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As a coach looks on Villanova players run through drills during NCAA college basketball practice in Providence, R.I. Wednesday. Villanova plays Robert Morris in a first-round South Regional game on Thursday.
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By Brad Humphreys Guest blogger
March Madness is upon us again. This year, the men's college basketball postseason features some interesting economic madness across the board. For the second year in a row, there are four postseason tournaments. Here's a roundup of the four events:
The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. The "Big Dance." 65 teams in a single elimination "knockout" tournament spread over three weekends in March and April. Games are held at predetermined neutral sites across the country. The big economic news here is that this could be the last year of the much-loved 65 team format, which has been in place since 2001. The tournament had a 64 team format from 1985-2000. The NCAA generates about 90% of its operating revenue from the massive 13 year, $6 billion contract with CBS to televise this tournament. The NCAA/CBS contract is in year 10, and the NCAA has an opt-out clause following this year's tournament broadcast. Much speculation revolves around the NCAA exercising that option, putting the broadcast rights for future tournaments up for bid, and expanding the field to as many as 96 teams. A new auction and expanded field could substantially increase the value of the contract. I am a big fan of the 64/65 team format, and would hate to see it go. The NCAA seems to have a strong incentive to change the format. Stay tuned.
The National Invitational Tournament. The second tier postseason tournament. 32 teams in a single elimination "knockout" tournament. The finals are played in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Founded in 1938, the NIT is actually older than the NCAA tournament, and for a long time it was more prestigious. The NCAA has owned the NIT since 2005, when it purchased the rights to operate the tournament for 10 years from the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), a consortium of NYC colleges, for $56.5 million. The NIT and NCAA Tournament do not compete for teams; NCAA rules prohibit a team for turning down an NCAA bid for the NIT. Interestingly, Marquette University did just that in 1970, when Coach Al McGuire turned down the NCAA bid to play in the NIT closer to home. Marquette won the NIT that year. Most NIT games are televised on ESPN.
The College Basketball Invitational Tournament. A sixteen team tournament operated by the Gazelle Group, a sports marketing company. Now in its third year of operation, the CBI has a single elimination format until the championship round, which is a best of three series between the last two teams. CBI games are held on campus. Up to 11CBI games will be carried on HDNet, an all hi-def channel that is available on many satellite and cable providers around North America. There is some anecdotal evidence that the CBI has tried to compete with the NIT for teams, but it has not been successful. Participants:Akron (24-10), Boston University (19-13), College of Charleston (21-11), Colorado State (16-15), Duquesne (16-15), Eastern Kentucky (20-12), George Washington (16-14), Wisconsin Green Bay (21-12), Hofstra (19-14), Indiana State (17-14), IUPUI (24-10), Morehead State (23-10), Oregon State (14-17), Princeton (20-8), Saint Louis (20-11), and Virginia Commonwealth (22-9).
The CollegeInsider. com Tournament. A sixteen team single elimination tournament operated by, I think, the people who run the CollegeInsiders.com web site. This tournament is in its second year of operation. As best as I can tell, the CIT has no television coverage, but games will be streamed on Fox College Sports broadband. There appears to be quite a bit of competition between the CBI and the CIT for teams. A recent newspaper report on the CIT indicates that the Athletic Director at Marshall University, the #1 seed in the CIT, was offered bids to both tournaments and "struck a deal" with the CIT that included the possibility of playing 4 home games. The CIT financial model is to charge each home team $30,000 per game to participate and allow the home team to keep all gate revenues. participants: Fairfield (22-10), George Mason (17-14), Western Carolina (22-11), Marshall (23-9), South Dakota (22-9), Creighton (16-15), Harvard (21-7), Appalachian State (22-10), Middle Tennessee State (19-13), Missouri State (20-12), Portland (21-10), Northern Colorado (24-7), Pacific (20-11), Loyola Marymount (18-14), Southern Mississippi (20-13), and Louisiana Tech (23-10).
