NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. The tournament teams include champions from 32 Division I conferences (which receive automatic bids), and 36 teams which are awarded at-large berths. These "at-large" teams are chosen by an NCAA selection committee in a nationally televised event on the Sunday preceding the First Four play-in games, currently held in Dayton, Ohio, and dubbed Selection Sunday, as detailed below. The 68 teams are divided into four regions and organized into a single elimination "bracket", which predetermines, when a team wins a game, which team it will face next. Each team is "seeded", or ranked, within its region. After an initial four games between eight lower-ranked teams, the tournament occurs during the course of three weekends, at pre-selected neutral sites around the United States.
Lower-ranked teams are placed in the bracket against higher ranked teams. Current tournament format[edit] Qualifying[edit] A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament played during March and April. Regions[edit] Sports Sponsorship. Fox. Are You Watching This?! About.com. USA Today. The Sports Network. Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - UCLA sophomore guard Kyle Anderson and freshman guard Zach LaVine have elected to forego their remaining collegiate eligibility and enter the 2014 NBA Draft. Anderson secured first-team All-Pac-12 honors and was named a third-team All-America selection as a sophomore in 2013-14.
He averaged closer to a triple-double than any player in the nation, registering 14.6 points, 8.8 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game. "I want to thank everyone at UCLA for all they have done for me," said Anderson. "My two years at UCLA were two of the best years of my life. It was a tough decision to make with my family since our last game, but I have decided to enter my name into the NBA Draft. I will still continue to embrace the UCLA community, and I hope they will do the same with me. " continue>> SI.com. Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg | Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP Jabari Parker (L) and Quinn Cook | Photo: Grant Halverson/Getty Andrew (L) and Aaron Harrison | Photo: MCT/Getty Derrick Gordon | Photo: Mitchell Layton/Getty. SB Nation.
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CollegeInsider.com. CollegeHoops.net. College basketball. In the United States, college basketball is competitive basketball between various universities. The history of college basketball can be traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The creation of basketball can be credited to a physical education teacher named James Naismith. During the winter of 1891, Naismith was given two weeks to come up with a game that would keep track athletes in shape and that could still prevent them from getting hurt. The first recorded basketball game was played on December 21, 1891 and thus college basketball had been born.[1] History[edit] The original rules for basketball were very different from today's modern rules of the sport. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist.A player cannot run with the ball.
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