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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 Wolfpack eventually became the sixth 11-seed to reach the Final Four. The Final Four consisted of UConn (second consecutive appearance), Alabama (their first Final Four appearance in program history), NC State (first appearance since 1983), and Purdue (first appearance since 1980).
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]
The listed Final Four totals for those coaches do not include the vacated appearances. Coaches with names in bold are active with a team that they took to a Final Four. Coaches with names in bold italics are active in NCAA Division I, but are not currently coaching a team that they took to a Final Four. Years in bold indicate national championship.
Of the rotation players on the Final Four teams (those receiving regular playing time), the highest-ranked in the composite recruiting rankings of 247Sports was UConn's Jordan Hawkins, who was #51 in the 2021 class. Only eight rotation players in the Final Four were even ranked in the top 100; by contrast, 12 players were unranked in high school.
This also marked the third Final Four appearance for the Virginia Cavaliers of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but their first since 1984. The championship game was the first time since 1979 to see two first-time participants playing in the championship, and the first since 2006 to have a first-time national champion. [ 13 ]
An example of a final four event. In sports, the final four is the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament. Usually the final four compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final (penultimate) round. Of these teams, the two who win in the semi-final round play another single-elimination game whose winner is ...