For those keeping score, 129 of the 342 Division I men's basketball teams are participating in one of these four postseason tournaments. The biggest issue in men's postseason college basketball is clearly the potential expansion of the NCAA Championship Tournament, which would have an impact on the other three.
There is only one team from a "Big 6" BCS conference in the CBI and CIT: Oregon State. Three BCS teams participated in the 2008 CBI (Washington, Cincinnati and Virginia), and three participated in the 2009 CBI (Stanford, Oregon State and St. John's). The University of Michigan ruled out participating in the CBI before bids were announced. No BCS team participated in the 2009 CIT. Unlike the NIT, these two tournaments allow participating home teams to keep a large fraction of gate revenues. which would seem to appeal to major conference teams that have large arenas and large numbers of fans and students.
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When did March Madness begin? How many tournaments have there been?
A competition best known by the name 'March Madness', the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament began life as an eight-team affair in 1939, Oregon winning the US national title by beating Ohio State in the first ever championship game.
March Madness to be played for 83rd time in 2022
Since that inaugural event, there have been a total of 82 editions of the college-basketball tournament, which has grown from its initial size to its current 68-team format.
March Madness’ cancellation in 2020, following the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, is the only year in its history that the event hasn’t been held.
March Madness doubles in size again and again
After 12 seasons as an eight-team competition, the Division I Men's Basketball Tournament expanded to 16 in 1951, before growing again to 32 in 1975. In 1985, it then doubled in size for a third time, to 64 participants.
In 2001, a preliminary-round game was introduced when the Mountain West Conference joined NCAA Division I, increasing the tournament field to 65. In 2011, a further three teams were added to March Madness, creating three more preliminary games and leaving us with the current First Four round, which this year got underway on Tuesday.
Where does the name March Madness come from?
The first reference to the term in US basketball is attributed to Henry V. Porter of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), the organisation responsible for founding another similarly long-running tournament, the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship.
In 1939, Porter wrote an essay on the tournament entitled “March Madness”, and, according to an IHSA history of the event, the moniker stuck with local journalists.
It wasn’t until some four decades later that the NCAA's tournament also became known as March Madness, after the television broadcaster Brent Musberger used the phrase during CBS’ coverage of the tournament in 1982.
March Madness' most decorated team
UCLA's 11 March Madness titles make the college the competition’s most successful team, albeit the Bruins haven’t won an NCAA championship since 1995. Ten of UCLA’s titles came during a 12-year period between 1963 and 1975, a run that included seven triumphs in a row from 1967 to 1973.
March Madness 2022: First Round gets going on Thursday
In Tuesday’s opening First Four matchups of the 2022 Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Texas Southern booked their First-Round spot by beating Texas A&M-CC 76-67, while Indiana advanced with a 66-58 win over Wyoming.
The March Madness tournament proper line-up will then be confirmed on Wednesday, when Wright State meet Bryant and Rutger come up against Notre Dame.
Following the First Four, the First Round is scheduled to begin on Thursday. March Madness will then work its way through four rounds, before the 2022 national champion is decided in the Final Four in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 2 to 4 April.
Take a look at the March Madness 2022 schedule
Full March Madness 2022 bracket:
THE 2022 BRACKET! #MarchMadness
Fill out yours: 👉 https://t.co/ZiCZiRyfFS pic.twitter.com/olRC9it6qG
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) March 13, 2022
Find out more about March Madness
For those who are less familiar with the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, AS USA’s Jen Bubel has put together this highly informative ‘March Madness for dummies’ guide.
You might also be interested to watch Jen's video guide to the event:
History of world basketball and history of basketball in Russia
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Basketball (English basket - basket, ball - ball) is one of the most popular team sports in the world. Basketball is played by two teams, each consisting of five players. The goal of each team is to throw the ball with their hands into the opponent's net ring (basket) and prevent the other team from taking possession of the ball and throwing it into their own basket. The basket is at a height of 3.05 meters (10 feet) from the floor. There are 5 people from each team on the court, in total there are 12 people in the team, substitutions are not limited. For a ball thrown from close and medium distances, 2 points are counted, (because of the three-point line) - 3 points. A free throw is worth one point. The standard size of a basketball court is 28 meters long and 15 meters wide. Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world.
