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University of Miami
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The University of Miami is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2015, the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, the university offers 116 undergraduate,105 masters, and 63 doctoral degree programs, of which 59 are research/scholarship and four professional areas of study. Over the years, the students have represented all 50 states. With more than 14,000 full and part-time faculty and staff, uM’s main campus in Coral Gables has 239 acres and over 5.7 million square feet of buildings. In the 2017 U. S. News and World Report study of colleges and universities, Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM offers a library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage. UM also offers a range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities. UMs intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, UMs football team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982. They believed that a university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak, the university began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres and nearly $5 million, to the effort. These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had sold in the city. The university was chartered on April 18,1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the boom had collapsed. For the next 15 years the university barely remained solvent, the construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, in 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UMs plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open, a reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UMs first president Bowman Foster Ashe. The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E. B, douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C, in 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest
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Atlantic Coast Conference
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The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions athletic programs held in high regard nationally. ACC teams and athletes have claimed dozens of championships in multiple sports throughout the conferences history. Generally, the ACCs top athletes and teams in any sport in a given year are considered to be among the top collegiate competitors in the nation. Also, the conference enjoys extensive media coverage, the ACC was one of the six collegiate power conferences, which had automatic qualifying for their football champion into the Bowl Championship Series. With the advent of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the ACC is one of five conferences with a contractual tie-in to an access bowl, the additions in recent years extended the conferences footprint into the Northeast and Midwest. The most recent expansion in 2013 saw the additions of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pittsburgh, in 2012, the University of Marylands Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC to join the Big Ten Conference effective July 1,2014. On November 28,2012, the ACCs Council of Presidents voted unanimously to invite the University of Louisville as a full member, replacing Maryland effective July 1,2014. Seven universities in the South Atlantic States were charter members of the ACC, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, previously members of the Southern Conference, they left partially due to that leagues ban on post-season football play. After drafting a set of bylaws for the creation of a new league, the bylaws were ratified on June 14,1953, and the ACC was created, becoming the second conference formed by schools collectively withdrawing from the SoCon, after the Southeastern Conference. On December 4,1953, officials convened in Greensboro, North Carolina, and admitted Virginia, in 1960, the ACC implemented a minimum SAT score for incoming student-athletes of 750, the first conference to do so. This minimum was raised to 800 in 1964, but was struck down by a federal court in 1972. In 1971, South Carolina left the ACC to become an independent, the ACC operated with seven members until the addition of Georgia Tech from the Metro Conference on April 3,1978. The total number of member schools reached nine with the addition of Florida State, also formerly from the Metro Conference, on July 1,1991. The expansion was controversial, as Connecticut, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia filed lawsuits against the ACC, Miami, and Boston College for conspiring to weaken the Big East Conference. The ACC Hall of Champions opened on March 2,2011, next to the Greensboro Coliseum arena, on September 17,2011, Big East Conference members Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh both tendered formal written applications to the ACC to join its ranks. The two schools were accepted into the conference the day, once again expanding the conference footprint like previous expansions. Because the Big East intended to hold Pitt and Syracuse to the 27-month notice period required by league bylaws, however, on July 16,2012, the Big East and Syracuse came to an agreement that allowed Syracuse to leave the Big East on July 1,2013. Two days later, the Big East and Pittsburgh reached an identical agreement, on September 12,2012, Notre Dame agreed to join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey as the conferences first member in the Midwestern United States
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Coral Gables, Florida
