The "Final Four" are the four teams that win the regional championships in the NCAA basketball tournament, thus becoming the final four teams in the tournament.
The Final Four are the last standing teams of March Madness in either NBA or NCAA basketball. There are two final games involving the Final Four, two games involving two of the Final Four teams. The two teams that win each of the Final Four games move on to the National Championship, the final game of the season (for NCAA).
The Final Four is present in college basketball. The March madness tournament consists of 65 teams then gets down to 64 teams, then to 32 then to 16 then to 8 then to 4. Those last four teams are considered the final four and are in the semi finals for the title of national champion of college basketball for that year. This year the final four is going to be played in Detroit, and while march madness is going on, soon enough there will be only four teams left, known as the final four.
vcu,butler,uconn,kentucky
As the name suggests, there are 4 teams and therefore 2 games in the Final Four. The winner of those 2 games then play for the championship.
Michigan State, Indiana State, DePaul and Penn.
The Big East had 3 teams in the Final Four in 1959. California def. West Virginia (Big East) in the championship...Louisville (Big East) and Cincinnati (Big East) lost in the Final Four. (I don't know if those teams were in the Big East back in 1959, but they are currently)
Yes, the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is the first one where all four #1 seeds made the Final Four.
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Butler, West Virginia, Duke, and Michigan State
With the victory over Xavier in 2008, UCLA has 18 Final Four appearances. If North Carolina wins, they will notch their 17th appearnce.
The four teams in the final four (in 2008) come from Memphis, California, North Carolina, and Kansas.