2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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. 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. The Florida Gators repeated as national champions with an 84-75 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes. Florida's Corey Brewer was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament. Florida became the first team to repeat since the 1991-92 Duke Blue Devils, and this was the first time in history that the exact same starting five were able to repeat as champions.

This tournament was significant for bracketologists because of its lack of major upsets. There were only 12 games in which a lower-seeded team defeated a higher-seeded team, and half of these "upsets" were by teams ranked only one seed higher than their opponent. A #7 seed, UNLV, was the highest-seeded team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen, marking the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams that no team seeded eighth or higher played in the Sweet Sixteen.

 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. ^[1] 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, held on March 31 and April 2, 2007 at the Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology (aka Georgia Tech).

 Qualifying teams

Team names are those listed on the NCAA's scoreboard for the play-in game and first round matchups. Only UNLV and UCLA use abbreviations; all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation "A&M".^[2][3][4]

Listed by Grouping & Seeding

Midwest Regional - St. Louis Seed School Conference Record Berth Type #1 Florida SEC 29-5 Tournament Champion #2 Wisconsin Big Ten 29-5 At-Large Bid #3 Oregon Pac-10 26-7 Tournament Champion #4 Maryland ACC 24-8 At-Large Bid #5 Butler Horizon 27-6 At-Large Bid #6 Notre Dame Big East 24-7 At-Large Bid #7 UNLV Mountain West 28-6 Tournament Champion #8 Arizona Pac-10 20-10 At-Large Bid #9 Purdue Big Ten 21-11 At-Large Bid #10 Georgia Tech ACC 20-11 At-Large Bid #11 Winthrop Big South 28-4 Tournament Champion #12 Old Dominion CAA 24-8 At-Large Bid #13 Davidson Southern 29-4 Tournament Champion #14 Miami (Ohio) Mid-American 18-14 Tournament Champion #15 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Southland 26-6 Tournament Champion #16 Jackson State SWAC 21-13 Tournament Champion

East Regional - East Rutherford Seed School Conference Record Berth Type #1 North Carolina ACC 28-6 Tournament Champion #2 Georgetown Big East 26-6 Tournament Champion #3 Washington State Pac-10 25-7 At-Large Bid #4 Texas Big 12 24-9 At-Large Bid #5 USC Pac-10 23-11 At-Large Bid #6 Vanderbilt SEC 20-11 At-Large Bid #7 Boston College ACC 20-11 At-Large Bid #8 Marquette Big East 24-9 At-Large Bid #9 Michigan State Big Ten 22-11 At-Large Bid #10 Texas Tech Big 12 21-12 At-Large Bid #11 George Washington Atlantic 10 23-8 Tournament Champion #12 Arkansas SEC 21-13 At-Large Bid #13 New Mexico State WAC 25-8 Tournament Champion #14 Oral Roberts Mid-Continent 23-10 Tournament Champion #15 Belmont Atlantic Sun 23-9 Tournament Champion #16 Eastern Kentucky Ohio Valley 21-11 Tournament Champion

South Regional - San Antonio Seed School Conference Record Berth Type #1 Ohio State Big Ten 30-3 Tournament Champion #2 Memphis C-USA 30-3 Tournament Champion #3 Texas A&M Big 12 25-6 At-Large Bid #4 Virginia ACC 20-10 At-Large Bid #5 Tennessee SEC 22-10 At-Large Bid #6 Louisville Big East 23-9 At-Large Bid #7 Nevada WAC 28-4 At-Large Bid #8 Brigham Young Mountain West 25-8 At-Large Bid #9 Xavier Atlantic 10 24-8 At-Large Bid #10 Creighton Missouri Valley 22-10 Tournament Champion #11 Stanford Pac-10 18-12 At-Large Bid #12 Long Beach State Big West 24-7 Tournament Champion #13 Albany America East 23-9 Tournament Champion #14 Penn Ivy 22-8 Regular Season Champion #15 North Texas Sun Belt 23-10 Tournament Champion #16 Central Connecticut State Northeast 22-11 Tournament Champion

West Regional - San Jose Seed School Conference Record Berth Type #1 Kansas Big 12 31-4 Tournament Champion #2 UCLA Pac-10 26-5 At-Large Bid #3 Pittsburgh Big East 27-7 At-Large Bid #4 Southern Illinois Missouri Valley 27-6 At-Large Bid #5 Virginia Tech ACC 21-11 At-Large Bid #6 Duke ACC 22-10 At-Large Bid #7 Indiana Big Ten 20-10 At-Large Bid #8 Kentucky SEC 21-11 At-Large Bid #9 Villanova Big East 22-10 At-Large Bid #10 Gonzaga WCC 23-10 Tournament Champion #11 Virginia Commonwealth CAA 27-6 Tournament Champion #12 Illinois Big Ten 23-11 At-Large Bid #13 Holy Cross Patriot 25-8 Tournament Champion #14 Wright State Horizon 23-9 Tournament Champion #15 Weber State Big Sky 20-11 Tournament Champion #16 Niagara (Play-in Winner) MAAC 22-11 Tournament Champion #16B Florida A&M (Play-in Loser) MEAC 21-13 Tournament Champion

 Brackets

Team names and abbreviations are those listed on the NCAA's official bracket. ^[5]
(*) - Number of asterisks denotes number of overtimes.

Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia

	National Semifinals March 31					National Championship April 2
	W2	UCLA	66
	MW1	Florida	76
						MW1	Florida	84
						S1	Ohio St.	75
	S1	Ohio St.	67
	E2	Georgetown	60

 East Regional – East Rutherford, New Jersey

First round March 15-16

Second round March 17-18

Regional semifinals March 23

Regional finals March 25

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North Carolina

86

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