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Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami. The United States Census Bureau estimates conducted in 2013 yielded the city had a population of 49,631, Coral Gables is home to the University of Miami. The city of Coral Gables has its own newspaper, Coral Gables News, Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is infamous for its strict zoning regulations, the city was developed by George Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The citys architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival style, including the Coral Gables Congregational Church, the domed, Catholic Church of the Little Flower was built somewhat later, in a similar Spanish Renaissance style. By 1926, the city covered 10,000 acres and had netted $150 million in sales, Merrick meticulously designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles long. The main artery bisected the business district, Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. During World War II many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables, Coral Gables is located at 25°43′42″N 80°16′16″W. It is bordered on the west by Red Road north of Sunset Drive and West 49th Avenue and it is bordered on the north by Tamiami Trail/U. S. Route 41, except for a section that extends north of 8th Street for eight blocks between Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Douglas Road. S. 1 to Battersea Road, and by Biscayne Bay south of Battersea Road, on the south, it is bordered by the Charles Deering Estate. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 37.2 square miles. 13.1 square miles of it is land and 24.0 square miles of it is water. 4% were vacant, in 2000,24. 45% had children under the age of 18 living with them. In Coral Gables,61. 11% were family households,17. 3% had a householder with no husband present. The average household size was 2.36, and the household had 1.68 vehicles. In 2000, the city population was out with 17. 4% under the age of 18,14. 58% from 18 to 24,25. 02% from 25 to 44,27. 01% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.44 years, the population consisted of 51. 31% females and 48. 69% males. In 2000, the income for a household in the city was $77,890
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Watsco Center
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The venue hosts concerts, family shows, trade shows, lecture series, university events and sporting events, including all University of Miami mens and womens basketball games. Owned by the university, it is managed by Global Spectrum and it is named after Miami-based air conditioning company Watsco. The Watsco Center is served by the Miami Metrorail at the University Station, the arena opened in 2003 as the University of Miami Convocation Center, and is home to the Miami Hurricanes Mens and Womens basketball teams. Events held in the Watsco Center include concerts, sporting events, lectures, award shows, high school graduations and it is the largest arena ever built on campus. Prior to the opening of the Watsco Center, the school played its games at the Miami Arena since its opening in 1988, official Web Site BankUnited Center - Traditions - University of Miami Hurricanes
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Miami Hurricanes
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The Miami Hurricanes are the varsity sports teams of the University of Miami, located in the Coral Gables suburb of Miami, Florida. They compete in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the university fields 15 athletic teams for 17 varsity sports. Mens teams compete in baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, football, tennis, womens teams compete in basketball, cross-country, swimming and diving, golf, rowing, soccer, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. UM has approximately equal participation by male and female varsity athletes in these sports, Team colors are green, orange, and white. The school mascot is Sebastian the Ibis, the schools athletics logo is a simple green and orange, color of an orange tree, letter U. The schools marching band is the Band of the Hour, aside from being an independent in baseball, the Hurricanes were a full member of the Big East Conference from 1991 to 2004. In 2004, the became a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Miamis traditional athletic rivals include the Seminoles of Florida State University, the Hurricanes have played more football games against the Seminoles than against any other opponent, the series began in 1951, and has been played annually since 1969. The Hurricanes first played the Gators in football in 1938, since then, Miami and Florida have met only six times. The Hurricanes and the Gators last scheduled meeting was the game in Miami on September 7,2013, as of the fall of 2013, Miami holds a 29–26 series lead against Florida. UM has won four championships and reached the College World Series 22 times in the 34 seasons since 1974. Five UM graduates are active on MLB teams. The team is coached by Jim Morris, the former head coach of the Georgia Tech baseball team. Former coach Ron Fraser was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in July 2006, the team plays its games on the UM campus, in Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. Morris contract as coach has been extended through 2015, Morris has established a record of 850–344–3 in 19 seasons at Miami. His teams reached the College World Series in his first six seasons at UM, the Mascot for the baseball team is The Miami Maniac. Miami holds the longest consecutive post season appearance streak at 44 consecutive years and this streak is the longest of any mens NCAA Div.1 major sport, topping the football post season streak of 35 seasons and the basketball streak of 27 seasons. The Miami Hurricanes mens basketball team has produced three players who are currently on NBA rosters, rick Barry, who played his collegiate basketball at UM, is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
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ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
