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346 teams in 32 conferences plus 4 independent schools.

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Since the NCAA implemented the 64 seed tournament format in 1985, the lowest seed to make it to the NCAA championship game was #8 seeded Villanova in 1985.

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two 20 minutes halves ... overtime periods are five minutes.

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7th NC State

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A basketball game (NBA) is technically only 48 minutes. However, with half-time, timeouts, fouls, and close games, a basketball game is actually around 2 1/2 hours.

The game is divided into 4 quarters, each 12 minutes long. Should the score be tied at the end of the fourth quarter, the game will go into a 5 minute overtime period. Should the game be tied at the end of overtime, there will be a 5 minute second overtime, and so on.

College basketball games are 40 minutes, with no quarters but instead two 20 minute halves. If the score is tied at the end of regulation, the game will proceed into a five minute bonus period called overtime, similar to the NBA.

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Villanova was an 8 seed when they won it all in 1985.

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The NCAA tournament distributes money to conferences based upon how many games the member teams play in the tournament. Then the conference divides that money equally among the member teams. For participation in the tournament the NCAA gives teams a travel allowance for each game that they play, but the real money comes from their share of the conference money. For example the MVC received $2.95 million based upon its success between 2000-2005, whereas the Big 12 received $14.4 million. Teams that make it to the first round this year and lose receive $82,000 in travel money, and they receive more if they advance.

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There has been two number eight seeds (the lowest seeds) to make it to the title game: * UCLA in 1980 and *Villanova in 1985 Villanova won the national championship that year

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1988 Kansas was 27-11, winning % of .710

1985 Villanova was 25-10, winning % of .714

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2 ( 1980 , 1986 )

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A player is disqualified in NCAA basketball when being charged with their 5th personal foul.

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if you are above 21 and watching the game, yes.

if you are not 21 or playing the game, then no.

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The first dunk in a college game belongs to W. Va Georgioan Wells. So, as far as I can tell there have been 4 women to dunk in the NCAA (Wells, Michelle Snow, Candice Parker and Brittney Griner) and 6 overall.

Parker and Griner dunked in the NCAA tournament.

Lisa Leslie was the first woman to dunk a basketball in the WNBA. Other pro players to dunk are Michelle Snow, Candice Parker, Sylvia Fowles, and Brittney Griner.

Griner was the first Woman to dunk int he WNBA Playoffs on August 24, 2014.

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Ray Jackson of the fab five

Ray Jackson wore number 21. Jimmy King wore number 24

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No..He is a Polish Christian.

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20 minutes

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One of the meaning of the word seed, when it comes to sports, is 'a ranking of teams or players for a specific purpose'. So, as far as sports are concerned, the words seed and rank are synonymous.

The use of "seed" or "seeding" was common in tennis in the late 1800s. It was used to describe the act of spreading or "seeding" the best players throughout the tournament in order to keep the best players from meeting/playing early on. The "seeded" players were those of higher skill and thus the term became synonymous with ranking.

The term is also used in terms of "seeding" a deck of cards; spreading the most desirable cards throughout a deck so as to not have them all appear at once.

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Twice 1980, 1986 They beat Duke and UCLA

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There a many different balls used. Generally speaking each conference has it's official ball. The official ball for the tournament is the Wilson Solution. This ball is commonly used by other schools as well. Some schools use the Nike Elite Championship ball and I believe I've seen teams use the Spaulding TF1000 (a very common ball at the high school level).

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I am assuming that what you are really looking for is the magic answer to type into the "tie-breaker" box of your bracket. Usually a tournament bracket asks players to predict the final score of the championship game as a tie breaker.

By taking the final scores since 1939 and adding the two scores together (winner plus loser) and then performing statistical analysis on that data, we get a simple mean score of 136.67, and within a 99% confidence interval, the mean is between 128 and 145.

That means that any number between 128 and 145 (both scores added together) is a good answer to the box. After that it's mostly luck. Good luck!

The three-point line was added in the 1986-1987 season, so if we eliminate the scores from before 1986, then the average shifts to between 145 and 155 with a confidence interval of 90%.