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However, only undergraduate students of the university are allowed to work for the paper.</P> <P><I>The Alligator</I> is distributed free on campus and around the city of Gainesville, Florida, and usually contains a mix of campus and local news coverage. It also contains an award-winning sports section that begins from the back of the tabloid-format paper, and an award-winning entertainment section published every Thursday, presently named <I>the Avenue</I></P> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript> //<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> </SCRIPT> <P></P> <H2>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>History</SPAN></H2> <P></P> <H3>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Early history</SPAN></H3> <P><I>The Alligator</I> began as an independent student-run newspaper, called <I>The University News</I>, on October 19, 1906. The paper came together in time to report on the University of Florida s opening ceremony in its new permanent home in Gainesville, and much of the first issue is devoted to reprinting word-for-word the sendoff speech given by then-Florida Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward.</P> <P><I>The Alligator</I> remained independent until 1912, when it became part of the university administration. It was renamed the <I>Florida Alligator</I>, after the university s year-old mascot.</P> <P>For the next six decades, the paper was supervised by the Office of Student Publications, which was also responsible for the university s <I>Seminole</I> yearbook, <I>Florida Magazine</I>, the <I>Orange Peel</I> humor magazine and other recurring publications. <I>Alligator</I> staffers often worked on several of these at the same time. As of 2006, only <I>The Alligator</I> remains extant.</P> <P><I>The Alligator</I> also had a radio news show on campus station WRUF for many years.</P> <P>Until the 1950s, the editor was chosen by the student body in campuswide elections. Candidates slated to political parties, ran campaign ads and debated each other not unlike student government officials today.</P> <P>The editor was roughly on the same level of prestige as student body president, and various fraternities  controlled the newspaper at one time or other. According to bylaws still in effect with the prestigious and controversial honor society Florida Blue Key, editorship remains an automatic qualification for admittance.</P> <P></P> <H3>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Growth and maturation</SPAN></H3> <P>By the early 1960s, the rapid growth of the university  fueled in part by the decision to allow women to attend in 1947 and to admit black students in 1958  saw a similar growth and maturation of <I>The Alligator</I>.</P> <P>The newspaper printed in broadsheet until 1962 with the exception of World War II, when paper was in short supply. In 1962, the paper switched to a small tabloid format, which it still uses today. Around this time, <I>The Alligator</I> was one of the first college newspapers in the nation to switch from hot type printing to the more modern offset standard.</P> <P>In 1963, the paper switched from twice weekly printing to its current daily format.</P> <P>Also in 1963, Ed Barber started working at <I>The Alligator</I>, as a student writer. By 1972 he became general manager of the paper, a position he has held every year since except for the period 1973-75.</P> <P>Originally, the Office of Student Publications was located in the basement of the old Florida Union (today s Manning Dauer Hall) on what is now the north edge of campus. In 1968 the paper moved into a new suite of offices on the third floor of the J. Wayne Reitz Union, directly adjacent to student government administrative offices. At least one of <I>The Alligator</I> s former offices is now occupied by Florida Blue Key.</P> <P></P> <H3>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Events leading to independence</SPAN></H3> <P>The late 1960s were an era of tumult, which included the resignation of editors who disagreed with an editorial denouncing the university's public tenure hearing for Marshall Jones, a professor who was accused of being a communist by the university administration. He was forced from the university.