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Washington State University
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Washington State University is a public research university located in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the northwest United States. It is ranked in the top 140 universities in America with high research activity, with an undergraduate enrollment of 24,470 and a total enrollment of 29,686, it is the second largest institution of higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington. The university also operates campuses across Washington known as WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities, in 2012, WSU launched an Internet-based Global Campus, which includes its online degree program, WSU Online. These campuses award primarily bachelors and masters degrees, freshmen and sophomores were first admitted to the Vancouver campus in 2006 and to the Tri-Cities campus in 2007. Total enrollment for the four campuses and WSU Online exceeds 29,686 students, WSUs athletic teams are called the Cougars and the school colors are crimson and gray. Six mens and nine womens varsity teams compete in NCAA Division I in the Pac-12 Conference, both mens and womens indoor track teams compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Washington State College was established by the Washington Legislature on March 28,1890, the institution was one of the land-grant colleges created under the 1862 federal Morrill Act signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. The federal land grants for the new institution included 90,000 acres of land for an agricultural college and 100,000 acres for a school of science. After an extended search for a location, the states new land-grant college opened in Pullman on January 13,1892, the year 1897 saw the first graduating class of seven men and women. The school changed its name from Washington Agricultural College and School of Science to State College of Washington in 1905, the name was changed by the state legislature to Washington State University 58 years ago in 1959. Prior to Bryans arrival, the university suffered through significant organizational instability. Bryan guided WSU toward respectability and is arguably the most influential figure in the history of the university, the landmark clock tower in the center of campus is his namesake. WSUs role as an institution became clear in 1894 with the launch of its first Agricultural Experiment Station west of the Cascade Mountains near Puyallup. WSU has subsequently established extension offices and research centers in all regions of the state, with research facilities in Prosser, Mount Vernon. In 1989, WSU officially gained branch campuses in Spokane, the Tri-Cities, overall, the Federal Government and the State of Washington have entrusted 190,000 acres of land to WSU for agricultural and scientific research throughout the Pacific Northwest. The veterinary school was elevated to status in 1916, becoming the College of Veterinary Medicine in 1925. Graduate education began in the years and, in 1902, the first masters degree was conferred. In 1917, the institution was organized into five colleges and four schools, in 1922 a Graduate School was created
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Ernie Kent
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Ernest Ernie Kent is an American college basketball coach. He is the mens basketball coach at Washington State University. He is the head mens basketball coach at the University of Oregon. Kent was previously an assistant at Stanford University and also coached abroad in Saudi Arabia, Kent was a college basketball commentator with the Pac-12 Network. Kent played for the Oregon Ducks from 1973 to 1977 under head coach Dick Harter, nicknamed Million Moves, he was a part of the Kamikaze Kids, known for constant hustle and extremely aggressive play in their attempts to win ball games. Knee injuries ended his collegiate career, Kent played high school basketball for West High School in Rockford, Illinois. Between 1980 and 1987, Ernie Kent spent his days in Saudi Arabia coaching basketball for the Al-Khaleej Club. Kent and his wife were immersed in Arab culture, living in a Shiite Muslim village for their first two years, also working for the Arabian American Oil Company in Dhahran and he recalls learning how to be patient, since a translator was required for communication with his team. It was a period of his life and taught him how to deal with extreme pressure. After returning to the United States from Saudi Arabia, he became an assistant coach at Colorado State University and he later went on to become the head coach at Saint Marys College of California where he remained for six years. While at Saint Marys, Kents coaching relationship with the players changed drastically and his players told Kent that they could not relate to him due to his militaristic style. From that moment on, Kent reversed his stance and became more compassionate toward his players. He took his players every season to go to a retreat, where his players bonded with each other, strengthening the cohesiveness of the team. Under Kent, the Ducks reached the NCAA tournament five times, in 2000,2002,2003,2007 and 2008 and he also led the Ducks to the National Invitation Tournament Final Four in 1999 and 2004. In the 2002 season, Kent led the team to its first conference title since 1939 despite the Pacific-10 Conference sending a record of six teams into the NCAA tournament, under Kent, Oregon was known for playing an up-tempo pace and guard-heavy lineups. As head coach, Kent was known for his ability, bringing in a class of highly regarded recruits in 2004 such as Maarty Leunen, Bryce Taylor, Chamberlain Oguchi. He was highly criticized for failing to sign two of the highest profile recruits to come from the state of Oregon for the class of 2007, Kyle Singler, the following year, he signed the #21 recruiting class. During his tenure, he had four players drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft in Fred Jones, Luke Ridnour, but after the season, the schools athletic director at the time, Bill Moos, issued a statement affirming his support for Kent
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Pac-12 Conference
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The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States. It participates in 22 NCAA sports in the NCAAs Division I, its teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The conferences 12 members are located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah and they include each states flagship public university, four additional public universities, and two private research universities. It became the Pac-12 in 2011 with the addition of the University of Colorado, with Arizona States softball title in 2011, the conference won its 400th NCAA Championship. The current commissioner of the conference is Larry Scott, Scott replaced Thomas C, hansen, who retired in July 2009 after 26 years in that position. Prior to joining the Pac-10, Scott was Chairman and CEO of the Womens Tennis Association, the Pac-12 has twelve full member institutions. Football currently is the sport where the conference is divided evenly into two geographic divisions, the North Division and the South Division. The Pac-12 spans six states in the Western United States, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Unusual for a conference, the Pac-12s members are spread evenly between 3 regions, with 4 schools each in California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Four Corners region. The Pac-12 has four affiliate member institutions, three in California and Boise State University in Idaho, the school will maintain its Pac-12 affiliation in wrestling, which the WAC does not sponsor. No school has left the Pac-12 since its founding as the AAWU in 1959, two members of the PCC were not invited to join the AAWU or its successors. As private schools, Stanford and USC are not obligated to publish employees salaries, Eight of the twelve member schools are members of the Association of American Universities, including all of the conferences California schools. The only FBS conference with more AAU members is the Big Ten with 13 out of 14 member institutions having AAU membership, in 2014, of the twelve member schools, nine were ranked in the top 100 universities in the world. Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights/licensing, student fees, school funds and all sources including TV income, camp income, food. Updated to show institutional reporting to the Department of Education as shown on the DOE Equity in Athletics website for the 2013-14 academic year, the national ranking of revenue is based on 2075 institutions reporting to the Department of Education that year. The roots of the Pac-12 Conference go back to December 2,1915, charter members were the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College. The conference began play in 1916, one year later, Washington State College joined the league, followed by Stanford University in 1918. In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission of USC, Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of UCLA
