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The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament went to 64 teams in 1985.
There were 53 teams in the 1984 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (5 play-in games before the tournament).
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In 2000 there were 64 teams that played in the Division I basketball tournament.
Teams that are on the verge of being in or out of the NCAA tournament.
The 2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament included teams from 31 states and the District of Columbia.
The original NCAA Division 1 College Basketball Tournament 1939 field consisted of 8 teams.
UCLA with 11.
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There were no schools from New Jersey represented in the 2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament.
1939 was the first NCAA tournament. The teams participating were: Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah State, Villanova, Brown, Wake Forest, Ohio State Ohio State and Oregon played in the Final with Oregon winning the first NCAA Tournament.
North Carolina, Duke, NC State and Maryland.