University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio (Host: University of Dayton).The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 2006 tournament: Schedule and venues Ĭlass=notpageimage| 2006 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red) In 2006, these rankings were as follows: No. The top overall seed would be seeded to play the fourth overall seed in the national semifinals, should both teams advance that far. In a practice used since 2004, the ranking of the four top seeds against each other would determine the pairings in the Final Four. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65. Monmouth defeated Hampton, 71–49, to advance to play Villanova.Īll teams were seeded from 1 to 16 within their regions. The initial game on March 14 officially named the Opening Round game, but popularly called the "play-in game", had Monmouth, winner of the Northeast Conference Tournament, facing Hampton, who won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament, for a chance to play top seed Villanova in the First Round of the Tournament. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. Penn earned an automatic bid by winning the regular-season title of the Ivy League, which did not conduct a conference tournament. Of that total, 31 of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. 11-seeded Panthers defeated Oklahoma in the first round.įurther information: NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship § Tournament formatĪ total of 65 teams were selected to participate in the tournament.
For the second straight year, Milwaukee won as a double-digit seed, this time as the No. 12 seeds won as well, as Montana and Texas A&M both won their respective First Round matchups. 4 seed Kansas and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen by defeating No. 3 seed as Northwestern State defeated Iowa. George Mason's run was one of several upsets by lower-seeded teams in the tournament. Florida's Joakim Noah was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament. They were joined by Atlanta region winner LSU (who was the first team to advance to the Final Four as an 11-seed in 1986), Oakland region winner UCLA, who had not made the Final Four since they won the National Championship in 1995, and Minneapolis region winner Florida, who had not made the Final Four since their runner-up finish in 2000 also in Indianapolis.įlorida won its first-ever national basketball championship by defeating UCLA 73–57 in the final game. For the second time in history, a team seeded 11th advanced to the Final Four as George Mason of the Colonial Athletic Association won the Washington, D.C. None of the Tournament's top seeds advanced to the Final Four, the first time since 1980 that this occurred. It began on March 14, 2006, and concluded on April 3 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2005–06 basketball season.
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