</P> <P>The university's crowded public hearing on Jones was denounced in Florida newspapers as reminiscent of communist witch-hunting in the early 1950s. The editorial, written after the first hearing by journalism student and reporter Michael Abrams, who later paid penance by becoming a journalism professor, was censored by the University's Board of Student Publications and a blank space with the word "Censored" run in its place. Several of the student editors of the newspaper resigned over what they saw as the tone of the editorial and its anti-administration bent.</P> <P>A national controversy ensued, which brought prominent figures of the press including columnist Drew Pearson to the campus. Pearson gave strong support to the remaining staff. Editor Steve Hull, who also remained, assembled a new set of student editors. Throughout this time, the journalism school was winning Hearst awards, and many Alligator reporters and editors ultimately became well-known in their professions.</P> <P>The newspaper continued to do investigative reporting, including stories about low wages paid to maintenance employees. It was during this time the newspaper was awarded the Pacemaker award as the best college paper in the nation. It was a tribute to both the previous editors who had resigned, those who stayed, both groups fighting for what they thought were the highest ideals of journalism. Lending his wit was James Cook, later an attorney, in a column called Uncle Javerneck, and Joe Torchia, later a novelist, who intercepted humorous letters from "God" to various people. If the columns were hysterical to many, they seemed outrageous to some religiously oriented readers and students.</P> <P>Many copies of the final edition of the newspaper, with its somewhat racy collage of farewell pictures including the university president in a less than auspicious pose, were apparently confiscated at the news stands by persons supporting the university's administration.</P> <P>Controversy ensued with a new set of editors being selected by the board, and an off-campus newspaper, University Report, published by Hull, Abrams, and Scott DeGarmo, a master's student in history. The paper exposed spying on students by government officials and law enforcement agents and was an outspoken critic of the administration of Stephen O'Connell, the former Florida Supreme Court Justice who was president of the university. One of its stories told of a government agent "Palmer Wee" who was apparently hired to watch radical students. The headline read "Wee is watching you."</P> <P>The paper printed several issues and was typeset on an old typesetting machine that was somewhat larger than a typewriter and sat on a living room floor. It was published out of town, as at least one local printer refused to print it. Like many of the radical publications of the time, it was not always in the best taste.</P> <P>The university administration continued to simmer over the young radical editors who were inspired by the transformative social goals of journalism, if not the concomitant responsibilities.</P> <P>The In late 1971, editor Ron Sachs approved an insert to be published in <I>The Alligator</I> that printed the addresses of known abortion clinics. At the time, not only was abortion illegal in Florida, but even the printing of abortion information violated state law.</P> <P>The insert, a deliberate challenge by Sachs in protest of laws against abortion, threw the university into a firestorm. Both Sachs and university president Stephen C. O Connell faced intense public pressure, which they soon took out on each other. When O Connell discovered that Sachs was protected by federal First Amendment case law, he started working to disavow any connection between the university and <I>The Alligator</I>.</P> <P>To calm the growing tempest, state Attorney General Robert Shevin ruled that to protect students First Amendment rights, the university and <I>The Alligator</I> should split. At the time, O Connell declared that never again would UF sponsor a student newspaper on campus.</P> <P>As a further compromise agreement between the university and the newspaper s staff, the students were allowed to take <I>The Alligator</I> private and off campus.