Kentucky was ineligible for the 1990 & 1991 tournaments. They did not make the field in the 1989 season.
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The commiittee meets once in July to review last year's tournament, once in December to plan for the upcoming tournament, once in February to stage a "mock" tournament, and then meet the Wednesday before Selection Sunday to start making their picks.
Before Syracuse won its first title in 2003, they had already been to the tournament 27 times.
2033 through the 2010-2011 season. 2060 through the end of the 2011-2012 regular season (before the ACC Tournament). They are currently as of 3/6/12, #3 in all time wins behind UK and KU. UK: 2082 KU: 2064 UNC: 2060
The University of North Carolina won the NCAA basketball championship in 1993 beating the Fab Five University of Michigan team. This was Coach Dean Smith's last NCAA championship before he retired in 1997. For more information see: http://www.answers.com/topic/1993-ncaa-men-s-division-i-basketball-tournament The score was UNC 77 - Michigan 71. Mostly the loss is attributed to Chris Webber calling a timeout when none were available causing a technical foul. 2 shots and possession from the technical put it away for UNC.
Kentucky has 7 Total (1948,1949,1951,1958,1978,1996,1998)North Carolina has 5 Total (1957,1982,1993,2005,2009)...but they also had a pre NCAA Championship which means they won before it was called a ncaa championshipex. like the browns won the championship before it was called superbowl.
There were 53 teams in the 1984 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (5 play-in games before the tournament).
He is a professional basketball player. He used to play for the US team Wildcats before transferring to Europe.
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No. Of course not.
The NBA wasn't founded until 1946. It was known as the BAA (Basketball Association of America) until 1949, when it merged with several teams from the NBL (National Basketball League.) The NBL was founded in 1937.
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Kentucky has 8 NCAA Tournament Championships 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1978, 1996, 1998, and 2012. Kentucky has also been named the Helms National Champion in 1933 & 1954. *The 1954 Team went undefeated 25-0 but Aldolph Rupp declined to play in the NCAA Tournament because a couple of players had technically graduated during the season. (This despite repeated wishes of the players to let them play.) *The 1933 Helms National Championship was before the NCAA Tournament Era and is reconized as that years National Champion.
Bill Freider...who left Michigan for Arizona on the eve of the NCAA tournament. Steve Fisher took over and won the tournament with Rumeal Robinson's free throws.
Louisville received their first ever number one ranking in basketball on march 16, 2009. Before that they have never been "ranked" number one in school history, not even during two previous championship seasons. They have been seed number one twice in the ncaa tournament: Once in 1983, and the other time coming as the overall number one seed in the 2009 mens basketball tournament.
W.W.H. Mustaine was the first men's basketball coach, starting in 1904, when UK was known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. Edwin Sweetland was their first paid basketball coach, starting in 1909, when UK was known as Kentucky State University or State University of Lexington. Sweetland was also the football coach at the time. Coaches after Sweetland but before the legendary Adolph Rupp included George Buchheit, Ray Eklund and John Mauer.
As of the end of the 10-11 SeasonKentucky1Kentucky20522Kansas20383North Carolina20334Duke19445Syracuse18106Temple17667St. John's17248UCLA17099Notre Dame170110Pennsylvania1677