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.
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about 18 or 20 teams.
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There is like 83
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In 2012, there are (or were) four teams in the NCAA tournament: Duke, Florida State, North Carolina and North Carolina State. That is 4/68 or 5.9% of the tournament. Actually, in 2011, the seven teams that were in the NCAA tournament were: Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Boston College and Virginia Tech. That constituted 7/65 of the entire NCAA tournament or 10.8%
64 teams in the NCAA tournament in 2000
In NCAA basketball history, there have been a few instances where teams ranked 15th defeated teams ranked 2nd in the NCAA Tournament. Notably, this occurred during the 2012 tournament when Lehigh defeated Duke, and again in 2016 when Middle Tennessee State upset Michigan State. These upsets are rare, highlighting the unpredictability of the tournament. Overall, there are only a handful of such occurrences in NCAA tournament history.
The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament went to 64 teams in 1985.
1939 was the first NCAA tournament. The teams participating were: Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah State, Villanova, Brown, Wake Forest, Ohio State Ohio State and Oregon played in the Final with Oregon winning the first NCAA Tournament.