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NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Men's
Division I
Basketball Tournament
is a
single-elimination
tournament
played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68
college basketball
teams, to determine the national championship of the major college basketball teams. The tournament, organized by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA), was
created during 1939
by the
National Association of Basketball Coaches
, and was the idea of Ohio State University coach
Harold Olsen
. Played mostly during March, it is known informally as
March Madness
or the
Big Dance
, and has become one of the most famous annual sporting events in the United States. The NCAA has credited Bob Walsh of the Seattle Organizing Committee for starting the March Madness celebration during 1984.
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