NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

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The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, or The Big Dance, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Played mostly during March, the tournament was first conducted in 1939 and currently consists of 76 teams. Known for its upsets of favored teams with its single game single-elimination format, it has become one of the most popular annual sporting events in the US. The current 76-team format will begin with the next edition of the tournament in 2027; the tournament format had remained largely unchanged since 1985, when it expanded to 64 teams. Before then, the size of the field varied from as little as 8 teams to as many as 53. The field was restricted to conference champions until at-large bids were extended in 1975 and teams were not fully seeded until 1979. In 2020, the tournament was cancelled...

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