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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament for men's college basketball teams in the United States. It determines the champion of Division I, the top level of play in the NCAA, [1] and the media often describes the winner as the national champion of college ...
This was the fifth national championship game to be played between two private universities, and the first since the 1985 national title game between Georgetown and Villanova, won by Villanova, 66–64. The other three besides 1985 and 2010 were in 1942, 1954, and 1955.
The Championship Game was also streamed live for free on NCAA.com. [31] An average of 28.3 million watched the Championship Game on CBS, making the 2015 edition the most viewed NCAA men's basketball championship game since Arizona beat Kentucky in overtime in the 1997 contest. [32]
North Carolina defeated Gonzaga, 71–65, to win its sixth men's basketball national championship. [3] This was the first national championship game to be played in a state in either the Mountain or Pacific time zones since the 1995 game, which was held at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. [4]
The 2011 national championship game was between Butler, a mid-major university team that was a surprise finalist in the 2010 tournament, and The University of Connecticut, a basketball powerhouse which had previously won the tournament twice under coach Jim Calhoun but had had an average regular season, finishing 9th in the Big East before ...
The tournament seeds and regions were determined through the NCAA basketball tournament selection process. In contrast to previous years, the S-Curve used to establish overall seeds will also be used as primary determinant of the tournament bracket; this was made possible by the relatively condensed locations of this year's tournament making ...
On their way to the championship game, the Jayhawks defeated Texas Southern, Creighton, Providence, Miami, and Villanova. Martin was the team's leading scorer for three games during the tournament. [9] After defeating Providence in the Sweet 16, Kansas passed Kentucky for the most wins in Division I men's college basketball history. [11]
The 2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16, 2004, and ended with the championship game on April 5 at the Alamodome in San Antonio , Texas.