The 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination championship of 68 teams to find out the men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national winner for its 2017–18 year old. The 80th yearly edition of this championship began on March 13, 2018, and concluded with the championship match on April 2 in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
During the initial round, UMBC became the first 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed in the men’s championship by beating Virginia 74–54. [1][2] For the first time in tournament history, none of the four top seeded teams in one region (the South) advanced to the Sweet 16. Also, the tournament featured the first regional final matchup of a 9-seed (Kansas State) and also an 11-seed (Loyola-Chicago).
Villanova, Michigan, Kansas, and Loyola-Chicago, the”Cinderella team” of the championship, reached the Final Four. Villanova defeated Michigan in the championship game, 79–62.
Atlantic Sun Conference champion Lipscomb made its NCAA tournament debut.
The 2018 tournament was the first time since 1978 that none of the six Division I college basketball-playing schools based at the Washington, DC metropolitan area — American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard, and Maryland — made the NCAA Tournament.
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