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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]
This table shows non-vacated Final Four appearances and victories by state; vacated records are shown in parentheses. The Third Place column is blank for states whose Final Four appearances were before 1946 or after 1981. Schools noted as vacated had all their Final Four appearances vacated.
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".
The Final Four consisted of Arkansas, making its fifth trip and first since 1990, Arizona, Florida, making its first trip, and Duke, making its sixth trip in the last seven tournaments. In the national championship game, Arkansas defeated Duke by a score of 76–72 and won its first-ever national championship.
The four teams were all previous champions as well—Ohio State (1960), Georgetown (1984), UCLA (several), and Florida (2006)—marking the fourth time that all of the Final Four teams were past champions (joining 1993, 1995 and 1998 Final Fours). Also, it was the first time in nine years that no two Final Four teams were from the same conference.
March 18–19 Second round March 20–21 Regional semifinals March 25 Regional finals March 27 1 Saint Joseph's: 82: 16 Liberty: 63 1 Saint Joseph's: 70: Buffalo - Thu/Sat 8 Texas Tech 65 8 Texas Tech: 76: 9 Charlotte: 73 1 Saint Joseph's: 84: 4 Wake Forest 80 5 Florida: 60 12 Manhattan: 75: 12 Manhattan 80 Raleigh - Thu/Sat 4 Wake Forest: 84: ...
Construction of the Final Four tournament in Mercedes-Benz Stadium would have started on March 23. [ 6 ] On March 11, hours after the WHO's pandemic declaration, the NBA suspended its regular season after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert was diagnosed with COVID-19. [ 7 ]
Final Four triple-doubles The NCAA recognizes these achievements as unofficial triple-doubles. As noted earlier, assists, steals, and blocks were not kept on a national basis until well into the 1980s; the current array of national statistics did not fully take shape until the 1986–87 season.