Basketball around the world
During the winter of 1891, students at the Youth Christian Association College in Springfield, Massachusetts, forced to perform endless gymnastic exercises, considered at that time almost the only means of introducing young people to sports, were very bored in physical education classes. It was necessary to put an end to the monotony of such activities, to introduce a fresh stream into them, which would be able to satisfy the competitive needs of strong and healthy young people.
College teacher James Naismith found a way out of a seemingly dead-end situation. On December 1, 1891, he tied two peach baskets to the railing of the balcony of the sports hall and, dividing eighteen students into two teams, offered them a game, the meaning of which was to throw more balls into the opponents' basket.
The idea of this game originated in his school years, when children played the old game "duck-on-a-rock". The meaning of this game, popular at that time, was as follows: throwing a small stone, it was necessary to hit the top of another stone, larger in size, with it.
Quite pragmatically called "basketball" game only remotely resembled modern basketball. There was no dribbling, the players only threw it to each other, standing still, and then tried to throw it into the basket, and only with both hands from below or from the chest, and after a successful throw, one of the players climbed onto a ladder attached to the wall and removed the ball from the basket . From a modern point of view, the actions of the teams would seem to us sluggish and inhibited, but the goal of Dr. Naismith was to create a team game in which a large number of participants could be involved at the same time, and his invention fully met this task.
Very quickly, starting in 1895, basketball from the USA penetrated first to the East - to Japan, China, the Philippines, as well as to Europe and South America.
In 1904, at the Olympic Games in St. Louis (USA), the Americans organized an exhibition tournament between teams from several cities. Similar demonstration tournaments were held at the 1924 (Paris) and 1928 (Amsterdam) Olympics.
Basketball associations were created in a number of countries, but organizational disunity hindered international contacts and hindered the further development of basketball. June 18 1932 in Geneva, the first international conference of national basketball associations took place. The meeting decided to establish the International Federation of Basketball Associations (FIBA). The first international rules of the game were adopted in 1932 at the first FIBA Congress, after which they were repeatedly adjusted and changed, the last significant changes were made in 1998 and 2004.
In 1935, the International Olympic Committee decided to recognize basketball as an Olympic sport.
Basketball made its Olympic debut at the XI Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Men's teams from 21 countries took part in the tournament. Competitions were held in open areas, all subsequent Olympic tournaments were held indoors. The USA team became the first Olympic champion.
The debut of women's basketball at the Olympic Games took place in 1976 in Montreal. Six teams participated in the tournament. The first Olympic champions were the basketball players of the USSR national team, who became champions twice more. The first European Championship among men was held at 1935 in Geneva. Latvian basketball players won. The first European Women's Championship was held in Rome in 1938, which was won by Italian basketball players.
The decision to hold the world championships among men was taken at the FIBA congress during the 1948 Olympics. in London. The first World Basketball Championship took place in 1950. in Buenos Aires (Argentina). 10 teams took part in the championship. The first world champion was the team of Argentina, who defeated the 1948 Olympic champion team of the United States.
At the FIBA congress in Helsinki, in 1952 (during the Olympic Games), it was decided to hold the Women's World Championships. The first championship was held in 1953 in Santiago (Chile), and the first champions were American basketball players.
Thus, the game, which was once invented just for the sake of diversifying the physical education lessons of students, has become one of the most popular and massive sports games in the world. With the development of the Game, its rules were changed and supplemented, as well as the equipment and layout of the site (for example, the introduction of a time limit (24 seconds) for an attack by the team of the opponent's basket, or the appearance of a line, for hitting due to which the team is awarded 3 points (1984)).
Basketball in Russia
Basketball in Russia was born in 1906. Place of birth - St. Petersburg, sports society "Mayak".
