Basketball was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year, as the NCAA engaged in battle with the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women for sole governance of women's collegiate sports.
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The AIAW also held a basketball tournament in 1982, but most of the top teams, including defending AIAW champion Louisiana Tech, decided to participate in the NCAA tournament.
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May 12: Coach Auriemma, along with Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke men's basketball program, were the recipients of the "Winged Foot Award" presented annually (since 1996) to the coaches of the Men's and Women's NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.
He accounted for 7 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks against the Georgetown Hoyas, (a team that included Jahidi White and Victor Page) in the 49ers' 79-67 win in the first round of the 1997 NCAA Tournament.
While at UConn she played in every game since her sophomore season (144) breaking the UConn record for all-time games played (138) by Carla Berube (since broken by Ashley Battle), and helped lead her team, known as the Huskies, to two NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championships in 2000 and 2002.
In 2010, Butler's surprising run in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament brought the small school and its president national attention.
"Bracket-style" is similar to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which shooters are paired against one another, with the round winner advancing to the next level, until an overall match winner is determined.
Battaglia would eventually qualify for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships -and USA Track and Field Championships- in both the heptathlon and javelin throw.
He was unable to play in 2005 in the SEA Games due to his Hartwick Hawks making the NCAA Tournament in the United States, but played the following year in Bacolod when they hosted the qualifiers for the Asean Championships.
The men's basketball team won the NAIA national title in 1983 and made four trips to the NCAA Tournament (1994, 1997, 1998 and 1999) under the leadership of former head coach John Kresse.
Villanova was selected to play in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and advanced as far as the Sweet 16 versus the Kansas Jayhawks in Detroit, Michigan, in which Fisher scored 6 points along with 4 assists in the Wildcats' 72–57 loss.
He was also valued for his off-the-bench intensity; it is felt that Maryland's absence from the 2005 NCAA Tournament was due in no small part to a season-ending ACL injury Strawberry suffered in mid-January of that year.
She had won the 60 metres hurdles at the 2005 and 2006 NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships.
After the 2010-2011 basketball season, Sidney Lowe resigned as Wolfpack coach after failing to make the NCAA tournament in his five seasons as coach.
Einhorn produced the nationally syndicated radio broadcast of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1958.
Another former coach was Keith Smart, who is famous for his shot that won the 1987 NCAA National Championship for the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team.
Chiesa is one of a select few assistant coaches to serve in both the NBA Finals (1997 and 1998) and the NCAA Final Four (1987).
His son, Kyle Wiltjer, played two seasons at the University of Kentucky, serving as a key role-player in 2011–12 on their way to capturing the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, before transferring to Gonzaga after the 2012–13 season.
Bob Gaillard ('58) went on to become head basketball coach at the University of San Francisco and took teams deep into NCAA tournaments.
Atkins ran track for the Auburn Tigers where in 2009 she took first place at the NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 400 meter dash and was Southeastern Conference champion in the same event.
She took her skills to Louisiana State University, where she became the first woman to win the NCAA Championships 200 metres back to back, both indoors and outdoors.
It also includes NCAA football, including Conference Championships and some bowl games and NCAA basketball, including the NCAA Tournament.
Janson repeated the ACC double in 2003 and took her first major college title at the NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship.
It was featured in USA Today on March 17, 2010, to locate the current whereabouts of NCAA Tournament One-Hit Wonders such as Bryce Drew and Kevin Pittsnogle.
The three-year team captain helped the Utes to the NCAA Tournament in 1983 where they eliminated UCLA reaching the Sweet 16, and again in 1986 where they lost to North Carolina in the First round.
She took fourth in the 5000 m NCAA regionals with a personal best of 15:56.96 and finished in fifth at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, gaining her second All-American honours of the season.
He has called the NCAA basketball tournament on CBS; tennis at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics with Bud Collins on NBC; the NBA Playoffs on TBS and Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Mayock also worked as a reporter for CBS's coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament in 1997, '98 and '99.
National Corndog Day is a celebration of basketball, the corn dog (A corn dog is usually a hot dog sausage coated in a thick layer of cornmeal batter), Tater Tots, and American beer that occurs in March of every year on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
The tournament was held at the University of Michigan's Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan with automatic bids from the MPSF (Stanford), CWPA (Indiana), Big West (UCI), MAAC (Iona), WWPA (UCSD) and SCIAC (Redlands).
He graduated in 1956 after reaching the Final Four, while playing alongside All American and future NBA player Jim Krebs.
In six years, he led the Gaels to two NCAA tournament appearances.
rAVe uses Facebook to promote contests, such as the March Madness Bracket Challenge.
He later coached at the college level, which included leading the University of Michigan to the 1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
Guenther came under fire for an outburst during the 2007 NCAA Tournament, calling an Illini player an "idiot".
In 1963, Barnett tried to prevent the men's basketball team of Mississippi State University from playing an NCAA Tournament game against the racially-integrated team from Loyola of Chicago.
In that game, Shane Battier led Duke to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball title.
Ad hoc charters provided short notification lift during the NCAA basketball tournament and subservice to other airlines.
Under the influence of Antoine, the team begins to storm through the competition and eventually make it to the NCAA tournament, for the first time in years.
He is one of only two men to have played in both a World Series and a Final Four of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship .
He was named the NCAA Tournament MVP in the 1958 New England Regionals, as he led the Purple Knights to the National Tournament for the third straight year.
At Georgetown, she finished second in the 1500m at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships her senior year.
He is the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame to start in an NCAA Final Four game.
The boys' & girls' championships are held at the Kohl Center in Madison, or the Alliant Energy Center or Wisconsin Field House in years where the Kohl Center hosts NCAA Basketball Tournament regionals at the same time.
During the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, WSKY-TV aired two weeknight 11 o'clock newscasts from CBS affiliate WTKR during that station's coverage of the basketball tournament.