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The 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 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 2007–08 basketball season. It began on March 18, 2008, and concluded on April 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. For the first time since seeding began, all four of the top seeds advanced to the Final Four. These were Memphis, the overall top seed and winner of the South region, UCLA, the winner of the West region making their third consecutive Final Four appearance, Kansas, the winner of the Midwest region, and North Carolina, back in the Final Four for the first time since their 2005 national championship. Memphis and Kansas advanced to the national championship game, with Memphis's victory in the semifinals giving them a record-setting 38 for the season, beating the mark set by Duke in 1999 (Kentucky later matched this record in 2012 and 2015). Kansas, however, spoiled their national championship hopes by handing the Tigers their second loss of the season, winning the game in overtime, 75-68. Memphis's entire season was later vacated by the NCAA due to eligibility concerns surrounding freshman guard Derrick Rose.〔(NCAA rejects Memphis's final appeal of vacated wins ), cbssports.com, retrieved 2010-03-22〕 Entering the tournament on March 18, the top ranked team was North Carolina in both the AP Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Polls, followed by Memphis, UCLA and Kansas. American University (Patriot), UMBC (America East), Texas-Arlington (Southland), and Portland State (Big Sky) all entered the tournament for the first time in their school's history. Another school, Coppin State won the MEAC Tournament to became the first 20-loss school ever to make the field. Georgia, a team that otherwise would not have advanced to the tournament, won the SEC tournament to qualify, and were awarded a #14 seed, the lowest-ever by a major conference team in the tournament. Whereas the 2007 tournament did not see many upsets, the 2008 tournament was full of them. The sub-regional pod played at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida featured four games where a double digit seed won. #5 seeds Drake and Clemson fell to #12 seeds Western Kentucky and Villanova while the #4 seeds in that same pod, Vanderbilt and Connecticut, were defeated by #13 seeds Siena and San Diego. Western Kentucky advanced to the West regional in Phoenix where they lost to UCLA while Villanova was one of two double digit seeds to advance to the Midwest regional. The other was #10 seed Davidson, who rode the hot shooting of Stephen Curry to defeat Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin before nearly upsetting Kansas in the regional final. The Midwest region alone saw four of its double digit seeds advance, as in addition to Villanova, Siena, and Davidson #11 seed Kansas State knocked off #6 seed USC. The total tournament attendance of 763,607 set a record for highest total tournament attendance, breaking the record set during the 1999 tournament. ==Tournament procedure== The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is an annual single-elimination tournament featuring 65 teams representing all Division I Conferences in the nation. A "play-in" game determined which of the two lowest seeds would play in the first round of 64 against a top seed team. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65 within four regionals of 16 teams; Mount St. Mary's, as the winner of the play-in game, automatically received a 16 seed. The first and second round games were played at the following sites, which were not restricted to any one particular Tournament Region, because of the "pod system":〔 ;March 20 and 22 :Honda Center, Anaheim, California (Host: Big West Conference) :Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado (Hosts: Colorado State University and Mountain West Conference) :Qwest Center Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska (Hosts: Creighton University and Missouri Valley Conference) :Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. (Host: Georgetown University) ;March 21 and 23 :BJCC Arena, Birmingham, Alabama (Host: Southeastern Conference) :Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, Arkansas (Host: University of Arkansas at Little Rock) :RBC Center, Raleigh, North Carolina (Host: North Carolina State University) :St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida (Host: University of South Florida) The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas, a practice that resumed in 2007. Between 2004 and 2006, the regionals were named for their host cities. The following arenas/stadia and cities were the sites for the 2008 regionals:〔 ;March 27 and 29 :East Regional, Charlotte Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina (Host: University of North Carolina at Charlotte) :West Regional, US Airways Center, Phoenix, Arizona (Host: Arizona State University) ;March 28 and 30 :Midwest Regional, Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan (Host: University of Detroit Mercy) :South Regional, Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas (Hosts: University of Houston and Rice University) Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four. ;April 5 and 7 :Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas (Host: University of Texas at San Antonio)〔 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「2008 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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