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Pullman, Washington
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Pullman is the largest city in Whitman County, located in southeastern Washington state within the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. The population was 29,799 at the 2010 census, estimated to have reached 31,682 in 2014, originally incorporated as Three Forks, the city was later renamed after industrialist George Pullman. Pullman is noted as a fertile agricultural area known for its many miles of rolling hills. It is best known as the home to Washington State University, Pullman is located eight miles from Moscow, Idaho, home to the University of Idaho, and is served by the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport. In 2011 Bloomberg Businessweek selected Pullman as the Best Place to Raise Kids in Washington, factors included affordability, safety, a family-friendly lifestyle, the quality of Pullman High School, the presence of Washington State University, and the natural beauty of the area. Within the year, Dan McKenzie and William Ellsworth arrived to stake claims for adjoining land and they named the first post office located here as Three Forks. In the spring of 1881, Orville Stewart opened a general store, Pullman was incorporated 131 years ago in 1886 with a population of about 200 people. It was originally named Three Forks, after the three rivers that converge there, Missouri Flat Creek, Dry Fork, and the South Fork of the Palouse River. In 1884, Dan McKenzie and Charles Moore replatted the site, on March 28,1890, the Washington State Legislature established the states land grant college, but did not designate a location. Pullman leaders were determined to secure the new college and offered 160 acres of land for its campus, Idaho Territory had established its land grant college in 1889, the University of Idaho was to be located in neighboring Moscow. On April 18,1891, the site selection commission appointed by Washingtons governor chose Pullman, on January 13,1892, the institution opened with 59 students under the name Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. It was renamed the State College of Washington in 1905, more known as Washington State College. In 1961, Pullman became a code city under the Mayor-Council form of government. The city has a mayor with an elected seven-member council and an appointed administrative officer. The WSU campus is located on College Hill, and part of the area is a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic character of College Hill is manifest in its many early-twentieth century craftsman-style bungalows, see Red Brick Roads of Pullman, Washington. Companies associated with an expanding high-tech industry are located at the end of the city. The lab company was founded by Edmund Schweitzer, a Ph. D. graduate of WSU, SEL and other firms are located within the 107-acre Pullman Industrial Park, run by the Port of Whitman County
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Washington State Cougars
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The Washington State Cougars are the athletic teams at Washington State University, the term applies to any of the schools varsity teams. Washington State University is a member of the Pac-12 Conference, which participates in the NCAA Division I, the school also offers various intramural sports. Washington State University is a member of the Pac-12 athletic conference, the schools mascot is Butch T. Cougar and the schools colors are crimson and gray. Varsity athletics include, WSU formerly had varsity programs in boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, in 1937, boxers Roy Petragallo and Ed McKinnon won individual titles and the Cougar team, under coach Ike Deeter, won the NCAA boxing championship, WSUs first national championship. Collegiate boxing fell from favor in the 1950s and the Cougar program was dropped 57 years ago in May 1960, the WSU wrestling program was discontinued 31 years ago, after the 1986 season, and womens gymnastics the following year. Mens gymnastics was cut earlier, after the 1980 season, rifle in 1987, other former programs include mens swimming and skiing. The mens track and field won the NCAA indoor national championship in 1977. During the 2001-2003 seasons, the Cougar football teams were distinguished by three seasons, three top ten poll rankings, and appearances in the Sun Bowl, Rose Bowl and Holiday Bowl. The Cougars shared the Pac-10 title in 2002, paul Wulff, WSUs 31st head football coach, was fired on Tuesday, November 29,2011 after completing his fourth season with a 9-40 overall record. Former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach has been hired to take over the Cougars football program after Wulffs departure, in the late-1970s when George Raveling was head coach, the Cougars were among the Pac-10 Conferences top teams. Before becoming WSU head coach in 2005, Tony Bennett spent three seasons at WSU as an assistant to his father, Dick Bennett. In both the 2006–2007 and 2007–2008 seasons, his Cougar teams had 26 wins each, tying the Washington State school record set by the 1940–41 team. Ken Bone was tapped as the Cougars head coach on April 6,2009, following a 10-21 season, Bone was fired as head coach on March 18,2014. He had two years of his guaranteed seven-year contract remaining, Washington State has won 2 NCAA team national championships. As the two public universities in the state, WSU and UW have a geographic rivalry. Rivalries also exist between WSU and the other Pac-12 teams of the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers. Competition between the schools in football has been competitive over the years, as the Cougars hold a 47-44-3 advantage in the series against OSU. WSU’s closest geographic rival is the University of Idaho, another land-grant school only eight miles east in Moscow, the Battle of the Palouse, the annual football game, was revived in 1998 for a 10-year run, and is usually held at Martin Stadium in Pullman
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NCAA Division I
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Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. This level was called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower level College Division. For football only, Division I was further subdivided in 1978 into Division I-A, Division I-AA, in 2006, Division I-A and I-AA were renamed Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision, respectively. FCS teams are allowed to award scholarships, a practice technically allowed. FBS teams also have to meet attendance requirements, while FCS teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Another difference is post season play, starting with the 2014 postseason, a four-team playoff called the College Football Playoff, replaced the previous one game championship format. Even so, Division I FBS football is still the only NCAA sport in which a champion is not determined by an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, Several other NCAA sanctioned minimums and differences that distinguish Division I from Divisions II and III. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well, there are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. Mens and womens teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams, for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. The NCAA has limits on the financial aid each Division I member may award in each sport that the school sponsors. Equivalency sports, in which the NCAA limits the total financial aid that a school can offer in a sport to the equivalent of a set number of full scholarships. Roster limitations may or may not apply, depending on the sport, the term counter is also key to this concept. The NCAA defines a counter as an individual who is receiving financial aid that is countable against the aid limitations in a sport. The number of scholarships that Division I members may award in sport is listed below. In this table, scholarship numbers for head-count sports are indicated without a point, for equivalency sports, they are listed with a decimal point. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport, participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football
