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Cities interested in hosting the NCAA tournament games submit a bid to the selection committee. Members visit and vote on each potential future site.
The #1 seeds are 108-0 against #16 seeds in the NCAA tournament.
Absolutely. The winner of the Mountain West Tournament gets an automatic bid into the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Other teams can also gain entry, if selected by the NCAA Selection Committee. The committee bases their choices on regular season record and strength of schedule, amongst other factors.
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Wichita State is in the Missouri Valley Conference. They were listed as being in the South Regional in the 2012 NCAA tournament.
There was no 1933 NCAA Tournament. The first NCAA Tournament was in 1939 with Oregon beating Ohio State in the Finals.
The first NCAA Basketball Tournament was held in 1939.
Michigan State did not make the NCAA tournament in 1980 after winning the championship in 1979. Florida did not make the NCAA tournament in 2008 after winning the 2007 championship. North Carolina won the NCAA tournament in 2009 and will not make the tournament in 2010.
The player who scored the most points in a single game during the 2012 NCAA Tournament was Jack Taylor of Grinnell College. He set the record by scoring 138 points in a game against Faith Baptist Bible College on November 20, 2012. However, this performance occurred outside of the NCAA tournament context. In the actual 2012 NCAA Tournament, the highest individual score was 50 points by Ohio State's Jared Sullinger in a game against Gonzaga.
The winner of theOhio Valley Conference tournament goes to the NCAA tournament
Teams that are on the verge of being in or out of the NCAA tournament.