The gymnasts of this society created the first basketball teams, then the teams appeared in the "Bogatyr" society, and some others. But before the October Revolution of 1917. this game was cultivated practically only in the capital of Russia - Petersburg. The new life of basketball in Russia begins in the early twenties. As an independent subject, basketball is introduced first at the Main Military School of Physical Education of Workers, and a little later at the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture.
Graduates of these educational institutions became the first specialists in basketball in our country.
The basketball tournament held in 1923 is considered to be the first championship of the country. at the first All-Union Physical Culture Festival. In the same 1923 appeared in the USSR and the first official rules.
In 1947, the All-Union Basketball Section became a member of the International Basketball Federation. Soviet basketball players received the right to participate in all competitions organized by FIBA. In the same year, the USSR national men's team took part in the European Championship. Our basketball players defeated the teams of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Egypt, Poland and met in the final with the European champion - the team of Czechoslovakia. Having won with a score of 56:37, the USSR national team won the title of European champion.
The USSR men's team was one of the strongest teams in the world during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
In total, in the final stages of 39 tournaments (9 Olympiads, 9 World Championships and 21 Europeans) from 1947 to 1990, in which the USSR team took part, only at the very first World Cup in 1959, the Soviet team failed to get into the number winners, and even then only for political reasons, the team was deprived of gold, since despite the fact that the USSR team won all its matches, it refused to play with the Taiwanese team. Such a unique achievement has not been conquered by any other basketball team.
Here is a complete list of the historical achievements of the USSR men's team:
European Champion (14): 1947, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1979, 1981, 1985 (From 1957 to 1971, the USSR national team won 8 European Championships in a row).
The performance of the USSR women's team on the international arena looks no less impressive:
The USSR national team - 21 times became the champion of Europe (1950-1956, 1960-1991)
6 times the USSR national team held the title of World Champion (19649, , 1967, 1971, 1975 and 1983) and twice became the bronze medalist (1957 and 1986)
Three times the team became the Champion of the Olympic Games (1976, 1980, 1992 (under the flag of the united team)), in 1988 the USSR women's team became the bronze medalist of the Seoul Olympics.
The history of the Russian national teams, which are the official successors of the USSR national teams, dates back to 1992. The achievements of the Russian national teams are not as great as those of their predecessors, but these teams have something to be proud of!
So, the Russian men's team twice became the silver medalist of the World Championships (1994 and 1998), the Champion (2007), and also the silver medal (1993) and bronze (1997) winner of the European Championships.
The achievements of the Russian women's team are even more significant:
Bronze medalists of the Olympic Games (2): 2004, 2008
World Championship silver medalists (3): 1998, 2002, 2006
European Champions (2): 2003, 2007
European Championship silver medalists (3): 2001, 2005, 2009
Bronze medalists of the European Championships (2): 1995, 1999
Basketball - OLYMPS.RU
Basketball (English basket - basket, ball - ball) - a sports team game with a ball. Basketball is played by two teams, each consisting of five players. The goal of each team is to throw the ball with their hands into the opponent's net ring (basket) and prevent the other team from taking possession of the ball and throwing it into their own basket. The basket is located at a height of 3.05 meters from the floor (10 feet). There are 5 people from each team on the court, in total there are 12 people in the team, substitutions are not limited. For a ball thrown from near and medium distances, 2 points are counted, from far (because of the three-point line) - 3 points. A free throw is worth one point. The standard size of a basketball court is 28 meters long and 15 meters wide. Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world.
Basketball has been part of the Olympic Games program since 1936. The inventor of the game, James Naismith, was there as a guest. The regular World Basketball Championships for men have been held since 1950, for women since 1953, and the European Championships since 1935.
International club competitions ULEB Euroleague, ULEB European Cup, Challenge Cup are held in Europe.
The game has reached its greatest development in the USA: the championship of the National Basketball Association (NBA) has been the strongest national club tournament in the world for more than 50 years.