</P> <P>Incidentally, Sachs challenge of the abortion law was successful; while he was being prosecuted for the crime, the law was declared unconstitutional. Sachs later won an Emmy as a television producer in Miami, for his documentary <I>Cocaine: The Lady is a Killer.</I></P> <P></P> <H3>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>History after independence</SPAN></H3> <P>Quickly changing its name to <I>The Independent Florida Alligator</I>, the paper needed several years to find a permanent home. New owners Campus Communications moved in 1981 to the former Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house two blocks east of campus on University Avenue, its current location.</P> <P><I>Alligator</I> writers and photographers won a dozen Hearst awards during the period 1971 to 1979, a period when the paper also won several awards from the Associated Collegiate Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. Until the mid-1990s, <I>Alligator</I> alumni had won more Hearst writing and photo awards than any other student newspaper. It remains second behind the Daily Northwestern of Northwestern University.</P> <P><I>The Alligator</I> also was one of the first college papers on the Internet, hosting a BBS as early as 1985 and a Web site beginning in 1994.</P> <P>In 1990, <I>The Alligator</I> s parent company bought the <I>High Springs Herald</I>, a weekly publication located about 30 miles from the university. As of this writing, <I>The Alligator</I> is the only student newspaper in the country to own a nonstudent, commercial newspaper.</P> <P></P> <H2>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Structure of <I>The Alligator</I></SPAN></H2> <P><I>The Alligator</I> is somewhat smaller than a tabloid size, closer in size to the European "compact" format of <I>The Times</I> and the <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I>.</P> <P></P> <H2>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Current and recent editors</SPAN></H2> <DIV> <UL> <LI>Spring 2007: Jessica Riffel <LI>Fall 2006: Stephanie Garry <LI>Summer 2006: Warren Kagarise <LI>Summer 2006: Bridget Carey <LI>Spring 2006: Emily Yehle <LI>Summer/Fall 2005: Mike Gimignani <LI>Spring 2005: Dwayne Robinson <LI>Summer/Fall 2004: Sarah Anderson <LI>Spring 2004: Cameron Ackroyd <LI>Fall 2003: Joe Black </LI></UL></DIV> <P></P> <H2>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Alumni</SPAN></H2> <P>Former Alligator staffers work at nearly every major newspaper and magazine in the United States. Graduates from 2005 and 2006 moved on to work for the <I>Miami Herald</I>, the <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, the <I>Florida Times-Union</I>, the <I>Palm Beach Post</I>, the Associated Press and <I>The New York Times</I>, among others.</P> <P>Of special note is longtime <I>Alligator</I> photographer and editor Robert Ellison (1944-1968), who died in Vietnam while covering the Battle of Khe Sanh for the newspaper. His work, later published in <I>Newsweek</I> as  The Agony of Khe Sanh, won several posthumous awards.</P> <P>Other famous alumni include:</P> <UL> <LI>Don Addis (1935-)  Editorial cartoonist for the <I>St. Petersburg Times</I> who created the long-running series of  Sex Symbols cartoons in <I>Playboy</I> <LI>Charles Bennett (1910-2003; editor 1931)  The longest serving U.S. Representative in Florida history; <LI>Rhea Chiles (1930-)  Former First Lady of Florida; <LI>Philip Graham (1915-1963)  Publisher of <I>The Washington Post</I> from 1946-63, during which time the paper rose to a level of prominence exceeded only by that of his widow Katherine; <LI>Carl Hiaasen (1953-)  Award-winning columnist for the <I>Miami Herald</I> and bestselling author of crime fiction novels such as <I>Tourist Season</I>, <I>Strip Tease</I> and <I>Skinny Dip</I>; <LI>Dr. Samuel Proctor (1918-2005)  Widely considered the preeminent source on Florida history during his lifetime. </LI></UL> <P>Other notable journalist alumni include:</P> <UL> <LI>Al Burt  Award-winning roving reporter for the <I>Miami Herald</I> and others; <LI>Horance  Buddy Davis  Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for <I>The Gainesville Sun</I> and longtime journalism professor at UF; <LI>Karen DeYoung  Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and associate editor for <I>The Washington Post</I>; <LI>David Finkel  Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the <I>Washington Post</I>; <LI>Ian Johnson (editor Fall 1983)  Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and presently Berlin bureau chief for <I>The Wall Street Journal</I>; <LI>Tom Kennedy  Managing editor for multimedia at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive and former director of photography for <I>National Geographic</I>; <LI>Mindi Kiernan (editor Fall 1976)  Former vice president of Knight-Ridder; <LI>David Lawrence Jr. (editor Spring 1963)  Former publisher of the Miami Herald and <I>Detroit Free Press</I>; <LI>Eddie Sears (editor Fall 1966)  Former editor of the <I>Palm Beach Post</I>; <LI>Adam Yeomans (editor Spring 1983)  Kentucky/Tennessee bureau chief for the Associated Press. </LI></UL> <P></P> <H2><SPAN class=mw-headline>Controversy</SPAN></H2> <P></P> <H4><SPAN class=mw-headline>Sponsored rivals</SPAN></H4> <P>Since Stephen O Connell stepped down as UF president in 1973, several rivals to <I>The Alligator</I> have set up shop. Most of these publications were started or actively encouraged by the university s student government.</P> <P><B>One notable contender</B> was <I>Campus Leader</I>, a monthly alternative newspaper started in 1983. <I>Campus Leader</I>, sponsored by the student government and edited by W.H. "Butch" Oxendine, Jr., lasted somewhat less than a year as a direct competitor. Losing his sponsorship, Oxendine changed the magazine s focus, limiting it to students and education, and renamed it <I>Florida Leader</I>. In its new format, the magazine printed until 2006.</P> <P><B>Another rival</B> was <I>The Orange and Blue</I>, a twice-weekly newspaper in operation from August 1999 to July 2002. The newspaper was similar in format to, and in fact started by the publishers of, the <I>FSView</I> newspaper that won a successful battle against Florida State University s long-running newspaper, the <I>Florida Flambeau</I>.</P> <P>In 2000, confusion with a university publication also called <I>The Orange and Blue</I> led the newspaper to change its name to <I>The Gator Times</I>. Although student government leaders quickly supported the new paper, the <I>Times</I> could not survive the economic downturn caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks. Today, UF uses the term  Gator Times in several of its promotional materials and on a student-information Web site.</P> <P><B>In recent years</B>, the UF student government has preferred starting readership programs with larger commercial newspapers such as <I>The New York Times</I> and <I>USA Today</I>. <I>The Gainesville Sun</I>, the local <I>New York Times</I>-owned newspaper, also made an agreement with the university for a similar program in June 2005. To seal the agreement, the <I>Sun</I> started its own campus edition called the <I>Campus Sun</I>, ostensibly to compete with <I>The Alligator</I>. In October 2006, a new student newspaper called The Florida Frontier, with aims to produce a more conservative publication, began producing a monthly on-campus newspaper.</P> <P><BR></P> <P></P> <H3><SPAN class=mw-headline>Marlette</SPAN></H3> <P>Andy Marlette joined the staff of <I>The Alligator</I> in 2003, as an editorial cartoonist. Marlette, the nephew of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, won several awards in three years working for the paper, but his sarcastic brand of wit and (often feigned) disregard for social and ethnic taboos led to several boycotts and protests against <I>The Alligator</I>.</P> <P>Marlette was at first tightly controlled by his editors, but as he grew more well-known and as more brazen editors took office, Marlette took greater risks. He graduated from UF in 2006 and has become a syndicated cartoonist like his uncle. After a two-month hiatus, <I>The Alligator</I> has become one of the newspapers running his professional cartoons.</P> <P></P> <H4>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Israel-Palestine cartoon</SPAN></H4> <P>In October 2003, Marlette inked a cartoon for <I>The Alligator</I> depicting caricatured members of campus organizations Gators for Israel and Nakba  48 (he calls it  Gators for Palestine ) yelling  We hate you! at each other, commenting on that month s escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip. The character's insults also made reference to Hitler and Jesus.