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Pacific Coast Conference
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The Pacific Coast Conference was a college athletic conference in the United States which existed from 1915 to 1959. The name Pacific Coast Conference is now used by a San Diego area community college established in 1982. Established on December 2,1915, its four members were the University of California, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon. Among other complaints, he disdained the quality of education in the Oregon schools, pauley felt that University of California campuses deserved to play against colleges with comparably high academic standards. The PCC had a commissioner, an elaborate constitution, a formal code of conduct. Following the submission of his report, Atherton was promptly hired as commissioner in 1940, the conference was wracked by scandal in 1951. Charges were made and confirmed that University of Oregon football coach Jim Aiken had violated the code for financial aid. After Aiken was compelled to resign, Oregon urged the PCC to look at similar abuses by UCLA football coach Red Sanders, the conference spent five years attempting to reform itself. In 1956, the scandal became public, the scandal first broke in Washington, when in January 1956, several discontented players staged a mutiny against their coach, John Cherberg. After the coach was fired, the PCC followed up on charges of a slush fund, the PCC found evidence of the prohibited activities of the Greater Washington Advertising Fund run by Roscoe C. Torchy Torrance, and in May imposed sanctions, in March, allegations of prohibited payments made by two booster clubs associated with UCLA, the Bruin Bench and the Young Mens Club of Westwood, were published in Los Angeles newspapers. UCLA refused for ten weeks to allow PCC officials to proceed in their investigation and this same alumnus also blew the whistle on Cals phony work program for athletes known as the San Francisco Gridiron Club, with an extension in the Los Angeles area known as the South Seas Fund. The first major reaction came from the University of California system, for Sproul the PCC dispute was not just about athletics, at stake was the ideal of a unified University of California that enjoyed statewide support. This ideal collided with aspirations of UCLA alumni who believed that Sprouls vision would always favor the Berkeley campus at the expense of the younger UCLA campus. Oregon State College president August Leroy Strand wrote, The reasons for California and UCLA dropping out are as different as night, the significance of the whole affair was the union of Berkeley and UCLA. Admissions and scholarship had nothing to do with the withdrawals, the PCC was falling apart, leading to the decision to dissolve after the 1958-59 season. Soon after the PCC was dissolved, five of its nine members created the Athletic Association of Western Universities for the 1959 season, after initially being blocked from admission, three of the four remaining schools would eventually join, but members were not required to play other members. Tensions were high between UCLA and Stanford, as Stanford had voted for UCLAs expulsion from the PCC, Idaho was not involved in the scandals but had become noncompetitive in the PCC
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Arizona Wildcats men's basketball
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The Arizona Wildcats mens basketball team is the intercollegiate mens basketball program representing the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. They compete in the Pac-12 Conference of NCAA Division I and are coached by Sean Miller. Arizona has a long and rich basketball history, the program came to national prominence under the tutelage of former head coach Lute Olson, who established the program as among Americas elite in college basketball. From 1985 to 2009, the Arizona basketball team reached the NCAA Division I Tournament for 25 consecutive years, despite having their 1999 and 2008 appearances later vacated by the NCAA, the media still cites Arizonas streak, and simply notes the changes. The Wildcats have reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament on four occasions and they have also made two appearances in the National Championship. In Pac-10 play, former head coach Lute Olson currently holds the record for most wins as a Pac-10 coach with 327, in addition, the team has won 15 Pac-10/12 regular season titles and six Pac-10/12 tournament championships. Arizona also holds the distinction of recording five out of the seven 17–1 Pac-10 seasons, No team has gone undefeated since the formation of the Pac-10/12. Arizona ranks 16th all time heading into the 2016–17 season with 1,737 wins, the University of Arizona fielded its first mens basketball team in 1904–05. Orin Albert Kates coached the team and drew opponents from local YMCAs, the first game Arizona played ended in a 40–32 victory over the Morenci YMCA. McKale took things to a new level, posting a 9–0 record his first season as a basketball coach, moreover, McKale elevated the program to intercollegiate play. The McKale Memorial Center, the arena for Arizona basketball, is named in his honor. From 1925 to 1961, the program was under the stewardship of Fred Enke, Coach Fred A. Enke was responsible for the early successes of Wildcat basketball. Enke amassed 509 wins in his tenure on the UA sidelines and still ranks as the second-winningest coach in school history, winning more than 60 percent of his games. Enke also led the Cats to the first four appearances in school history. Finally, he was the first coach to lead Arizona to a national ranking, two of his teams finished the season ranked in the top 15. Under Enke, UA competed in the now defunct Border Conference, under Enkes direction, Arizona won 12 conference championships, including a span in which the Cats won or shared seven consecutive Border Conference titles. No Border Conference team won as many league games or overall contests during its membership, in 1962, Arizona joined the Western Athletic Conference as a founding member after the Border Conference disbanded. In 1972, Fred Snowden was hired as the basketball coach, making Arizona the second Division I school
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Tony Bennett (coach)
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Anthony Guy Tony Bennett is the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers mens basketball team since March 31,2009. Bennett is regarded as the best defensive coach in the NCAA and his offense is praised as one of the most efficient. Bennett is the only ACC coach to win 16 conference games in consecutive seasons and his Cavaliers won ACC regular season titles in 2014 and 2015, won the 2014 ACC Tournament, and reached the Elite Eight of the 2016 NCAA Tournament. He was the first coach to defeat all five Hall of Fame coaches active as of the 2014–15 season, as a player, Bennett ranks first in college basketball history for career three-point field goal accuracy, at 49. 7%, peaking at 53. 3% in 1990–91. Bennett, a point guard, played for his father Dick Bennett at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay following his high school career at Stevens Point Area Senior High, while there, the Bennetts led the Phoenix to an NCAA Tournament berth and two appearances in the NIT. During his time there, the Phoenix had a record of 87–34 en route to Bennett being twice named as the conferences Player of the Year. He won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award given to the nations most outstanding senior under six feet tall and was named the 1992 GTE Academic All-American of the year and he also started for a bronze-medal winning 1991 Pan-American Games team led by Gene Keady. He finished his career as the Mid-Continent Conferences all-time leader in points and assists. Bennett went on to be picked in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets and he spent three seasons with the Hornets before a foot injury abruptly ended his NBA career. With an eye toward returning to the NBA, Bennett left for New Zealand in 1996 to play for the North Harbour Vikings and his second year there, he became a player/coach. He completed his career as a two-time New Zealand NBL All-Star Five honoree. In early 1997, Bennett also had a stint with the Sydney Kings of Australias National Basketball League. Bennett wanted to understand everything about the game of basketball to the point that, even as an NBA player, teammates felt he would rather learn and study the game than participate in it. Bennetts teams, especially at Virginia, are known for their motion offense, the pack line is designed to clog up potential driving lanes to the paint by forcing ball handlers to the middle of the floor where more help is concentrated. It forces opposing teams to pass and shoot well, while limiting dribble penetration, in 1998, Bennett stopped playing for North Harbour but kept coaching them. After the 1999 season, he returned to the U. S. to become his fathers team manager so that they could spend time together. After his father retired, Bo Ryan retained Bennett on his staff and there he remained until 2003, after one season as assistant coach, Bennett was designated as his fathers successor and promoted to associate head coach. Two years later, he inherited the position of coach at Washington State when his father retired in 2006