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The ACC Mens Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Atlantic Coast Conference. The tournament has been every year since 1954, the ACCs first season. It is a tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the automatic bid to the NCAA mens basketball tournament. Since July 1,1961, the ACCs bylaws have included the phrase, the ACC recognizes and awards trophies for the Regular Season Champion. * Denotes the venue for a future ACC Mens Basketball Tournament, a The 1972–73 NC State Wolfpack team was forced to skip postseason play due to an NCAA recruiting infraction. Assistant coach Eddie Biedenbach had played in a basketball game with David Thompson on a recruiting visit to Raleigh. The Wolfpack finished the season undefeated at 27–0 but forfeited the opportunity to compete for the national championship, B The University of Maryland, College Park, left the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2014 and is now a member of the Big Ten Conference. C The University of South Carolina left the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1971, D Since the tournament began, through the 2015 tournament, the lowest seeded team to win the championship is the sixth seed. This has happened five times, Virginia in 1976, Duke in 1980, NC State in 1987, Georgia Tech in 1993, and Maryland in 2004. Before 2005, when the league had 8 or 9 members, following the expansion to 12 teams for the 2005 tournament, the lowest seeded team to reach the finals was the 2007 NC State squad as a 10th seed. General Specific For all Tournaments played before the 1999–2000 season, ACC Basketball Archive
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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen. Played mostly during March, it has one of the most famous annual sporting events in the United States. The tournament teams include champions from 32 Division I conferences, and 36 teams which are awarded at-large berths, the 68 teams are divided into four regions and organized into a single-elimination bracket, which pre-determines, when a team wins a game, which team it will face next. Each team is seeded, or ranked, within its region from 1 to 32, after an initial four games between eight lower-ranked teams, the tournament occurs during the course of three weekends, at pre-selected neutral sites across the United States. The Final Four is usually played during the first weekend of April and these four teams, one from each region, compete in a pre-selected location for the national championship. The tournament has been at least partially televised since 1969, currently, the games are broadcast by CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV under the trade-name NCAA March Madness. Since 2011, all games are available for viewing nationwide and internationally, such as in the Philippines, as television coverage has grown, so too has the tournaments popularity. Currently, millions of Americans fill out a bracket, attempting to predict the outcome of all 67 games of the tournament. With 11 national titles, UCLA has the record for the most NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, the University of Kentucky is second, with eight national titles. The University of North Carolina is in place, with six titles, while Duke University. The University of Connecticut is sixth with four national titles, the University of Kansas and University of Louisville are tied with three championships. During that time Villanova, Michigan, UNLV, Duke, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, the NCAA has changed the tournament format several times since its inception, most often representing an increase of the number of teams. This section describes the tournament as it has operated since 2011, for changes during the course of its history, and to see how the tournament operated during past years, go to Format history, below. A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament played during March, thirty-two teams earn automatic bids as their respective conference champions. Of the 32 Division I all-sports conferences, all 32 currently hold championship tournaments to determine which team receives the automatic qualification. The Ivy League was the last Division I conference that did not conduct a tournament, through the 2015–16 season, if two or more Ivies shared a regular-season championship, a one-game playoff was used to decide the tournament participant. Since 2017, the league conducts their own postseason tournament, the committee also determines where all sixty-eight teams are seeded and placed in the bracket. The tournament is divided into four regions and each region has at least sixteen teams, the committee is charged with making each of the four regions as close as possible in overall quality of teams from wherever they come from
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National Invitation Tournament
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The National Invitation Tournament is a mens college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Played at Madison Square Garden in New York City each March and April, over time it became eclipsed by the NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament – known today informally as March Madness and The Big Dance. The NIT has since been regarded more as a tournament for teams that did not receive a berth in the NCAA tournament. A second, much more recent NIT tournament is played in November, formerly the Preseason NIT, it was founded in 1985. Like the postseason NIT, its final rounds are played at Madison Square Garden, both tournaments were operated by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association until 2005, when they were purchased by the NCAA, and the MIBA disbanded. Unless otherwise qualified, the terms NIT or National Invitation Tournament refer to the tournament in both common and official use. The first NIT was won by the Temple University Owls over the Colorado Buffaloes and this became the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association in 1948. Originally the tournament invited a field of 6 teams, with all games played at Madison Square Garden in downtown Manhattan. The field was expanded to 8 teams in 1941,12 in 1949,14 in 1965,16 in 1968,24 in 1979,32 in 1980, in 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format. Some conferences, such as the Southeastern Conference, were racially segregated, from its onset and at least into the mid-1950s, the NIT was regarded as the most prestigious showcase for college basketball. The winner of the National Invitation Tournament was regarded as more of a national champion than the actual, titular, national champion, several teams played in both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year, beginning with Colorado and Duquesne in 1940. Colorado won the NIT in 1940 but subsequently finished fourth in the NCAA West Region, in 1949, some Kentucky players were bribed by gamblers to lose their first round game in the NIT. This same Kentucky team went on to win the NCAA, the champions of both the NCAA and NIT tournaments played each other for a few years during World War II. From 1943 to 1945, the American Red Cross sponsored a charity game between each years tournament champions to raise money for the war effort. The series was described by Ray Meyer as not just benefit games, the NCAA champion prevailed in all three games. The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively selected the NIT champion as its champion for 1938. In 1943 the NCAA tournament moved to share Madison Square Garden with the NIT in an effort to increase the credibility of the NCAA Tournament. In 1945, The New York Times indicated that many teams could get bids to enter either tournament, the team played in the NIT instead, which it won
