2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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The 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament will involve 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It is scheduled to begin on March 16, 2010 and will conclude with the championship game on April 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The event will also be the first Final Four at Lucas Oil Stadium, as the RCA Dome and Market Square Arena has hosted past Final Fours when the event was held in Indianapolis.
[edit] Tournament procedure
- For more details on this topic, see NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship#Tournament format.
A total of 65 teams will enter the tournament. Thirty of the teams will earn automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a postseason tournament, will go to its regular-season champion. The remaining 34 teams will be granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
Two teams will play an opening-round game, popularly called the "play-in game"; the winner of that game advanced to the main draw of the tournament and plays a top seed in one of the regionals. The 2010 game will be played on March 16 at University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio, as it has since its inception in 2001.
All 64 teams will be seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals; the winner of the play-in game automatically will receive a 16 seed. The Selection Committee will seed the entire field from 1 to 65.
The 2010 regional sites are:
- Midwest Regional, Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)
- West Regional, EnergySolutions Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah (Host: University of Utah)
- East Regional, Carrier Dome, Syracuse, New York (Host: Syracuse University)
- South Regional, Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas (Host: University of Houston)
The first and second round games will be played at the following sites:
- Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island (Hosts: Big East Conference & Providence College)
- New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana (Host: Tulane University)
- HP Pavilion, San Jose, California (Host: San Jose State University)
- Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington (Host: Washington State University)
- HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York (Hosts: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Canisius College, & Niagara University)
- Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida (Host: Jacksonville University)
- Ford Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Host: Big 12 Conference)
- Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Host: Marquette University)
Each regional winner will advance to the Final Four, held from April 3-5 in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium, hosted by the Horizon League and Butler University, as per the NCAA's mandate that one Final Four is held every five years in the city that houses the NCAA's headquarters.
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