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Oregon won the inaugural tournament, defeating Ohio State 46–33 in the first championship game. Before the 1941 tournament, control of the event was given to the NCAA. [11] In the early years of the tournament, it was considered less important than the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), a New York City-based event.
Triple-doubles (see Final Four records section for other tournament triple-doubles) The NCAA officially recorded assists for two seasons in the early 1950s, but discontinued the practice after the 1951–52 season, not resuming until the 1984–85 season. Steals and blocks were not officially added as NCAA statistics until the 1986–87 season.
The NCAA tournament has been held every year but one since 1939 when Oregon won the inaugural crown with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in the championship game.
Additionally, good teams were often excluded from the NCAA tournament because each conference could only have one bid and conference champions were even excluded because of the 8-district system before 1950. Teams often competed in both tournaments during the first decade, with City College of New York winning both the NIT and NCAA tournament ...
An additional state, Minnesota, had its only appearance vacated. 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.
This is a list of NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament all-time records, updated through the 2023 tournament. [1] [2] Schools whose names are italicized are no longer in Division I, and can no longer be included in the tournament. Teams with (*) have had games vacated due to NCAA rules violations. The records do include vacated games.
Prior to the 1940s, in end-of-year accounts of national sporting champions, major newspapers regarded the winning team at Lake Placid as intercollegiate champion. In the late 1930s, a major annual "four-way" (downhill, slalom, jumping and cross-country) intercollegiate event began in Sun Valley, Idaho.
NCAA basketball tournament (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of NCAA basketball champions .