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For 2014 the selection committee picked a total of 68 teams that would enter the 2014 tournament, of which 32 were "automatic bids" (teams winning their conference tournaments, with the exception of the Ivy League, which does not host a post-season conference tournament; thus, its regular-season conference champion is awarded the automatic bid) while the remaining 36 were "at large" bids which ...
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.
UConn entered the 2014 NCAA Tournament as an at-large selection and was given the number 7 seed in the East Region. In the second round of the tournament, UConn pulled away from St. Joseph's, beating them 89–81 in overtime. [12] In the third round, Shabazz Napier scored 25 points to beat Villanova 77–65. [13]
Smart's 11-seed Rams, who sneaked into the NCAA Tournament in the first year of the First Four, defeated USC 59-36 to punch the program's first ticket to March Madness since 2009.
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 ...
Instead, Kentucky missed the tournament in 2013 before a surprising run to the national title game in 2014 as a No. 8 seed. In 2015, the Wildcats lost in the Final Four as a No. 1 seed.
Every spring the top college basketball teams vie for national greatness. Check out all of the NCAA men's championship winners since the tournament's creation in 1939... all in one place. Check ...
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.