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Leonard Hamilton
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James Leonard Hamilton is an American basketball coach and the current mens basketball head coach at Florida State University. He is a head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami. In his 23 years as a head coach, his teams have qualified for seven NCAA tournaments and eight NITs. While with the NBAs Wizards his team posted a 19–63 record during his season with the franchise in 2000–01. Hamilton played college basketball at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Hamilton is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. His brother, Ray Jones, coaches a minor league team, Hamilton was an assistant coach and associate head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1974 to 1986 under then head coach Joe B. Hall. Hamilton was on the staffs of the Kentucky teams that finished as the NCAA runner up in 1975, won the 1978 NCAA Championship, Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year on March 10,2009, and a second time in 2012. Hamilton is the first coach to be named coach of the year in both the Big East and ACC, Florida State profile Basketball-Reference. com, Leonard Hamilton
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1998 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 1998 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12,1998, and ended with the game on March 30 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. A total of 63 games were played, Kentucky won the national title, its second in three seasons and seventh overall, by defeating Utah 78-69 in the championship game. Jeff Sheppard of Kentucky was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player and this was Kentuckys third straight championship game appearance. Bryce Drew led the 13th-ranked Valparaiso Crusaders to the Sweet Sixteen, including a memorable play that remains part of March Madness lore
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1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 1999 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11,1999, and ended with the game on March 29 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. A total of 63 games were played and this years Final Four was the first—and so far, only—to be held in a baseball-specific facility, as Tropicana Field is home to the Tampa Bay Rays. Duke nonetheless tied the record for most games won during a season, with 37. The 2007–08 Memphis team actually broke this record first, but the team was forced to forfeit their entire season due to eligibility issues surrounding the team. Funny that Dukes season was not vacated by the NCAA for having a player on their team during this year. That mystery will never be solved, all everyone needs to know is that Duke could write their players a check before every game on national television and they would still go unpunished. Richard Rip Hamilton of Connecticut was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player and this was a significant victory for the program, as it cemented Connecticuts reputation as a true basketball power after decades of barely missing the Final Four. Also, the Huskies were the last mens national champion to date that did not play football at the now known as the Football Bowl Subdivision at the time of their title. This tournament is also notable as the coming-out party for Gonzaga as a rising mid-major power. Gonzaga has made every NCAA tournament since then, and is now considered to be a high-major program despite its mid-major conference affiliation. Due to violations committed by Ohio State head coach Jim OBrien, the mark would once again be raised to 38 wins after Kentuckys dominant title run in 2012. This is bullshit however, because Duke competed with a player for the entire 1998-1999 season. The NCAA decided to give Duke and Coach K a rim job and let them off the hook, in fact, Connecticut had spent more weeks as the number 1 team in the country, according to the AP Top 25 Poll, than had Duke. The previous record was held by Villanova, who defeated Georgetown as 9-point underdogs in 1985, the 1999 Final Four would be the last time Tropicana Field would host NCAA tournament games. For Duke, they had 2 straight promising seasons end on the Tropicana Field floor, with a 86-84 loss to Kentucky in the 1998 South Regional final, and then the 1999 National Championship game
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2000 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2000 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16,2000, and ended with the game on April 3 in Indianapolis. A total of 63 games were played, due to a string of upsets throughout the tournament, only one top-four seed advanced to the Final Four. That was Michigan State, who finished the season as the #1 team in the nation and was given the top seed in the Midwest Region, the highest seeded of the other three Final Four teams was Florida, who won the East Region as the fifth seed. Two eight-seeds made the Final Four, with Wisconsin and North Carolina rounding the bracket out, Wisconsin won the West Region while North Carolina won the South Region, with both regions seeing their top three seeds eliminated during the first weekend of play. Michigan State won their first national championship since 1979 by defeating Florida 89-76 in the final game, Mateen Cleaves of Michigan State