</P> <P>The cartoon drew ire nationwide from Jewish students, alumni and advocacy groups, who claimed Marlette was stirring anti-semitic sentiment on the UF campus. Editor Joe Black and Opinions Editor Laura Merritt later printed an apology for upsetting readers, but not for the intent of the cartoon.</P> <P>In personal response to the outcry, Marlette drew a self-portrait with his mouth bolted shut. This form of commenting on the commentators became one of Marlette s signatures.</P> <P></P> <H4><SPAN class=mw-headline>Matt Walsh  crying cartoon</SPAN></H4> <P>During the Florida Gators season-ending loss to 5th-seeded Villanova in the second round of the 2005 NCAA Basketball Tournament in Nashville, junior guard Matt Walsh grew visibly more and more frustrated during the 76-65 loss.</P> <P>With CBS Sports television cameras rolling, a national audience saw tears streak down Walsh s face. The next day, <I>The Alligator</I> featured a cartoon of Walsh crying, drawn by Marlette, in which the tears formed the word  choke .</P> <P>Walsh scored 12 points in the game, a low total by his standards, and given his crying and the Gators recent early-round NCAA tournament losses to low-seeded Manhattan, Creighton and Temple, Walsh was seen by many as an iconic scapegoat for the team s failure.</P> <P>However, a great deal of local criticism found its way to the newspaper. Marlette received multiple death threats and skipped town, while <I>Alligator</I> editors received thousands of letters from Gators fans criticizing the cartoon. Marlette, a rabid Gators basketball fan, later apologized for any offense caused.</P> <P></P> <H4>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>Condoleezza Rice cartoon</SPAN></H4> <P>In response to Kanye West s statement  George Bush doesn t care about black people , during A Concert for Hurricane Relief in September 2005, Marlette drew a cartoon published in <I>The Alligator</I> that depicted West holding up a life-sized Joker card in front of Condoleezza Rice. The card says "The Race Card" and the cartoon Rice has her arms crossed in disgust, telling West,  Nigga please! </P> <P>The use of the term nigga, a direct comment on Rice being criticized as a  house nigga by the black press, drew immediate criticism from black student organizations on campus.</P> <P>African-American students as well professors held rallies and protest in response to the cartoon, which came the same week West was due to perform on campus.</P> <P>Marlette responded a few days later with the same cartoon, however this time Rice's phrase "Nigga please!" was replaced with "As per the cultural standard of African American entertainers deriding each other using a racial and/or ethnic context, I would like to address you in the same way. You are a rapper who constantly uses terminology denigrating to the African-American community. I am an African American and close friends with President Bush; hence, Bush does not hate black people. Please."</P> <P>The student government withdrew funding in response to the cartoon after the opinions editor refused to apologize. Eventually, the editor published an apology.</P> <P></P> <H2><SPAN class=mw-headline>References</SPAN></H2> <UL> <LI>Our history. Retrieved 20 April 2005. <LI>McKeen, William. Carl Hiaasen: Trustworthy as Captain Kangaroo. Retrieved 20 April 2005. </LI></UL> <P></P> <H2>&nbsp;<SPAN class=mw-headline>External links</SPAN></H2> <UL> <LI><I>The Independent Florida Alligator</I> <LI><I>alligatorSports.org, covering all of the University of Florida sports</I> </LI></UL><!-- Pre-expand include size: 4950 bytes Post-expand include size: 1467 bytes Template argument size: 455 bytes Maximum: 2048000 bytes --><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:idhash:1773233-0!1!0!default!!en!2 and timestamp 20070424135049 --> <DIV class=printfooter><FONT size=1>Retrieved from "</FONT><FONT size=1>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent_Florida_Alligator</FONT><FONT size=1>"</FONT><FONT size=1>All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.</FONT> </DIV><A title="Category:Lists of people by university in the United States" href="file:///C:/wiki/Category:Lists_of_people_by_university_in_the_United_States"></A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></H3></DIV></H1></CENTER><!