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Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball
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The Virginia Cavaliers mens basketball program represents the University of Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Division I of the NCAA. The team is coached by Tony Bennett, since 2006, the team has played at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia, seating 14,593 and the largest arena in the state of Virginia. Virginia won the 1976 ACC Tournament and 2014 ACC Tournament, and were Runners-Up of the 1977,1982,1983,1990,1994, the Wahoos, as they are unofficially known, have appeared in the NCAA Tournament twenty-one times, with six Elite Eight appearances. Their most successful results were in the 1981 and 1984 Final Fours, in the former, they won the final NCAA third place game, in their recent renaissance under Bennett, they have tallied Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2014 and 2016, reaching the Elite Eight in the latter. The Cavaliers also won the NIT Tournaments of 1980 and 1992, as of April 2017, Virginia has been ranked in every AP Poll of the last 3 years,2 months and 5 days—the longest current ranking streak of any ACC program and best in school history. Individuals recognized in this way will have their jerseys retired, 5—Curtis Staples 44—Sean Singletary The Cavaliers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament twenty one times. The Cavaliers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament 13 times and they were NIT champions in 1980 and 1992. The Cavaliers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational once, in 2008
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2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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Both of the finalists from the year before returned to the Final Four as Florida, who returned its entire starting lineup from the year before, and UCLA advanced. Florida defeated Ohio State in the championship 84–75 to win their second consecutive championship, floridas Corey Brewer was named the Most Outstanding Player. Florida became the first team to repeat since Duke in 1992 and this tournament was significant because it had many fewer upsets than in previous years. There were only 12 games in which a team defeated a higher-seeded team. 7-seed UNLV was the team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. This marked the time since the tournament expanded to at least 64 teams that no team seeded No.8 or lower played in the Sweet Sixteen. Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi made their first NCAA appearance and this was the first Tournament since 2003 that regional sites were designated as East, West, South, and Midwest, rather than by the names of the host cities. A total of 65 teams entered the tournament, of that total,30 of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which did not conduct a tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted at-large bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee, niagara defeated Florida A&M, 77–69, to advance to play Kansas. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65, the NCAA had also resumed naming the regionals after geographic directions. Regionals were named after their host cities from 2004 to 2006, louis, Missouri Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four at the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, hosted by Georgia Tech. The semi-final games were held on March 31 and the final on April 2,2007, only UCLA, UNLV, and USC use abbreviations, all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation A&M. Here are the top seeded teams in regional and their overall seeds. Midwest Regional West Regional East Regional South Regional
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Oral Roberts Golden Eagles men's basketball
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The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles mens basketball team is the basketball team of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The team is a member of The Summit League, the team earned an automatic berth in the 2008 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. It was their third consecutive NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament appearance, the Golden Eagles are currently coached by Scott Sutton. The Golden Eagles and Tulsa Golden Hurricane exchange a traveling trophy, before the 1993-94 season, ORU was known as the Titans. The Golden Eagles have appeared in five NCAA Tournaments, ORU, in just its eighth season of varsity competition, made the big show and almost stole the show, coming within three points of advancing to the Final Four. ORUs dream season came to an end on its floor, however, as Kansas overcame a nine-point deficit in the games final minutes to send it to overtime. ORU, at 23-6, won 20-plus games for the fifth straight season, ORU averaged 94.6 points, the fifth straight season over the 90-point mark under Trickey, whose running style helped revolutionize offensive basketball from then on. Junior guard Sam McCants paced the Titans with a 24.0 scoring average, the Titans finished 18th in the final Associated Press ranking, the second time in three years placing in the Top Twenty. ORU, behind junior center Mark Acres 28 points, gave Memphis State all it could handle but eventually bowed in defeat 92-83 to the homestanding Tigers. Acres, the MCC Player of the Year, was on his way to his third straight All-American season in which he would finish with team leading averages of 20.8 points and 10.5 rebounds. ORU, which opened the season with a 4-5 start, turned things around the rest of the way, one year after coming so close to reaching their first NCAA Tournament in over 20 years, the Golden Eagles finally advanced to the Big Dance. ORU again earned the No.1 seed for the Mid-Con Tournament, ORU romped by Chicago State, 85-72, in the title game in Tulsa, earning the schools first NCAA Tournament berth in 22 years. Junior guard Ken Tutt, who earlier missed 10 conference games with a broken foot, ORU gave the Tigers a good tussle, but eventually came up short in Dallas. The Golden Eagles enjoyed significant nationwide exposure, playing on national television three different times, including a 68-48 win over Southern Cal on ESPN2 while at the Great Alaska Shootout. The Golden Eagles kept the Mayors Cup at the Mabee Center for the third season with a 62-48 defeat of Tulsa. With seniors Caleb Green and Ken Tutt leading the way, the Golden Eagles made history by making becoming the first ORU team to reach consecutive NCAA Tournaments. Green, who became the Mid-Continent Conferences all-time leader in points and rebounds, earned conference player of the year for the third time, but it was Tutts clutch shooting which carried the Golden Eagles to the tournament title. Tutt banked in a jumper with 31 seconds remaining to give ORU a come-from behind victory over Oakland
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Washington Huskies men's basketball