was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player, while Morris Peterson was its leading scorer. Despite the string of upsets, no seed lower than 11 won a game in the tournament. The only 11 seed to win was Pepperdine, which defeated Indiana in the East Regions first round in what turned out to be Bob Knights last game coaching the Hoosiers before his firing that offseason. Also, two teams qualified as 10 seeds advanced to the Sweet Sixteen as Seton Hall in the East. Because of the upsets, the Elite Eight consisted of one top seed, one seed, one third seed, one fifth seed, one sixth seed, one seventh seed. However, the number one seed left in the tournament opened the second half with a 13-2 run. After the run, Michigan State coasted home against Wisconsins limited offense, however, the Florida Gators answered back with a 9-0 run to give them the lead for good. The Gators held the Tar Heels to just six points over a 9½ minute span to put them in great shape, foul trouble ultimately doomed the Tar Heels, and the Gators advanced to their first ever National Championship game. April 3,2000 Michigan State 89, Florida 76 Michigan State senior Mateen Cleaves limped his way to the Most Outstanding Player of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Cleaves sprained his ankle with 16,18 to play in the 2nd half, Cleaves returned about four minutes later, and immediately helped lead the Spartans on a 16-6 run to put the game out of reach. The lone top-seed remaining would bring order to a tournament filled with upsets as they salted away the victory for the schools second National Championship, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo earned his first title, from his second straight final four appearance. Morris Peterson led the Spartans with 21 points, CBS Sports had exclusive TV coverage. They were carried on a basis until the Elite Eight
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2002 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2002 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12,2002, and ended with the game on April 1 in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome. A total of 64 games were played and this was the first year that the tournament used the so-called pod system, in which the eight first- and second-round sites are distributed around the four regionals. Teams were assigned to first round spots in order to travel for as many teams as possible. Maryland defeated Indiana 64-52 in the game to win their first ever national championship. Juan Dixon of Maryland was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player, for the second straight tournament, the Elite Eight featured at least one double-digit seed. South Region tenth-seed Kent State and West Region twelfth-seed Missouri played in their regional finals, with Kent State losing to Indiana. This also marked the first time since 1987 that no team from the states of North Carolina nor Kentucky reached the Final Four, louis, Missouri University Arena, Albuquerque, New Mexico March 15 and 17 American Airlines Center, Dallas MCI Center, Washington, D. C. This time they would take advantage of their trip, after falling behind 13-2 to the Kansas Jayhawks to begin the game, Maryland stormed to a 44-37 lead at halftime. They expanded their lead to 20, 83-63, with 6,11 left in the game, roy Williams Kansas squad did not quit and closed the gap to 4 with under a minute remaining, but the Terps survived to advance to the championship, 97-88. Maryland senior Juan Dixon led the contest in scoring with 33, Indiana 73, Oklahoma 64 Mike Daviss Indiana Hoosiers continued their Cinderella ride in the NCAA Tournament by defeating another higher ranked team, the Oklahoma Sooners. Oklahoma led most of the first half, and took a 34-30 lead into halftime, however, with the score 60-60 late in the 2nd half Indiana broke ahead for good with an easy bucket from Jeff Newton, who led the Hoosiers with 19 points. The Hoosiers outscored the Sooners by 13 in the 2nd half, Oklahoma was coached by Kelvin Sampson, who later in his career would succeed Davis as IU head coach. April 1,2002 Maryland 64, Indiana 52 The Maryland Terrapins completed the task they set out to do one year earlier by defeating the Indiana Hoosiers 64-52. Maryland led virtually the entire game except for a point with 9,52 left in the basketball game when Indiana took a 44-42 lead. Maryland answered the Hoosier run and ended the game with a 22-8 run to bring home the schools first, senior Juan Dixon was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player. ESPN broadcast the game, then turned coverage over to CBS Sports for the remaining 63 games. They were carried on a basis until the Elite Eight
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Frank Haith
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Frank James Haith, Jr. is the mens basketball head coach for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Haith had previously been the coach at the University of Miami. Frank Haith was born in Queens, New York to Frank Haith, Sr. at the age of five, Haith was sent with his older sister to Burlington, North Carolina, where they were raised by their grandmother, Ethel Mae Haith. They were joined by their three remaining siblings six years later when their mother died of a heart attack. Prior to his job at Miami, Haith had been an assistant coach for 15 years at such programs as Texas, Texas A&M, UNCW, Penn State, Wake Forest, and Elon University. Haith was hired on April 11,2004 and tasked with leading the Hurricanes into the Atlantic Coast Conference. In his first season, Haith took a team that was coming off two losing seasons and picked to finish last in the ACC and guided it to the postseason for the first time since 2002. As a result, Haith was a finalist for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Award, Haith again took Miami to the NIT in 2005, and the Hurricanes won their first two games before bowing out in a heartbreaking loss to the Michigan Wolverines. It was just the time in Miamis basketball history that the Hurricanes had won back-to-back postseason games. Haith reached just one NCAA Tournament as the coach at Miami. The next season, Haiths team returned four starters, including sharpshooter Jack McClinton, Miami began the season ranked 16th