![]() ![]() Before then, the tournament sized varied from as little as 8 to as many as 53. The 68-team format was adopted in 2011 it had remained largely unchanged since 1985 when it expanded to 64 teams. The winning team is crowned national champion, which celebrates by cutting down the nets and watching a montage of the tournament set to One Shining Moment. Four teams then advance to the third weekend for the national semifinals and national championship, collectively referred to as the Final Four. Sixteen winners advance to the second weekend to compete in the regional semifinals and finals, also known as the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, respectively, for the number of participants in the round. ![]() The first week starts with eight teams competing in the First Four, with the four winners joining 60 teams to compete in the first and second rounds. The tournament consists of seven rounds and is conducted over three successive weeks. Teams are placed in four regions and given a seed between 1 and 16 within the region. These "at-large" teams are chosen by an NCAA selection committee, then announced in a nationally televised event dubbed Selection Sunday. The tournament teams include champions from 32 Division I conferences and 36 teams which are awarded at-large berths. Known for its upsets of favored teams, it has become one of the biggest annual sporting events in the US. ![]() Played mostly during March, the tournament consists of 68 teams and was first conducted in 1939. BennettĬlick here to download The Athletic’s 2023 men’s NCAA Tournament bracket.The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. 5 seed, will take on a popular Cinderella pick in Oral Roberts, which went undefeated in the Summit League and has a star guard in Max Abmas, who helped lead the Golden Eagles to the Sweet 16 two years ago.Looking ahead to the second round, we could get Texas-Texas A&M, Duke- Tennessee and UConn-Saint Mary’s, if those teams advance. All the 8-9 games are intriguing, especially Illinois– Arkansas. Kentucky will face Providence and its star Bryce Hopkins, who transferred from the Wildcats last year. Penn State, which nearly won the Big Ten tournament, is a high-level 7-10 game. Bennett Most intriguing first-round matchups? The committee has shown it time and time again: Play good teams out of your conference, or suffer the consequences. Rutgers also got punished for a bad out-of-league schedule, missing the field despite wins at Purdue, Northwestern, Penn State and against Indiana. The Aggies, though, played a bad nonconference schedule, which cost them a bid last year and knocked them a couple seed lines lower this time around. 1 overall seed Alabama in the regular-season finale. 7 seed despite playing like one of the best teams in the country in the final few months, including a win over No. Brian Bennett, The Athletic ’s bracketologist Who got snubbed? Nevada making the field as the fourth team from the Mountain West was also a surprise, as most bracketologists had them out. The Cougars could potentially face Auburn in Birmingham in the second round - the committee flubbed big time on that one - then either Xavier or Indiana in the Sweet 16 and possibly Big 12 tournament champ Texas, which could have been a No. To be fair, Houston didn’t get a substantially easier path. It’s a rough way to treat the defending champs. That’s if the Jayhawks can get by teams like UConn and Saint Mary’s in the top half of the bracket. To top it off, Kansas got sent out West, where it could have to contend with UCLA and Gonzaga in their time zone in a potential Elite Eight showdown.
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