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The Washington Huskies mens basketball team represents the University of Washington in NCAA Division I college basketball competing in the Pac-12 Conference. Their home games are played at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, located in Seattle, Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion is the home for the Huskies mens and womens basketball teams, volleyball team and gymnastics squad. The 2008–09 season marks the 83rd season of service for the multi-purpose facility, the facility was originally completed in December 1927. Wilson James Commissioning renovated the interior of Hec Edmundson Pavilion for $40 million, the renovation lasted 19-months between March 1999 and November 2000. On January 20,2011, the university approved Seattle-based Alaska Airlines as the new sponsor of Hec Ed, in January 2011, the university announced plans for a new intercollegiate basketball training facility. The project includes a study for a $62 million basketball training facility for the men’s and women’s basketball programs to be located in the vicinity of the Alaska Airlines Arena. The scope of work may include relocation and replacement of existing intercollegiate athletic facilities related to the new project, the pre-design study will include programming, alternatives, design concepts, cost estimates, and other related reports. The Huskies have appeared in 16 NCAA Tournaments, the Huskies have appeared in eight National Invitation Tournaments. The Huskies have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational, the Washington Huskies have the following all-time series records vs. Note all-time series includes non-conference matchups, Husky fans filled out ballots while attending games at Bank of America Arena or voted via the schools web site. Schrempf received the most votes followed by Todd MacCulloch and Bob Houbregs, jon Brockman – Currently plays with Limoges CSP. Charles Dudley – averaged 5.3 points per game and won an NBA Championship with Golden State in 1975. James Edwards – He retired with 14,862 career points and 6,004 career rebounds, bill Hanson – first Husky to lead the conference in rebounding. Spencer Hawes – Currently plays with the Milwaukee Bucks, phil Zevenbergen - Played with the San Antonio Spurs for one season. Steve Hawes – played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association, in 2000, He was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. Todd MacCulloch – played 4 seasons in the NBA before retiring due to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, jack Nichols – He scored 5,245 points in his career and was a contributor to the Celtics 1957 NBA Championship team. Louie Nelson – Drafted 19th overall in the 1973 draft, played 7 years in the NBA, quincy Pondexter – Drafted 26th overall in the 2010 NBA Draft, currently plays for the New Orleans Pelicans. Nate Robinson –2006,2009,2010 NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner, Lorenzo Romar – Played five years in the NBA with Golden State, Milwaukee and Detroit
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Arizona State Sun Devils men's basketball
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The Arizona State Sun Devils mens basketball team is the basketball team that represents Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, United States. The schools team competes in the Pac-12 Conference. The Arizona State Sun Devils have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 13 times and they have won 8 conference championships and finished in the final AP rankings 7 times. The highest national ranking the Sun Devils have achieved was #3 under Ned Wulk during the 1980–81 season when the lineup included Byron Scott, Fat Lever. Ned Wulk was the basketball coach from 1958 to 1982. Arizona State appeared in the NAIA Mens Basketball National Tournament two years, both years losing in the second round, leaving the NAIA with a tournament record of 2–2. Arizona State is currently led by head coach Bobby Hurley. Former coach Herb Sendek, who stepped down as coach of the North Carolina State Wolfpack to accept the head coaching job in 2006, was fired at the end of the 2014–15 season. During a somewhat successful career in Raleigh, Sendek led the Wolfpack to five consecutive NCAA Tournaments and was named Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 2004, Sendek was credited for bringing a basketball atmosphere and level of excitement to Arizona State that had been absent for years. Arizona State has the following series records vs. The Sun Devils lead three series with conference opponents and are tied in their series with the California Bears, the Sun Devils have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 14* times. ASUs 1995 NCAA tournament appearance were vacated by the NCAA, the Sun Devils have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament 13 times. Arizona State appeared in the NAIA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament twice, Arizona State appeared in the National Commissioners Invitational Tournament once
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USC Trojans men's basketball
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The program was formerly coached by Tim Floyd, until his resignation on June 9,2009. Other staff members include Phil Johnson, Bob Cantu, Gib Arnold, Rob Brooks, Kevin ONeill, who last coached in the NCAA at Arizona, was named the head coach by Mike Garrett on June 20,2009. ONeill was terminated in January 2013 after a 7–10 start, longtime assistant Bob Cantu was given interim duties. On April 1,2013, Andy Enfield, head coach of the Florida Gulf Coast University team known for its upsets during the 2013 NCAA Tournament, was named head coach, the USC Trojans are 1, 500–1,097 all-time in intercollegiate basketball games. Sam Barry and four of his USC players have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as coaches, on December 7,1906 the Los Angeles Herald declared, Basketball Is Started At U. S. C. The first official game of USC basketball was an interclass drubbing by the freshman over the sophomores, USC would later host its debut intercollegiate basketball game, the first of its kind in Southern California, on January 16,1907 with an 18–15 win over Occidental College. After a standout season in 1910, when USC placed second in the league, several football headmen served as basketball coaches during that time, including Ralph Glaze, Dean Cromwell, Elmer Gloomy Gus Henderson, and Leo Calland. In addition, USCs basketball team was often littered with football standouts such as USC Athletic Hall of Famers Morley Drury, in 1922 USC joined the Pacific Coast Conference. The Trojans then won their first conference title in 1928 under Callands leadership, edging past the Washington Huskies in the second and final game of the conference championship series. With a see-sawing score for most of the game, Charley Bone buried two shots in the last minute to secure the 27–26 victory and begin a new era of achievement for USC basketball. Jones recommended Sam Barry, one of his assistants at the University of Iowa who had also coached Hawkeye basketball for seven years. Barry agreed to follow Jones west, once more joining his staff while also taking control of the basketball program. Barry brought with him a style of play uncommon outside the midwest. His strategic innovations would lay the groundwork for the Triangle offense and it is rumored that other conference coaches are eyeing the Trojans with no little anxiety, the Daily Trojan mused in the lead up to Barrys first season. The Trojans would finish the 1929–30 season with an record of 15–5. USC defeated the Washington Huskies in three games to win the PCC championship for the time in school history. Guard Johnny Lehners and center Jess Mortensen received All-America honors at the end of the season, producing three more All-Americans, USC dominated the PCC South Division for much of the 1930s, with five straight division titles from 1932 to 1936 and a title in 1939. In 1935 the Trojans also won the title with a victory over Oregon State in Corvallis
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Oregon State Beavers men's basketball