History of Basketball
In the winter of 1891, students at the Youth Christian Association College in Springfield, Massachusetts, forced to perform endless gymnastic exercises, considered at that time almost the only means of introducing young people to sports, were very bored in physical education classes. It was necessary to put an end to the monotony of such activities, to introduce a fresh stream into them, which would be able to satisfy the competitive needs of strong and healthy young people.
A humble college teacher named James Naismith found a way out of what seemed to be an impasse. On December 1, 1891, he tied two peach baskets to the railing of the balcony of the sports hall and, dividing eighteen students into two teams, offered them a game, the meaning of which was to throw more balls into the opponents' basket.
The idea of this game originated in his school years, when children played the old game "duck-on-a-rock". The meaning of this game, popular at that time, was as follows: throwing a small stone, it was necessary to hit the top of another stone, larger in size, with it.
Quite pragmatically called "basketball" game only remotely resembled modern basketball. There was no dribbling, the players only threw it to each other, standing still, and then tried to throw it into the basket, and only with both hands from below or from the chest, and after a successful throw, one of the players climbed onto a ladder attached to the wall and removed the ball from the basket . From a modern point of view, the actions of the teams would seem to us sluggish and inhibited, but the goal of Dr. Naismith was to create a team game in which a large number of participants could be involved at the same time, and his invention fully met this task.
Rules of Basketball
Initially, the rules of basketball were formulated by the American James Naismith and consisted of only 13 points. Basketball has changed over time, and so have the rules. The first international rules of the game were adopted in 1932 at the first FIBA Congress, after which they were repeatedly adjusted and changed, the last significant changes were made in 1998 and 2004. Since 2004, the rules of the game have remained unchanged. The rules of the game are somewhat different in the NBA and championships held under the auspices of FIBA (World Championships, Olympic Games, Continental Championships, international and national championships of European clubs).
Basketball is played by two teams, usually twelve, each with five players on the court at a time. The goal of each team in basketball is to get the ball into the opponent's basket and prevent the other team from getting the ball and putting it into their team's basket. The ball is played only with the hands. Running with the ball without hitting it on the floor, intentionally kicking it, blocking it with any part of the leg, or punching it is a foul. Accidental contact or touching of the ball with the foot or leg is not a violation.
The winner in basketball is the team that has scored the most points at the end of playing time. In case of a tie at the end of the main time of the match, overtime is assigned (usually five minutes of extra time), if the score is even at the end of it, a second, third overtime is assigned, etc., until the winner is revealed match.
A different number of points can be scored for one hit of the ball in the ring:
1 point - throw from the penalty line 2 points - Shot from medium or close distance (closer than the three-point line) 3 points - Shot from behind the three-point line at a distance of 6m 75cm (7m 24cm in the National Basketball Association)
The game officially begins with a jump ball in the center circle when the ball is batted correctly by one of the contestants. The match consists of four periods of ten minutes (twelve minutes in the National Basketball Association) with breaks of two minutes. The duration of the break between the second and third quarters of the game is fifteen minutes. After a long break, the teams must exchange baskets.
The game can be played in an open area and in a hall with a height of at least 7 m. The size of the field is 28 × 15 m. The backboard is 180 × 105 cm in size. From the bottom edge of the backboard to the floor or ground should be 290 cm. The basket is a metal ring covered with mesh without a bottom. It is mounted at a distance of 0.15 m from the lower edge of the shield. The ball circumference established by FIBA standards for men's competitions is 74.9-78 cm, weight - 567-650 g (for women, respectively, 72.4-73.7 cm and 510-567 g).
Violations
out - the ball goes out of the playing area;
Run - A player in control of a live ball moves his feet in excess of the limits set by the rules
violation of dribbling, including carrying the ball, double dribbling;
3 seconds - an attacking player is in the free throw zone for more than three seconds while his team has possession of the ball in the attacking zone;
5 seconds - the player, when taking a throw-in, does not part with the ball for five seconds;
8 seconds - the team in possession of the ball from the defense zone did not bring it into the attack zone in eight seconds;
24 seconds - The team had possession of the ball for more than 24 seconds and did not make an accurate shot at the ring.