in the USA Today/ESPN pre-season poll, and the media picked it to finish fourth in the ACC. However, Miami finished below.500 in conference play and missed the NCAA Tournament, the following season, Haiths team finished in last place in the ACC. Haith has also led the Hurricanes to success off-the-court, under Haiths tenure, all 8 Miami senior basketball players who have completed their eligibility have earned their degrees. Miami also placed three players on the ACC All-Academic basketball team for the 2004–2005 season, more than any school in the conference, an investigation in the Nevin Shapiro scandal at Miamis football program also uncovered impropriety in the mens basketball program. After 2-1/2 years of investigation, on October 22,2013 the NCAA handed Haith, who had by that point left for Missouri, on April 4,2011, Haith accepted the head coaching job at the University of Missouri. In his first year at Missouri, Haith inherited a team that a year before went 23–11 and lost in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. From that team, only nine players returned for Haiths first year, leaving him with a short bench, the loss of both Bowers and Green left Haith with only two post players and just seven total scholarship players for his first season at Mizzou. To make up for this deficiency, Haith and his staff put into place a system to attempt to take advantage of the speed, passing
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2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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It began on March 18,2008, and concluded on April 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. For the first time since seeding began, all four of the top seeds advanced to the Final Four. Memphis and Kansas advanced to the championship game, with Memphiss victory in the semifinals giving them a record-setting 38 for the season. Kansas, however, spoiled their national championship hopes by handing the Tigers their second loss of the season, winning the game in overtime, Memphiss entire season was later vacated by the NCAA due to eligibility concerns surrounding freshman guard Derrick Rose. Entering the tournament on March 18, the top ranked team was North Carolina in both the AP Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Polls, followed by Memphis, UCLA and Kansas. American University, UMBC, Texas-Arlington, and Portland State all entered the tournament for the first time in their schools history, another school, Coppin State won the MEAC Tournament to become the first 20-loss school ever to make the field. Georgia, a team that otherwise would not have advanced to the tournament, won the SEC tournament to qualify, and were awarded a #14 seed, whereas the 2007 tournament did not see many upsets, the 2008 tournament was full of them. The sub-regional pod played at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, #5 seeds Drake and Clemson fell to #12 seeds Western Kentucky and Villanova while the #4 seeds in that same pod, Vanderbilt and Connecticut, were defeated by #13 seeds Siena and San Diego. Western Kentucky advanced to the West regional in Phoenix where they lost to UCLA while Villanova was one of two double digit seeds to advance to the Midwest regional. The other was #10 seed Davidson, who rode the hot shooting of Stephen Curry to defeat Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin before nearly upsetting Kansas in the regional final. The Midwest region alone saw four of its double digit seeds advance, as in addition to Villanova, Siena, the total tournament attendance of 763,607 set a record for highest total tournament attendance, breaking the record set during the 1999 tournament. The NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship is an annual tournament featuring 65 teams representing all Division I Conferences in the nation. A play-in game determined which of the two lowest seeds would play in the first round of 64 against a top seed team. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65 within four regionals of 16 teams, Mount St. Marys, as the winner of the play-in game, between 2004 and 2006, the regionals were named for their host cities. April 5 and 7 Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas A total of 31 teams received bids for winning their conference tournament championship. Since the Ivy League does not hold a tournament, its regular season received the automatic bid. This left 34 at-large bids to be decided from the rest of the field by the NCAA Selection Committee, the at-large bids, along with the seeding for each team in the tournament, were announced on Sunday, March 16. Coppin State was the first team to make the tournament with 20 losses, maryland-Baltimore County, American, Texas-Arlington, and Portland State all received their first tournament bids in school history
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2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2013 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament that involved 68 teams playing to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 19,2013, and concluded with the game on April 8,2013. This was the 75th edition of the NCAA Mens Basketball Championship, selection Sunday, when CBS announced the participants and tournament brackets, occurred on March 17,2013. By winning the West Region, Wichita State became the first #9 seed, the last #9 seed to reach the Final Four was Penn, and the last MVC team to do so was Indiana State, both in 1979. Louisville defeated Michigan in the game by a final score of 82-76. The tournament featured several notable upsets, the Eagles were given the #15 seed in the South Region and defeated Georgetown in the round of 64. They followed that up by defeating #7 seed San Diego State in the round of 32, Florida Gulf Coast was defeated in their next game by Florida. Florida Gulf Coasts run was not the only upset of the tournament, for the first time since 2010, a #14 seed won as Harvard defeated New Mexico in the West Region. The same region saw #13 La Salle, who won in the round, defeat #4 Kansas State. In addition to that, the top seed, Gonzaga, was defeated in the round of 32 by eventual region winner Wichita State. The Pac-12 saw two of its schools qualify as #12 seeds and