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The Oregon State Beavers mens basketball program, established in 1901, is the intercollegiate mens basketball program of the Oregon State University Beavers. The program is classified in the NCAAs Division I, and the team competes in the Pac-12 Conference, the team plays home games in Gill Coliseum. They are currently coached by Wayne Tinkle, Oregon State has appeared in the NCAA Tournament 14 times, advancing to the Final Four twice. Their most recent appearance was in 2016 where they lost in the First Round to VCU, the 1980–81 Oregon State mens basketball season was arguably one of the best and ironically most upsetting basketball seasons in Oregon State history. The team was referred to as the Orange Express and was led by Beaver legendary coach Ralph Miller, the Orange Express season was led by Beaver great, Steve Johnson, in his last year at OSU. This season would be the first time in OSU history that the Beavers would win at UCLA, the Orange Express spent a school record eight weeks ranked #1 in at least one of the AP and Coaches Polls while finishing with a 26–2 record. At 26–1 the team would go into the NCAA tournament as a #1 seed and were upset by #8 seed Kansas State 50–48 in the First round, Miller was awarded UPI and AP Coach of the Year honors and Steve Johnson would receive All-American honors. From 1980–81 season through the 1982–83 season, OSU held a 77–11 record which at the time was bested by DePauls 79–6 record. This record included a 35–1 record at Gill Coliseum including a school best 24 consecutive home wins, however, NCAA sanctions followed these standout teams. The NCAA vacated appearances from the 1980,1981, and 1982 tournaments, the Oregon State mens basketball team has had 21 head coaches and one interim head coach. Slats Gill and Ralph Miller are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, craig Robinson, the coach preceding Wayne Tinkle, was hired by OSU in 2008 out of Brown University, where Robinson had just coached the Bears to a school-record 19 wins. Robinson is the brother of United States first lady Michelle Obama, the longest-tenured head coach was Slats Gill, who was the coach for 36 seasons, winning 599 games during his time at OSU. The Beavers have appeared in the NCAA Tournament 14 times, OSU has an official NCAA Tournament record of 10–17. As of 2017, the last official tournament win in 1975 makes it the longest drought between NCAA Tournament wins of the seven conferences that have won games. NCAA Tournament Seeding History The NCAA began seeding the tournament with the 1979 edition, *Appearances and wins and losses from 1980,1981, and 1982 were later vacated by the NCAA. The Beavers have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament four times, the Beavers have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational four times. They were CBI Champions in 2009, the Oregon State Beavers have the following series records vs. Note all-time series includes non-conference matchups, Oregon Ducks — The Civil War is Oregon States main rivalry
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California Golden Bears men's basketball
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The California Golden Bears basketball team is the college basketball team of the University of California, Berkeley. The program has seen throughout the years, culminating in a national championship in 1959 under coach Pete Newell. The current head coach is Cuonzo Martin, who began his tenure in 2014, the team plays its home games at Haas Pavilion, which was built on top of the old Harmon Gymnasium using money donated in part by the owners of Levi-Strauss. The arena was known as Mens Gymnasium and then later Harmon Gymnasium until the late 1990s when it went through renovations which displaced the team for two seasons. The Golden Bears first played basketball intercollegiately in 1907 and began conference play in 1915. The 1920s was the dominant decade for Cal basketball, as the Bears won 6 conference titles under coaches E. H. Wright, Cal was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1926–27 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Cal reached the pinnacle of the sport during the tenure of Pete Newell, the Golden Bears earned the conference title four out of his five years and in 1959, won the NCAA title. In Newells last year, Cal came close to another NCAA title, the fortunes of Cal mens basketball would never be the same after Newell. The next quarter-century would mostly be a one for the program, despite having players such as Butch Hays. From 1960 to 1985, the Bears tallied only two winning seasons in conference play, lou Campanelli served as head coach from 1986 -1993. The highlight of this era was a 75–67 victory over UCLA in 1986 that ended a 25-year,52 game losing streak to the Bruins. Campanelli in his first season took the Golden Bears to the 1986 National Invitation Tournament, in 1990, Campanelli led the Golden Bears to their first NCAA Tournament in 30 years. Cal also won the 1999 National Invitation Tournament, with a thrilling 61-60 victory over Clemson in the title game, in 2006, the Golden Bears reached their first Pacific Life Pac-10 Mens Basketball Tournament championship game. Despite Californias 71-52 loss to UCLA in the game, Powe was named Most Valuable Player for the tournament. From 1996–2008, under Ben Braun, Cal qualified for the NCAA tournament three times in the 2000s and six times overall. However, after finishing near the bottom of the Pac-10 for the second straight year, the former coach of rival Stanford, Mike Montgomery, succeeded Braun. In his first year the Bears finished tied for third in the Pac-10 and made it to the NCAA Tournament, in Montgomerys second season, the Bears won their first conference title in 50 years. They were able to one-up their previous season by winning their first round matchup against the Louisville Cardinals but fell to the national champions, Duke
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2008 NCAA Men's Division I 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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Winthrop Eagles men's basketball
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The Winthrop Eagles mens basketball team represents Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States and competes in the Big South Conference. The Eagles recently hired former Xavier assistant coach Pat Kelsey as head basketball coach to replace Randy Peele. Winthrop plays their games in the 6,100 seat Winthrop Coliseum. Winthrop has appeared in nine NCAA Tournaments and has won 19 conference championships, the Eagles have played 38 seasons of basketball since their inaugural 1978-79 campaign. During the late 1990s and 2000s, Winthrop established itself as one of the most successful programs in college basketball. From 1998-2008, the Eagles posted a 216-95 overall record and went 114-28 in Big South play, during this stretch, Winthrop defeated such major conference programs as Georgia Tech, Miami, Notre Dame, Marquette, Mississippi State, Providence, Missouri, Georgia, and Clemson. Gregg Marshall coached the Eagles from 1998–2007, engineering one of the great program turnarounds in NCAA history, in just his first season at the helm, he led the eagles to a 21-8 record and an appearance in the 1999 Mens Division 1 Tournament. This success continued as his team would go on to make the Tournament in each of the three seasons, establishing a winning tradition that would last into the 2010s decade. Overall, he posted a 194-83 overall record during his nine-year tenure, Marshall led the Eagles to a 104-24 conference record, six Big South season titles, and seven Big South tournament titles. Winthrop appeared seven NCAA Tournaments, posted six 20-win seasons, Randy Peele posted a 77-82 overall record as head coach from 2007-2012. He led the Eagles to one Big South season title and two Big South tournament titles, in addition, Peeles 2010-11 squad defeated Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. Winthrop appeared in two NCAA Tournaments and notched one 20-win season under Peeles leadership, Randy Peele was relieved of his coaching duties at Winthrop on March 5,2012. Former Xavier and Wake Forest assistant Pat Kelsey was announced as Winthrops new coach on March 29,2012, through five seasons with the Eagles, Kelsey is 99-58 overall and has led Winthrop to two Big South season championships and three Big South Tournament runner-up finishes. Winthrop achieved its greatest success in 2007, as it went 29-5 under Coach Marshall, the Eagles posted a perfect 14-0 mark in conference play, winning the Big South regular season championship. Notable regular season non-conference victories included wins against Mississippi State and Old Dominion, each of Winthrops four regular season losses came at the hand of a Top 25 opponent, with two of the games decided by single-digit margins. After winning the Big South Tournament, the Eagles were given a #11 seed in the NCAA Tournament, on March 16,2007, Winthrop defeated the Irish by a score of 74-64, becoming the first Big South mens basketball team to win an NCAA Tournament First Round game. In the Round of 32, the Eagles lost to #3 seed Oregon by a score of 75-61 to close out their season, Winthrop has appeared in ten NCAA Tournaments and has a combined record of 1–10. The Eagles have twice appeared in the tournaments Opening Round and participated in its debut contest in 2001,1998 Big South – Winthrop went 17–13 overall and won the Big South Tournament
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NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
