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The 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 NCAA schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball season. Team selections were announced on March 11, 2007, and the tournament began on March 13, 2007, with the play-in game between Florida A&M and Niagara, and concluded with the championship game on April 2, 2007 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.〔(2007 NCAA Basketball Men's Viewable Brackets - NCAA.com )〕 Both of the finalists from the year before returned to the Final Four as Florida, who was returning its entire starting lineup from the year before, and UCLA advanced. They were joined by Ohio State, who was making its first appearance since their 1999 appearance (later vacated), and Georgetown, appearing for the first time since their national runner-up finish in 1985. Florida defeated Ohio State in the final game 84-75 to win their second consecutive championship. This marked the second time in 2007 that a Florida team beat an Ohio State team to win a national championship, as Florida's football team won the BCS National Championship Game over Ohio State in January. Florida's Corey Brewer was named the Most Outstanding Player.〔(ESPN - Ohio State vs. Florida Recap, April 02, 2007 )〕 Florida became the first team to repeat since the 1991-92 Duke Blue Devils.〔 Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi made their first NCAA appearance. This was the first tournament since 2003 that regional sites were designated as "East", "West", "South", and "Midwest", rather than by the names of the host cities. This tournament was significant for bracketologists because it had many fewer upsets than in previous years. There were only 12 games in which a lower-seeded team defeated a higher-seeded team, and eight of these "upsets" were by teams ranked only one seed lower than their opponent. UNLV, seeded seventh in the Midwest Regional, was the lowest-seeded team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. This marked the second time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams that no team seeded eighth or lower played in the Sweet Sixteen; the other instance was in 1995. ==Tournament procedure== A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65. The first and second-round games were played at the following sites: ;March 15 and 17: :HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York (Hosts: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Canisius College and Niagara University) :ARCO Arena, Sacramento, California (Host: University of the Pacific) :Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky (Host: University of Kentucky) :Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Host: Wake Forest University) ;March 16 and 18: :United Center, Chicago, Illinois (Host: Big Ten Conference) :Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (Host: Ohio State University) :Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington (Host: Washington State University) :New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana (Host: Tulane University) The NCAA had also resumed naming the regionals after geographic directions. Regionals were named after their host cities from 2004 to 2006. The regional final sites were: ;March 22 and 24: :South Regional, Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas (Host: University of Texas at San Antonio) :West Regional, HP Pavilion, San José, California (Host: San José State University) ;March 23 and 25: :East Regional, Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey (Host: Rutgers University) :Midwest Regional, Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference) Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four at the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Georgia Tech. The semi-final games were held on March 31 and the final on April 2, 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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