2007-03-10 07:42:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
64 is wrong. 65 teams make the playoffs with one play-in game for a 16th seed.
2007-03-10 07:47:53 · answer #1 · answered by Will the Thrill 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-10 07:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
65 teams. There is an opening round game for the "traditional" 64th spot in the tournament. The game was started in 2001 when the Mountain West Conference had split from the Western Athletic Conference in 1999. Under NCAA rules a new conference has to serve a 2 year probationary period before receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Once the Mountain West received their automatic bid the field was increased to 65.
Even though people refer to the game as the "play-in" game, it is not officially referred to as the "play-in" game because the teams are in fact tournament members before the game is even played.
Due to the fact that most people still consider the tournament to be a 64 team set, a lot of people don't even recognize the "play-in" game on bracket picks.
When referring to the Division I Men's Tournament, the NCAA officially recognizes it as a 65 team tournament: http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4g3NPUESUGYHvqRaGLGphhCjggRX4_83FR9b_0A_YLc0NCIckdFACrZHxQ!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfMTVL?New_WCM_Context=/wps/wcm/connect/NCAA/NCAA+News/NCAA+News+Online/2006/Association+Updates/Division+I+basketball+tournaments+will+not+expand+-+06-30-06+update
On the other hand, the NCAA Women's Tournament is a 64 seed tournament.
2007-03-10 07:58:17 · answer #3 · answered by sweetie_tdp 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are 65 teams. there are 4 different sections in the tournament, each with a 1-16 seed. and there is one game before march madness with 2 16 seeds that play for the final spot in the march madness tournament. the winner of each section goes on to the final four. the winner of the remainind 4 is crowned the champion.
2007-03-10 07:56:18 · answer #4 · answered by bling bling man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
64 leading to 2 and the Championship
2007-03-10 07:49:29 · answer #5 · answered by My Poetry Is Deep I Neva Fail 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, your Hawkeyes won't get into the national identify image except there are epic upsets around the board by using the season. A a million loss Bama gets in until now your Hawkeyes. (Who will in all probability wreck the Buckeyes in the as quickly as a year SEC beatdown of Ohio St.) The Boise St. Broncos gets the nod until now you often dazzling at 3 with that Junior Varsity time table they have. An undefeated Oregon gets the nod until now your Hawkeyes. (Who will challenge them in the p.c. ... Stanford?) you could challenge for the super 10 (a-la Rose Bowl) however the probability of Iowa stepping into the BCS Championship interest is slender to none.
2016-10-01 21:49:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
65 teams
2007-03-10 13:02:52 · answer #7 · answered by SLY ONE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
65, the first game played is a play in game at which point the winner is classified as a number 16 seed and plays the number one overall seed which this year i believe plays in the midwest bracket.
2007-03-10 07:58:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
64 is right.
65 have a chance but 2 play for a 16th seed. the loser isn't part of the tourney.
2007-03-10 07:56:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
64 total teams
2007-03-10 07:46:08 · answer #10 · answered by Silky Johnson 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