Basketball.
The NCAA basketball tournament, commonly referred to as "March Madness," started on March 17 this year and will end on April 8. The NCAA basketball tournament typically goes from about the second week of March until the first week of April. The exact dates vary from year to year.
The first NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament was played in 1982. In the championship game, Louisiana Techdefeated Cheyney State 76-62.
The first march madness has held in 1939 which is won by the Oregon Ducks men's basketball team.
The first and most well known major basketball tournament is the NBA Playoffs. In college, it is a 64 team tournament known as March Madness. There is also a tournament every four years in the Olympic Games. There is also the NIT tournament in college, and FIBA Tournament in international play.
Ironically, "March Madness" (as the NCAA men's basketball tournament has come to be known) is designed such that the Championship Game is always played on the first Monday in April. (I guess the madness is considered to have quieted itself by the time only two teams remain.)
the first womens basketball tournament was in 1905
Under the format in use for the 2013 NCAA men's basketball tournament, "March Madness" consists of the following games: 4 First-round "play-in" games 32 Second-round games 16 Third-round games 8 Sweet 16 games 4 Regional championship games 2 Final Four semi-final games 1 Championship/title game 67 TOTAL GAMES PLAYED Thus, it is the 67th game that determines the winner.
71-51 North Carolina in the first round of the 1994 NCAA tournament.
March Madness, which refers to a basketball fever phenomenon, originated in Illinois in the late 1930's. The expression first appeared in the Illinois Interscholastic, the IHSA's magazine, in 1939.
The first national basketball tournament was the National Invitational Tournament, the NIT. It preceded the start of the NCAA tourney. The first year of the NCAA Basketball Tournament was 1939.
it started in 1971