It’s down to 8 teams, in this year’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. Below are the Team pages from the CBS site; click on the team names below to be directed to each team’s page on the CBS site.
North Carolina. Xavier. Louisville. UCLA. Texas. Kansas. Memphis. Davidson.
The map now includes NCAA Tournament stats from all of the remaining schools. Of the Eight, 4 have won the tournament in the past. UCLA has the all-time most National Championships, with 11. North Carolina has 4 Championships, and Kansas and Louisville have 2 Championships. Click here, for the full list of Champions (note, click on the small arrow-box at the top of the list there, where it says “sortable,” to see the Titles List chronologically).
In the Elite Eight this year, one conferences is represented by 2 teams: the Big 12, with, Kansas and Texas. The other conferences represented are: the ACC (North Carolina); the Big East (Louisville); the Atlantic 10 (Xavier); the Southern Conference (Davidson); Conference USA (Memphis); and the Pac-10 (UCLA).
There are all four #1 seeds, just one #2 seed, two #3 seeds, and one #10 seed (Davidson).
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was formed in 1939. The term “March Madness” came into common currency in the mid-1980′s. I found an interesting entry from Wikipedia, about the origins of the term “March Madness.” To see it, click here.
