NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

Known as the March madness, NCAA men's basketball tournament brings together all the college basketball top teams to compete with each other. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is divided into three divisions; the qualification of division is not by talent but by the ability of the school to sponsor a specific number of teams around the NCAA.

In all these, the Division I of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is the most followed. This division consists of the biggest schools of the US including the Ivy League schools. On this account, the school can get the best players to play for NCAA men's basketball tournament.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket is the same in all divisions. Since 1981, the NCAA created a committee to select the best teams in the league who were not able to automatically qualify by way of winning their respective conferences. The NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket consists of 64 teams, 31 of them are conference champions and the rest would be determined by the committee.

To be part of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament brackets, the committee will take note of the team’s performance in terms of RPI (Ratings Performance Index). The numbers included in the index is the percentage of winning, the percentage of the teams they won against and the percentage of the team they lost with.

The complexity of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament especially in the tournament selection is fairly higher compared to the previous tournaments. The first NCAA men's basketball tournament doesn’t have a selection process since there are only enough teams that can compete for the tournament. The tournament was held in at the Patton Gymnasium in Illinois. The championship game was between Oregon and Ohio State where Oregon captured the championship in with the score of 46 compared to Ohio’s 33. The game was recorded as one of the earliest NCAA men's basketball tournament facts.

As of this writing the 2006 NCAA men's basketball tournament and the 2007 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the Division I were ruled by only one team: the Florida Gators. During the 2006 NCAA men's basketball tournament, the Gators defeated UCLA 73-57. When all the starters of the Gators returned for another year, the 2007 NCAA men’s basketball tournament was theirs once again after defeating Ohio State 84-75. Media coverage has given enough information about our favorite NCAA team. Internet has also given the followers of the league the whole NCAA and men's basketball tournament schedule. There they can even look for facts and their team’s NCAA men's basketball tournament scores.