The First Four of the NCAA tournament, explained

The first four are the official start of the Mad March, with four games played earlier in the week before the basketball tournaments of men and women of NCAA.

Here is a quick guide to the first four:

When did the first four start in March?

In 1999, the Mountain West conference was added to Division I. In its second season, the 2000-01 campaign, the conference received an automatic offer for the first time, encountered a total number of automatic qualifications in the NCAA for 31 and the total number of teams for 65 years.

From 2001 to 2010, it was engaged in an opening game, where the two worst teams played on Tuesday after Sunday.

In 2011, the NCAA tournament again expanded to 68 teams and the first four were created to trim the number of teams from 68 to 64 for the first round. Since the 2025 tournament, there are 31 automatic offers and 37 large selections.

Who plays in the first four men?

When choosing teams for the NCAA tournament, the basketball committee for men NCAA Division and each team ranks every team from 1 to 68 years. In its current format, the first four consist of eight teams-four of the lowest automatic qualifications and the four lowest teams. Each subset plays against each other (ie large teams face large teams and face automatic qualifications).

When were the first four added to a female tournament?

In November 2021, NCAA announced the expansion of the women’s NCAA division tournament to 68 teams.

Who was in the first inauguration four in the women’s tournament?

Seeds No. 16 Howard, InkarNate Word, Longwood and Mount St. Mary’s Plus No. 11 Seeds Dayton, Depot, Missouri State and Florida State. You can read more here at NCAA.org.

How do the first four men of men do 64 teams?

Well, better than you could expect.

Standard wearers are VCU and 2021 UCLA units in 2011, which are seeds No. 11, which reached the final Four after the first four. The NCAA 2019 and 2025 tournaments have been the only time since the field has expanded to 68 teams, where at least one big first Four team failed to win the 64-team parentheses.

You can read exactly how the first four teams have.

Who was in the first four at the male tournament?

The first four of 2011 consisted of UTSA, Clemson, UNC Asheville, VCU, Alabama State, UAB, Arkansas-Little Rock and South California. Here’s what the holder looked like (the first four scores are bottom right):

Where are the first four men play?

The first four of the male tournament was always hosted at the University of Dayton in Dayton Ohio. Here is more about the impressive history of Daytona as a university basketball city. It was played in Indiana on the Indiana University and Purdue University campuses in 2021 due to the ongoing Covid-19-19 pandemic, with all the NCAA tournament games in the state.

Who are some remarkable teams that came out of the first four men?

In the first 14 NCAA male basketball tournaments, which represented the first four, at least one four team survived until the round of 32 in all two of these seasons (2019 and 2025).

In the first 68-team field, No. 11 VCU knocked out in the first four seed no.

VCU was the only team to leave the first four to Final Four until 2021, when UCLA exceeded the 11-point half-time deficit to defeat the Michigan state in the first four to win overtime. This set a magical run, where Bruins knocked No. 6 Byu, No. 14 Abilene Christian, No. 2 Alabama and No. 1 Michigan to advance to Final Four, where Bruins lost overtime to total seed no. 1 and then Gonzaga.