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Combined with the 0–6 mark of the men's team, LSU's 0-11 all-time combined Final Four mark was the worst for schools which have made multiple appearances in both the men's and women's Final Fours. LSU's women ended this drought by defeating Virginia Tech in the 2023 national semifinals.
The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship is an annual single-elimination tournament featuring 65 teams representing all Division I Conferences in the nation. A "play-in" game determined which of the two lowest seeds would play in the first round of 64 against a top seed team.
In the 1st round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament, Memphis had a 15–2 run that eventually led to an 87–63 victory over Texas-Arlington. [9] In the 2nd round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament, Joey Dorsey had a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds to lead Memphis to a 77–74 victory over Mississippi State to advance to the Sweet 16 for the 3rd ...
Conference tournament winners received an automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The Ivy League was the only NCAA Division I conference that did not hold a conference tournament, instead sending its regular-season champion, Cornell , [ 23 ] to the NCAA tournament.
The 2008 SEC women's basketball tournament was held on March 6–9, 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Sommet Center. Tennessee won the tournament and received the SEC's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA tournament .
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).
The 2008 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament was the 27th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States. Howard Payne defeated Messiah in the championship game, 68–54, to claim the Yellow Jackets' first Division III national title.
Georgia, which had a sub-.500 record (13–16, 4–12 in the SEC) going into the tournament and had to win the title to secure an NCAA Tournament bid, was forced to play and win three games in the space of 30 hours, including two games on Saturday — the original quarterfinal game against Kentucky that was postponed by the tornado and venue ...