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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]
Six additional coaches have had their only Final Four appearance vacated. This table shows non-vacated Final Four appearances and victories by coach; vacated records are shown in parentheses. The Third Place column is blank for coaches whose Final Four appearances were before 1946 or after 1981.
The 1996 Final Four was the last to take place in a venue built specifically for basketball. Since then, the Final Four has exclusively been played in large indoor football stadiums. Beginning in 2001, the field was expanded from 64 to 65 teams, adding to the tournament what was informally known as the "play-in game".
Listed below is every tournament winner, championship game final score, Final Four Most Outstanding Player and site. 2023: UConn (31-8) Championship game: UConn 76, San Diego State 59
2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament; Season: 2023–24: Teams: 68: Finals site: State Farm Stadium Glendale, Arizona: Champions: UConn Huskies (6th title, 6th title game, 7th Final Four) Runner-up: Purdue Boilermakers (2nd title game, 3rd Final Four) Semifinalists
TBS aired the Final Four for the second consecutive year. First Four – truTV; Second and third rounds – CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV; Regional semifinals and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) – CBS and TBS/2015 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament National Championship – CBS; National semifinals (Final Four) – TBS, TNT, truTV
2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament; Season: 2018–19: Teams: 68: Finals site: U.S. Bank Stadium Minneapolis, Minnesota: Champions: Virginia Cavaliers (1st title, 1st title game, 3rd Final Four) Runner-up: Texas Tech Red Raiders (1st title game, 1st Final Four) Semifinalists
Of the rotation players on the Final Four teams (those receiving regular playing time), the highest-ranked in the composite recruiting rankings of 247Sports was UConn's Jordan Hawkins, who was #51 in the 2021 class. Only eight rotation players in the Final Four were even ranked in the top 100; by contrast, 12 players were unranked in high school.