-- end content --> <DIV class=visualClear>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class=visualClear>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class=visualClear>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class=visualClear>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class=visualClear>&nbsp;</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <TD width=178 border="0" > <DIV align=center> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=178 align=center border=0 > <TBODY> <TR vAlign=top border="0" > <TD border="0" ><!------------------------ Menu section, links go below ----------------------------><!-- this is the code for a button below, 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. 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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 1 North Carolina 86 16 Eastern Ky. 1 65 1 North Carolina 81 9 Michigan St. 67 8 Marquette 49 9 Michigan St. 61 1 North Carolina 74 5 Southern Cal 64 5 Southern Cal 2 77 12 Arkansas 60 5 Southern Cal 87 4 Texas 68 4 Texas 79 13 New Mexico St. 67 1 North Carolina 84 2 Georgetown 96* 6 Vanderbilt 77 11 G. Washington 3 44 6 Vanderbilt 78** 3 Washington St. 74 3 Washington St. 70 14 Oral Roberts 54 6 Vanderbilt 65 2 Georgetown 66 7 Boston College 84 10 Texas Tech 75 7 Boston College 55 2 Georgetown 62 2 Georgetown 80 15 Belmont 55 Midwest Regional  St. Louis, Missouri First round March 15-16 Second round March 17-18 Regional semifinals March 23 Regional finals March 25 1 Florida 112 16 Jackson St. 69 1 Florida 74 9 Purdue 67 8 Arizona 63 9 Purdue 72 1 Florida 65 5 Butler 57 5 Butler 57 12 Old Dominion 46 5 Butler 62 4 Maryland 59 4 Maryland 82 13 Davidson 70 1 Florida 85 3 Oregon 77 6 Notre Dame 64 11 Winthrop 74 11 Winthrop 61 3 Oregon 75 3 Oregon 58 14 Miami (Ohio) 56 3 Oregon 76 7 UNLV 72 7 UNLV 67 10 Georgia Tech 63 7 UNLV 74 2 Wisconsin 68 2 Wisconsin 76 15 Texas A&M-CC 4 63 South Regional  San Antonio, Texas First round March 15-16 Second round March 17-18 Regional semifinals March 22 Regional finals March 24 1 Ohio St. 78 16 C. Conn. St. 5 57 1 Ohio St. 78* 9 Xavier 71 8 BYU 77 9 Xavier 79 1 Ohio St. 85 5 Tennessee 84 5 Tennessee 121 12 Long Beach St. 86 5 Tennessee 77 4 Virginia 74 4 Virginia 84 13 Albany 57 1 Ohio St. 92 2 Memphis 76 6 Louisville 78 11 Stanford 58 6 Louisville 69 3 Texas A&M 72 3 Texas A&M 68 14 Penn 6 52 3 Texas A&M 64 2 Memphis 65 7 Nevada 77* 10 Creighton 71 7 Nevada 62 2 Memphis 78 2 Memphis 73 15 North Texas 58 West Regional  San Jose, California First round March 15-16 Second round March 17-18 Regional semifinals March 22 Regional finals March 24 1 Kansas 107 16 Niagara 67 1 Kansas 88 8 Kentucky 76 8 Kentucky 67 9 Villanova 58 1 Kansas 61 4 Southern Ill. 58 5 Virginia Tech 54 12 Illinois 52 5 Virginia Tech 48 4 Southern Ill. 63 4 Southern Ill. 7 61 13 Holy Cross 51 1 Kansas 55 2 UCLA 68 6 Duke 77 11 VCU 79 11 VCU 79 3 Pittsburgh 84* 3 Pittsburgh 79 14 Wright St. 58 3 Pittsburgh 55 2 UCLA 64 7 Indiana 70 10 Gonzaga 57 7 Indiana 49 2 UCLA 54 2 UCLA 70 15 Weber St. 42 Play-In Game  Dayton, Ohio Winner advances to 16th seed in West Regional vs. (1) Kansas. Play-In Game March 13 16a Florida A&M 69 16b Niagara 77 Schools listed with abbreviations: 1 - Eastern Kentucky 2 - Southern California 3 - George Washington 4 - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 5 - Central Connecticut State 6 - Pennsylvania 7 - Southern Illinois Scores and schedule Unless otherwise specified, all games were on CBS, except for the play-in game, which aired on ESPN and two additional games. Those games were broadcast on College Sports Television (CSTV) except in the natural areas of the teams involved, as those were broadcast on CBS. Times listed are US EDT (UTC-4). 