both won, in the Midwest Region, Oregon advanced to the Sweet Sixteen by defeating #5 seed Oklahoma State and #4 Saint Louis. California, who was placed in the East Region, knocked off #5 UNLV before falling to eventual region winner Syracuse, by contrast #6 seed Pac-12 team UCLA was upset by #11 seed Minnesota in their opening round matchup. With their loss to Florida Gulf Coast, Georgetown has lost to a seed in their last five NCAA tournament appearances. A notable absence from the tournament was Connecticut, who won twenty games in 2012-13, two other teams also earned their first ever NCAA Tournament victory, Ivy League champion Harvard and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champion North Carolina A&T. Liberty became the first 20-loss team in five years to earn an NCAA bid, having finished its season with five wins to secure the Big South championship. For the first time since 1977, the 10-member basketball selection committee did not choose a single NCAA team from the state of Texas for the tournament, for the first time since 1994, no team from Utah was selected for the tournament. For the first time since the 1987 Final Four, the Final Four did not feature any of the 5 teams with the most Final Four appearances, UCLA, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, or Kentucky. C. J. Louisville was selected as the top seed
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2016 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2016 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. The 78th edition of the tournament began on March 15,2016, upsets were the story of the first round of the Tournament, No. 2–seed Michigan State in the biggest upset, just the eighth win for a No. At least one 9,10,11,12,13,14, and 15 seed won a game for the third time ever. Also, every seed except a 16 won at least one game in the first round, in the Final Four, Villanova defeated Oklahoma, while North Carolina defeated Syracuse. Villanova then defeated North Carolina to win the championship on a three-point buzzer beater by Kris Jenkins, pundits called the game one of the best in Tournament history, going on to say this was one of the most competitive finals ever. Previously, the Round of 64 was known as the Second Round since the 2011 edition, the First Four was previously named the First Round. Louis, Missouri, Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington, Regional Semifinals and Finals March 24 and 26 South Regional, KFC Yum. Yale made its first NCAA appearance since 1962 as winners of the Ivy League, of those that do hold a tournament, Horizon League champion Green Bay made its first appearance since 1996 and Oregon State made its first appearance since 1990. Yale also earned its first Tournament win in history with a 79–75 win over Baylor. Hawaii likewise earned its first NCAA Tournament win by defeating California 77–66, little Rock won its first Tournament game in 30 years and Middle Tennessee won its first tournament game in 27 years. In the Midwest Region, No.15 seed Middle Tennessee upset No.2 seed Michigan State for just the eighth win for a No.15 seed over a No.2. More than one-third of ESPN Tournament Challenge brackets predicted Michigan State to make the Final Four. In the East Region, No.14 seed Stephen F. Austin upset No.3 seed West Virginia, by winning the Midwest Regional final, Syracuse became the first No.10 seed in history to advance to the Final Four. However, three lower seeds, all No,11, have advanced to that stage. Kansas extended its streak of consecutive tournament appearances to 27 in a row and this tied the record for most consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances held by North Carolina. This Tournament was the first championship for Villanova in 31 years and it was also the first championship by a school without a Division I FBS football team since Connecticut in 1999. Villanova fields a Division I FCS football team, as did UConn before 2002, out of 336 eligible Division I teams,68 participate in the tournament
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2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The championship game was the first to be contested in a Western state since 1995 when Seattle, Washington, was the host of the Final Four for that year. A total of 68 teams entered the 2017 tournament, with all 32 conference tournament winners receiving an automatic bid, the Ivy League, which previously granted its automatic tournament bid to its regular season champion, hosted a postseason tournament to determine a conference champion for the first time. In previous years, had the Ivy League had two schools tied for first in the standings, a one-game playoff determined the automatic bid. On March 10,2016, the Ivy Leagues council of presidents approved a four-team tournament where the top four teams in the season would play on March 11 and 12 at Philadelphias Palestra. The remaining 36 teams received at-large bids which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. On January 24,2016, the NCAA announced that the Selection Committee would, for the first time, eight teams—the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams—played in the First Four. The winners of these advanced to the main draw of the tournament. The Selection Committee also seeded the entire field from 1 to 68, hawaii had previously been banned from entering the tournament as a penalty for infractions, but the NCAA later reversed its ban. The following 32 teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2017 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conferences automatic bid. The Record column includes wins in the First Four for the Big 12, Big West, NEC, the MEAC and Southland each had one representative, both eliminated in the First Four with a record of 0–1. CBS Sports and Turner Sports have joint U. S. television broadcast rights to the Tournament under the NCAA March Madness brand. Since 2016, rights to the Final Four and championship game alternate between Turner in even-numbered years and CBS in odd-numbered years, meaning that both rounds will air on CBS in 2017. Following criticism of the format of the 2016 edition, the Selection Sunday broadcast was shortened to 90 minutes. CBS Sports executive Harold Bryant promised that the unveiling of the bracket would be conducted in an efficient manner, and leave more time to discuss and preview the tournament
