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The 1978 NCAA Division I basketball tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11, 1978, and ended with the championship game on March 27 in St. Louis, Missouri. A total of 32 games were played, including a national third ...
The NCAA tournament expanded from 32 to 40 teams and used seeding to place all teams in its bracket for the first time. [3] The first public lottery for tickets to the NCAA tournament Final Four was held. [3] The championship game enjoyed the highest television rating in college basketball history. [2]
The Sun Belt has a storied basketball history, sending multiple teams into the NCAA tournament in the 1980s and 1990s (most recently 1994), and then again in 2008 when both regular season champion South Alabama, and tournament winner Western Kentucky received bids, and in 2013 with Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee.
The draw was revealed for the 2024 NCAA men’s basketball tournament on Sunday night.. Click here to obtain a printable bracket you can use to make your predictions. The NCAA made defending ...
Need a blank bracket to fill out during Sunday’s NCAA Tournament Selection Shows? Here you go. 2024 NCAA Tournaments: Get blank men’s, women’s printable brackets before Selection Sunday
The 1978–79 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team represented the University of Louisville during the 1978–79 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Louisville's 65th season of intercollegiate competition.
But all four will likely need to win this week's tournament to make the NCAA Tournament. The games in Fort Worth throughout the week lead up to the March 17 championship game, televised by ESPN.
This tournament was the last until the 2019 tournament to see two finalists playing for the national championship for the first time. The 1979 Final Four was the first in which all four schools came from east of the Mississippi River. This was the first NCAA tournament where three officials were assigned to all games.