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This is a list of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament regional championships by coach. The current names of the NCAA tournament regions are the East, Midwest, South, and West. The winners of the four regions are awarded an NCAA Regional Championship Trophy and advance in the Division I men's basketball tournament to play in the ...
Beginning in 1946, a national third-place game was held before the championship game. Regional third-place games were played in the West from 1939 and the East from 1941. Despite expansion in 1951, there were still only two regions, each with a third-place game. The 1952 tournament had four regions each with a third-place game.
Between 1939 and 1951, the Regional Championships were the National Semifinals, with the winners advancing to a separate site. From 1952 to the present, the Regional Championships are the national quarterfinals with the winners advancing to the Final Four. In most editions of the tournament these sites have been given a geographic designation ...
In 1982, the NCAA eliminated the game and the two losing teams of the semifinal games are considered tied for third place in the official record book. At the conclusion of the championship game, one player is awarded the Most Outstanding Player award. Eleven times a player was awarded the MOP without being on the championship team.
Regional tournaments consisted of 4-team or 6-team double elimination brackets. Depending on how the tournament played out, there could be two teams tying for 3rd place, or separate 3rd and 4th place teams. Many 6-team brackets include a tie for 5th place. R 2 2nd place in Regional tournament R 3 3rd place in Regional tournament
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been the most successful college in the NCAA Tournament, winning 11 national titles. Ten of those championships came during a 12-year stretch from 1964 to 1975. UCLA also holds the record for the most consecutive championships, winning seven in a row from 1967 to 1973.
[1] [2] For the first time in tournament history, all four top-seeded teams in a single region (the South) failed to make the Sweet 16. The tournament also featured the first regional final matchup of a 9-seed (Kansas State) and an 11-seed (Loyola–Chicago).
NCAA Division I champions are the winners of annual top-tier competitions among American college sports teams. This list also includes championships classified by the NCAA as "National Collegiate", the organization's official branding of championship events open to members of more than one of the NCAA's three legislative and competitive divisions.