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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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Tony Bennett (basketball)
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Anthony Guy Tony Bennett is the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers mens basketball team since March 31,2009. Bennett is regarded as the best defensive coach in the NCAA and his offense is praised as one of the most efficient. Bennett is the only ACC coach to win 16 conference games in consecutive seasons and his Cavaliers won ACC regular season titles in 2014 and 2015, won the 2014 ACC Tournament, and reached the Elite Eight of the 2016 NCAA Tournament. He was the first coach to defeat all five Hall of Fame coaches active as of the 2014–15 season, as a player, Bennett ranks first in college basketball history for career three-point field goal accuracy, at 49. 7%, peaking at 53. 3% in 1990–91. Bennett, a point guard, played for his father Dick Bennett at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay following his high school career at Stevens Point Area Senior High, while there, the Bennetts led the Phoenix to an NCAA Tournament berth and two appearances in the NIT. During his time there, the Phoenix had a record of 87–34 en route to Bennett being twice named as the conferences Player of the Year. He won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award given to the nations most outstanding senior under six feet tall and was named the 1992 GTE Academic All-American of the year and he also started for a bronze-medal winning 1991 Pan-American Games team led by Gene Keady. He finished his career as the Mid-Continent Conferences all-time leader in points and assists. Bennett went on to be picked in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets and he spent three seasons with the Hornets before a foot injury abruptly ended his NBA career. With an eye toward returning to the NBA, Bennett left for New Zealand in 1996 to play for the North Harbour Vikings and his second year there, he became a player/coach. He completed his career as a two-time New Zealand NBL All-Star Five honoree. In early 1997, Bennett also had a stint with the Sydney Kings of Australias National Basketball League. Bennett wanted to understand everything about the game of basketball to the point that, even as an NBA player, teammates felt he would rather learn and study the game than participate in it. Bennetts teams, especially at Virginia, are known for their motion offense, the pack line is designed to clog up potential driving lanes to the paint by forcing ball handlers to the middle of the floor where more help is concentrated. It forces opposing teams to pass and shoot well, while limiting dribble penetration, in 1998, Bennett stopped playing for North Harbour but kept coaching them. After the 1999 season, he returned to the U. S. to become his fathers team manager so that they could spend time together. After his father retired, Bo Ryan retained Bennett on his staff and there he remained until 2003, after one season as assistant coach, Bennett was designated as his fathers successor and promoted to associate head coach. Two years later, he inherited the position of coach at Washington State when his father retired in 2006
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James N. Ashmore
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James Newton Ashmore was an American football, basketball and baseball coach. In addition, he was the baseball coach at Washington Agricultural, Millikin, Colorado, Iowa, DePauw. Ashmore was the head coach for the Washington State Cougars football team. His coaching record at Washington State was 3–3–2, Ashmore was the head coach at Western Maryland for the 1907 and 1908 seasons. While there, he compiled a 9–8–3 record, James N. Ashmore at the College Football Data Warehouse James N. Ashmore as College Basketball at Sports Reference. com
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Everett M. Sweeley
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Everett Marlin Sweeley was an American football player and coach. He played fullback, halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H. Yosts 1901 and 1902 Point-a-Minute teams. He then served as the football coach at Morningside College in 1903. He also coached basketball and baseball at Washington State, after retiring from football, Sweeley became a lawyer and judge in Idaho. Sweeley was born in Adel, Iowa in 1880, at the time of the 1885 Iowa State Census, Sweeley was living in Storm Lake, Iowa. He attended high school at Sioux City, Iowa, Sweeley enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1899. He played four years of football at Michigan from 1899 to 1902 at the end, fullback, and halfback positions, before enrolling at Michigan, Sweeley said he had never seen a college football game. In four seasons, he missed one game, the result of what Sweeley called a little row with a math professor. While playing for Michigan, Sweeley set the college record for the longest kick on record. In 1902, he kicked the football 86 yards before touching the ground, Sweeley also held an enviable distinction unboasted by any other hero of the gridiron. In four years punting for Michigan, he never had a punt blocked. Sweeley was known for punts that were high and long. He would reportedly tell his ends accurately where each punt was to go, Sweeley was also an expert place kicker, scoring over 100 points for Michigan in this manner. In the 1902 Rose Bowl, Sweeley kicked four field goals and his towering punts outdistanced the end-over-end kicks of the Indians by 20 yards. After graduating from Michigan, Sweeley went into coaching and his coaching record at Washington State was 6 wins,6 losses, and 0 ties. After retiring from coaching, Sweeley moved to Twin Falls, Idaho where he worked as a lawyer, in September 1907, he married Hazel Jury Brown at Spokane, Washington. According to the 1920 United States Census, Sweeley and his wife had two children at that time, Jean B Sweeley and Anna L. Sweeley, Sweeley also became an expert trap shooter and ballistics expert. In 1916, he won the interstate trapshooting championship and he was elected prosecutor in 1938
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John R. Bender
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John Reinhold Chief Bender was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball. He is one of the few college football coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. Bender was also the basketball coach at Washington State and Tennessee. A native of Sutton, Nebraska, Bender played college football at the University of Nebraska from 1900 to 1904, due to loose eligibility standards at the time, he played five seasons for Nebraska. Bender starred at halfback for undefeated teams in 1902 and 1903, served as captain of the 1903 team, however, tarnishing his image, one story recounts that he refused to play against the national powerhouse Minnesota until Nebraska paid him an acceptable amount of money. After graduating from Nebraska, Bender served as football and basketball coach at Washington State between 1906 and 1908, where he posted a 13–1 record in football. His 1907–08 basketball squad also recorded a 12–3 mark, by far the best in history to that point. Between 1908 and 1909, Bender coached football at Haskell Indian Nations University, during the 1911 season, reporters in St. Louis commented that Bender looked like a charm doll called a Billiken, which were a national fad at the time. His squad became known as Benders Billikens, which is the genesis of SLUs athletic nickname, Bender returned to coach Washington State football from 1912 to 1914. In 1915, Bender was hired as football coach at Kansas State. In his one season at K-State, his posted a mediocre 3–4–1 record. However, Bender left a mark by instituting two long-term traditions at Kansas State in 1915, starting the annual homecoming event and adopting the nickname Wildcats. Prior to the 1916 season, Bender moved to the University of Tennessee, at the same time, the sitting head coach at Tennessee, Zora G. Clevenger moved to Kansas State, in effect trading jobs with Bender. Bender served as football coach at the University of Tennessee from 1916 to 1920. During his tenure, he compiled a record of 18–5–4 and his best season came in 1916, when his team went 8–0–1, marred only by a scoreless tie against Kentucky. Tennessee did not field teams in 1917 and 1918, and Bender posted his worst record in 1919. In his final season, he went 7–2 and recorded Tennessees 100th victory in football and he is also credited with installing the short punt formation at Tennessee. While at Tennessee, Bender also served as coach for the 1917,1920
