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March 18, 2008

2008 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, Map.

Filed under: NCAA Men's Basketball — admin @ 9:48 am

Please note: if you are looking for the current March Madness Field of 68 map, click on the following… category: NCAA men’s basketball.
Otherwise, if you actually want to see the 2008 version of the map, scroll down further.


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As usual, the basketball programs of the 64 teams in the 2008 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament have a wide variation in size of fan base.  Average attendance figures go from above 20,000 (Kentucky and North Carolina),  to below 1,000 per game (Mount St. Mary’sCal St.-Fullerton, of Orange County, California;  Portland St., of Oregon;  University of Texas-Arlington, from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas;  and Coppin State.).

The genius of March Madness is in this combination of large and small.  On one hand, there are the big teams, from giant schools with huge followings.  And on the other hand, there are the tiny schools, who have a chance to capitalize on their 15 minutes of fame.  For these small schools, just making it to the NCAA Tournament is a victory in itself.  And if they are able to pull off a first round upset, things really get interesting.

Two of the aforementioned tiny schools faced off in the Play-In  game, Tuesday night, at Dayton Ohio.  Both are from Maryland {see this preview}.

Mount Saint Mary’s {see this} is from the hilly north-central part of Maryland, near the Mason-Dixon Line (ie, the Pennsylvania border).  The school has an enrollment of just 1,522.   The Mountaineers are making their 3rd visit to the NCAA Tournament, their first since 1999.

Coppin State {see this} is an historically black college, located in Baltimore, Maryland.  The school has an enrollment of 4,300.   This is Coppin State’s fouth time in the NCAA Tournament, the first since 1997.

The winner of this game will go on to the Tournament-proper, and will face the formidable North Carolina, so a win tonight will be most likely as good as it gets for one of these two teams.

First round games will be played March 20 and 21.  Click here, for the brackets {CBS site.

Click here, for the ESPN site.

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