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2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The 2018 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament will involve 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of mens NCAA Division I college basketball. It is scheduled to begin on March 13,2018 and will conclude with the game on April 2 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Pending any changes to the current format, a total of 68 teams will enter the 2018 tournament,32 automatic bids shall be awarded to each program that wins their conferences tournament. The remaining 36 bids are at-large, with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee, eight teams-the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams-will play in the First Four. The winners of these games advance to the draw of the tournament. The Selection Committee will also seed the field from 1 to 68. com Tournament 2018 Womens National Invitation Tournament NCAA Mens Basketball Division I
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Rick Barry
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Richard Francis Dennis Rick Barry III is an American retired professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association. Named one of the 50 Greatest Players in history by the NBA in 1996, Barry is the player to lead the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He was known for his unorthodox but effective underhand free throw shooting technique, in 1987, Barry was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He is the father of former NBA players Brent Barry and Jon Barry, Barry grew up in Roselle Park, New Jersey, graduating from Roselle Park High School in 1962. Barry was an All-American basketball player for the University of Miami, while at Miami, Barry met his wife Pamela, the daughter of Hurricanes head coach Bruce Hale. As a senior in the 1964–65 campaign, Barry led the NCAA with a 37.4 points-per-game average, Barry and the Hurricanes did not take part in the NCAA Tournament, however, because the basketball program was on probation at the time. Barry is one of just two players to have his number retired by the school. Barry was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors with the pick of the 1965 NBA draft. In Barrys first season in the NBA with the Warriors, the team improved from 17 to 35 victories and that 76ers team is considered to be one of the greatest in basketball history.7 points and 10.6 rebounds per game in the 1965–66 season. Teamed with star center Nate Thurmond in San Francisco, Barry helped take the Warriors to the 1967 NBA Finals, including a 55-point outburst in Game 3, Barry averaged 40.8 points per game in the series, an NBA Finals record that stood for three decades. The courts ordered Barry to sit out the 1967–68 season before he starred in the ABA, the ensuing negative publicity cast Barry in a negative light, portraying him as selfish and money-hungry. However, many NBA players at the time were looking at jumping to the ABA for more lucrative contracts, Barry would star in the ABA, twice averaging more than 30 points per game. After the 1966–67 season, Barry became one of the first NBA players to jump to the American Basketball Association when he signed with the Oakland Oaks, in the ABAs first season, the Oaks were the only ABA team located in the same market as an NBA team. The Warriors went to court and prevented Barry from playing for the Oaks during the 1967–68 season, Barry instead worked on Oaks radio broadcasts during the ABAs first season. During the 1968–69 season Barry suited up for the Oaks and averaged 34 points per game and he also led the ABA in free throw percentage for the season. However, on December 27,1968, late in a game against the New York Nets, Barry and Kenny Wilburn collided and Barry tore ligaments in his knee. He tried to again in January but only aggravated the injury and sat out the rest of the season. Despite the injury Barry was named to the ABA All-Star team, the Oaks finished with a record of 60-18, winning the Western Division by 14 games over the second place New Orleans Buccaneers
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Jack McClinton
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Jack Paul McClinton is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League. McClinton played shooting guard for the University of Miami Hurricanes mens basketball team and he was selected in the second round by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2009 NBA Draft. After being waived by the Spurs, he played for Aliağa Petkim, Gilboa Galil, BC Budivelnik, after graduating from high school, McClinton received a few scholarship offers for basketball, and decided to attend Siena College, a small college in New York. He transferred out of Siena as his coach, Rob Lanier, was fired at the end of the season, for the 2008–09 Atlantic Coast Conference mens basketball season, McClinton joined Tyler Hansbrough as the only players to repeat First-Team All-ACC Honors. He finished as the leading scorer in the ACC, averaging 19.4 points per game. After McClinton was waived by the San Antonio Spurs he signed with Aliağa Petkim in the Turkish Basketball League, halfway through the season he was averaging 16.1 points on 40. 4% shooting and 34. 1% from 3-point range in 30.7 minutes per game. He shot his free throws at an accuracy of 85. 7% and his highest scoring game of the season took place on December 23,2009, when he made 8 three-pointers on his way to 33 points. McClinton played in Israel with Gilboa Galil during the 2010–2011 season, in August 2011, McClinton signed with BC Budivelnik of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. In November 2012 he was selected in the 1st round of the NBAs D-League draft by the Erie BayHawks, on December 27,2012, McClinton was traded to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants. In February 2013, he was waived by the Mad Ants and he did not appear in a game for them. McClinton together with Carlos Boozer co-founded a mens swimwear company, Loaded Dock, NBA D-League Profile Israeli League profile Ukrainian League profile
