place at the Palacio de Santoña in Madrid , Spain , from June 16 to July 5, 2022, [ 2 ] with the World Championship finishing in April 2023. [ 3 ]
A total of 68 teams have been entered into the 2022 tournament. A total of 32 automatic bids were awarded to each program that won a conference tournament (with one exception, as the tournament winner in the ASUN Conference was ineligible, due to its transition from Division II).
This is a list of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament bids by school, and is updated through 2024. [1] There are currently 68 bids possible each year (32 automatic qualifiers, 36 at-large). Schools not currently in Division I are in italics (e.g., CCNY) and some have appeared under prior names (e.g., UTEP went by Texas Western in 1966).
Before 1950, the champion had the right to handpick a challenger. However, a number of tournaments acted as de facto candidates tournaments: The London 1883 chess tournament established Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz as the best two players in the world, and was one of the important events leading to the first official world championship match between the two, in 1886.
The 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 9, 2021 and concluded on March 13, 2022. The 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament culminated the season and began on March 15 and concluded on April 4 with the championship game at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Since 2022, the tournament has featured 64 teams, with teams beginning play at one of sixteen regional sites with the winners of those regionals playing at the final venue. [1] [2] From 1992 to 2020, the NAIA sponsored two championships, one for its Division I members and another for those in its Division II.
The Tar Heels were attempting to become the second No. 8 seed to win the tournament, joining Villanova in 1985. [7] Davis was seeking to become the first Division I men's basketball coach to win a national championship in his first full season. He was the tenth first-year coach to lead a team to the Final Four. [5]