I am a big fan of the 64/65 team format, and would hate to see it go. The NCAA seems to have a strong incentive to change the format. Stay tuned.
com Tournament. A sixteen team single elimination tournament operated by, I think, the people who run the CollegeInsiders.com web site. This tournament is in its second year of operation. As best as I can tell, the CIT has no television coverage, but games will be streamed on Fox College Sports broadband. There appears to be quite a bit of competition between the CBI and the CIT for teams. A recent newspaper report on the CIT indicates that the Athletic Director at Marshall University, the #1 seed in the CIT, was offered bids to both tournaments and "struck a deal" with the CIT that included the possibility of playing 4 home games. The CIT financial model is to charge each home team $30,000 per game to participate and allow the home team to keep all gate revenues. participants: Fairfield (22-10), George Mason (17-14), Western Carolina (22-11), Marshall (23-9), South Dakota (22-9), Creighton (16-15), Harvard (21-7), Appalachian State (22-10), Middle Tennessee State (19-13), Missouri State (20-12), Portland (21-10), Northern Colorado (24-7), Pacific (20-11), Loyola Marymount (18-14), Southern Mississippi (20-13), and Louisiana Tech (23-10).
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Porter of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), the organisation responsible for founding another similarly long-running tournament, the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship.
Basketball is played by two teams, each consisting of five players. The goal of each team is to throw the ball with their hands into the opponent's net ring (basket) and prevent the other team from taking possession of the ball and throwing it into their own basket. The basket is at a height of 3.05 meters (10 feet) from the floor. There are 5 people from each team on the court, in total there are 12 people in the team, substitutions are not limited. For a ball thrown from close and medium distances, 2 points are counted, (because of the three-point line) - 3 points. A free throw is worth one point. The standard size of a basketball court is 28 meters long and 15 meters wide. Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. 
It was necessary to put an end to the monotony of such activities, to introduce a fresh stream into them, which would be able to satisfy the competitive needs of strong and healthy young people. 
From a modern point of view, the actions of the teams would seem to us sluggish and inhibited, but the goal of Dr. Naismith was to create a team game in which a large number of participants could be involved at the same time, and his invention fully met this task. 
The first international rules of the game were adopted in 1932 at the first FIBA Congress, after which they were repeatedly adjusted and changed, the last significant changes were made in 1998 and 2004. 
Soviet basketball players received the right to participate in all competitions organized by FIBA. In the same year, the USSR national men's team took part in the European Championship. Our basketball players defeated the teams of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Egypt, Poland and met in the final with the European champion - the team of Czechoslovakia. Having won with a score of 56:37, the USSR national team won the title of European champion. 
Such a unique achievement has not been conquered by any other basketball team. 
Basketball is played by two teams, each consisting of five players. The goal of each team is to throw the ball with their hands into the opponent's net ring (basket) and prevent the other team from taking possession of the ball and throwing it into their own basket. The basket is located at a height of 3.05 meters from the floor (10 feet). There are 5 people from each team on the court, in total there are 12 people in the team, substitutions are not limited. For a ball thrown from near and medium distances, 2 points are counted, from far (because of the three-point line) - 3 points. A free throw is worth one point. The standard size of a basketball court is 28 meters long and 15 meters wide. Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. 
Basketball has changed over time, and so have the rules. The first international rules of the game were adopted in 1932 at the first FIBA Congress, after which they were repeatedly adjusted and changed, the last significant changes were made in 1998 and 2004. Since 2004, the rules of the game have remained unchanged. The rules of the game are somewhat different in the NBA and championships held under the auspices of FIBA (World Championships, Olympic Games, Continental Championships, international and national championships of European clubs). 
Accidental contact or touching of the ball with the foot or leg is not a violation. 
The duration of the break between the second and third quarters of the game is fifteen minutes. After a long break, the teams must exchange baskets. 