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Karl Schlademan
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Karl L. Schlademan was a men’s track & field and cross country coach for nearly 40 years. He served as a coach at University of Kansas, Washington State and he spent 18 years at Michigan State, initially as the track and field coach and then later adding cross country to his duties. Some consider him the Spartans greatest coach and he is an inductee into the Drake Relay Hall of Fame, University of Michigans Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995, U. S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame, Karl A. Schlademan was born in Seafield, Indiana on February 11,1890. His ancestry can be traced back to the Plymouth Colony on his mothers side and his father ran a merchantile and grain business in Seafield, Indiana. He graduated from Monticello High School where he was a letterman in both track and basketball. He was captain of the track team, Schlademan attended DePauw University in Greencastle where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. While at DePauw, Karl played football, baseball and was again a star trackman, not having taken up football in high school, Schlademan did well to earn four letters in the sport. He was named on the All-Western football pick at the end position, Schlademan was also made captain of the track team, also earning four letters in this sport. In baseball, he earned two letters, following DePauw, he briefly attended Harvard University Law School between 1912 and 1913. In 1913 he wed Nell Ramsay, whom he met while at Missouri Wesleyan, after graduation, Coach Schlademan went to Missouri Wesleyan College at Cameron, and became head coach. He stayed there two years and coached a football team. He returned to DePauw University in 1914 to serve as track coach and he next coached track at Arizona in 1916. From 1916 to 1919 Schlademan was the director at Baker University in Baldwin. He served as the coach and produced a championship track and basketball team. In 1919, he took a position at University of Kansas at Lawrence and he first took the position as head track mentor and coach of the freshman football team. After the second year, however, he was made head coach for the varsity football team. As the head coach, his team won two championships
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Kelvin Sampson
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Kelvin Matthew Sampson is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Cougars mens basketball team. He was a coach at Montana Tech from 1981 to 1985, Washington State University from 1987 to 1994, the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2006. He has also been an assistant coach for several NBA teams including the Milwaukee Bucks, Sampson was captain of his high school basketball team for two years, and played for his father John W. Ned Sampson. Later he played at Pembroke State University, concentrating on basketball and baseball, the point guard was team captain for the Braves as a senior and earned four letters in basketball and three in baseball. He earned Deans List recognition throughout his career and received the Gregory Lowe Memorial Award as the schools outstanding physical education major his senior year. After earning degrees from Pembroke State in both health and physical education and political science, Sampson pursued his masters degree in coaching and he left with his degree and a years experience as a graduate assistant under Jud Heathcote. Sampson is married to Karen Lowery and they have one daughter, Lauren, and one son, Kellen. Lauren is the Director of Sports Marketing at College of Charleston, Sampson then moved to Montana Tech where he became assistant coach. After serving as a coach for one season, Sampson guided the Orediggers to a 73–45 record in his final four seasons. Montana Tech had won just 17 games combined in the three years before his arrival, Sampson turned in three consecutive 22-win seasons and claimed three Frontier Conference championships at Montana Tech. He led his teams to two NAIA District 12 title games and was named the coach of the year in 1983 and 1985. In 2005 and 2006, Coach Sampson has been some of the nations best college basketball coaches participating in Operation Hardwood. Operation Hardwood is a basketball tournament for the troops which is located in Kuwait. Some of the coaches Sampson joined were Texas Rick Barnes, Michigan States Tom Izzo, after five years at Montana Tech Sampson joined the staff at Washington State University as an assistant to Len Stevens. After two years under Stevens, Sampson was named the coach of the Washington State Cougars in 1988. When Sampson led the team to the NIT in 1992, it marked the first time Washington State had participated in play since 1983. He was named Kodak District 14 Coach of the Year by the NABC for the time in three years. He first won the award in 1991 when his Cougar squad produced the schools first winning season since 1983, Sampson was also named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1992
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Kevin Eastman (basketball)
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Eastman is an American basketball coach and former assistant coach and Vice President for Basketball Operations of the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. Eastman joined the Clippers coaching staff before the 2013–2014 season, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Eastman grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey and graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School in 1973. Eastman then attended the University of Richmond and played on the Richmond Spiders mens basketball team from 1973 to 1977, in early 1978, Eastman played professionally for the Richmond Virginians of the All-American Basketball Alliance. In 11 games, Eastman averaged 9.2 points, prior to joining the Clippers, Eastman served as the assistant coach to Doc Rivers for the Boston Celtics from the 2004–05 season until the 2012–13 season. He was the Nike Basketballs National Director of Skills in 2003–04, Eastman spent five years as head mens basketball coach at Washington State University and four years as head coach at the UNC Wilmington. In addition, he held assistant coaching positions at the University of Tulsa, Virginia Commonwealth University, Colorado State University and his alma mater, as a player for the Spiders, Eastman was a two-time team captain and a three-year starter, and scored 1,162 points. He also a member of the athletic hall of fame. On June 16,2014, the Clippers restructured the basketball operations, Eastman became Vice-President for Basketball Operations. He announced his retirement from basketball on June 13,2016
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Ken Bone
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Kenneth Walter Ken Bone is an American basketball coach who is currently the Head mens basketball coach at Seattle University. Bone, a Seattle, Washington native, graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 1983 and he was an assistant coach at Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington and Cal State Stanislaus before returning to Seattle Pacific as an assistant coach in 1986, becoming head coach in 1990. In twelve years at Seattle Pacific, he compiled a 253–97 record and made 8 appearances in the NCAA Division II Tournament, in 2009, Bone coached the Vikings to a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament. In four years with Portland State, Bone compiled a 77–49 record, in 2009, Bone accepted an offer to become the head coach at Washington State. Bone was dismissed from the WSU Basketball program on March 18 of 2014 when Athletic Director, Bill Moos and this was following a 2014 campaign that saw the Cougars go 10-21 overall and 3-15 in conference play. After leaving WSU, Bone spent two years as a head coach at Montana, then joined Gonzaga as an assistant coach for the 2016-17 season. Bone has been recognized nationally as a top offensive-minded coach both as assistant and head coach and his teams at Seattle Pacific University, Portland State, and Washington State routinely ranked amongst the nations elite in offensive efficiency. Ken Bone Profile - The Washington State University Official Athletic Site
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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
