The winner (and loser) of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will have played 6 games in the tournament.
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There were 53 teams in the 1984 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (5 play-in games before the tournament).
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The NCAA 2011 Basketball tourney starts on March 15th with the play in games and the regular games start on March 17th.
The higher seed is considered the home team
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The maximum number of regular season games is 29. Up to 3 games can count as 1 game, if they are in a tournament. So 31 games if 3 are in a tournament. Additional post season games are also allowed. 1. Conference tournament 2. NCAA, NIT, or CBI post season tournaments. If a team playes all 31 regular season games and the max conference tournament would be 5 games, and the max NCAA games of 6, they will have played 42 games. That hardly ever happens.
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an NBA regular season consists of 82 games.
Christian Laettner (Duke 1989-1882) played in 23 NCAA tournament games. Bobby Hurley (Duke 1990-1993) played in 20 games.