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". Opening Rounds First round upsets, close games, and other facts The two major upsets of the first round were #11 Virginia Commonwealth's win over #6 Duke (West Regional), and #11 Winthrop's win over #6 Notre Dame (Midwest Regional). VCU beat Duke, 79-77, on a shot by Eric Maynor with 1.8 seconds left, sending Duke out for the first time in the first round since 1996. Winthrop's highly-touted offense beat Notre Dame in a see-saw battle, 74-64, earning their first tournament victory in school history. The only overtime game of the first round was in the South Regional, between #7 Nevada and #10 Creighton, ending 77-71 in favor of the Nevada Wolf Pack. Other close games included #3 Oregon squeaking by #14 Miami (Ohio), 58-56 (Midwest REgional), #5 Virginia Tech's win over #12 Illinois 54-52 (West Regional), and #9 Xavier's win on a shot in the final seconds over #8 BYU, 79-77 (South Regional). The highest score accumulated by a team in the 2007 tournament went to Tennessee's 121 points over Long Beach State (South Regional), which set a school record. This was the first year since 1993 that a #10 seed had not advanced to the second round. It was also only the second time in the last 17 years that a #12 seed failed to advance against a #5 seed. Second round upsets, close games, and other facts The two biggest upsets of the second round were #6 Vanderbilt's win over #3 Washington State (East Regional) and #7 UNLV's win over #2 Wisconsin (Midwest Regional). Vanderbilt won a heart-stopper, 78-74, in double overtime. UNLV won by six points, 74-68, in their biggest win since the 1990's. Other overtime games included #1 Ohio State's 78-71 win over #9 Xavier (South Regional) and #3 Pittsburgh's 84-79 overtime victory over #11 Virginia Commonwealth (West Regional). Ohio State's Ron Lewis hit a three-pointer with two seconds remaining to force overtime against Xavier, and Pittsburgh fought Virginia Commonwealth's comeback from 19 points down to come up with the victory. Other close games were #3 Texas A&M over #6 Louisville, 72-69 (South Regional), #5 Butler's victory over #4 Maryland, 62-59 (Midwest Regional), and #5 Tennessee defeating #4 Virginia, 77-74 (South Regional). This tournament marked the first time since 1995 that a double-digit seed did not advance to the Sweet 16 (Midwest #7 seed UNLV was the lowest). Regional Semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) upsets, close games, other facts No upsets or overtime games occurred in this round of the tournament, although there were several very close games. In the South Region, #2 Memphis barely defeated #3 Texas A&M as Aggie senior Acie Law, after a solid performance for most of the game, missed an open layup with under a minute left. A controversial clock situation with 3.1 seconds left added to the emotion. [6] #1 Ohio State snuck past #5 Tennessee, coming back from 20 points down to win, 85-84, with a blocked shot by Buckeye Greg Oden with 0.2 seconds left. In the East Region, #2 Georgetown won what was possibly the most controversial game of the tournament, beating #6 Vanderbilt, 66-65, on a shot by Jeff Green with 2.5 seconds left. The play was controversial because many claimed that Green's foot motions constituted traveling. Regional Finals (Elite Eight) The seeds of the Elite Eight teams were four #1s, three #2s, and one #3. This was the lowest combination of seeds in an Elite Eight since seeding began in the NCAA Tournament. Saturday, March 24, 2007 South Final at San Antonio: South Regional Final [7] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half Final Ohio State 41 51 92 Memphis 38 38 76 Although Ohio State star freshman Greg Oden got into early foul trouble, a close game at the half turned into a blowout as the Buckeyes went on a 20-8 run to win. Game leaders were Memphis' Jeremy Hunt with 26 points, and Robert Dozier with 11 rebounds. This ended Memphis' 25-game win streak, previously the longest in the nation. [8] [9] West Final at San José: West Regional Final [10] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half Final UCLA 35 33 68 Kansas 31 24 55 In a fast-paced game with several lead changes, the Bruins used their 2006 national championship game experience along with a strong defense to put away top-seeded Kansas in the second half. UCLA's Arron Afflalo led all scorers with 24 points while Brandon Rush of Kansas led the Jayhawks with 18. UCLA and Kansas combined for 35 steals, breaking the previous tournament record of 28. Sunday, March 25, 2007 Midwest Final at St. Louis: Midwest Regional Final [11] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half Final Florida 40 45 85 Oregon 38 39 77 In what was actually a close game for most of regulation, Florida's three-point shots, along with a 20-9 run in the second half, amounted to a Gator win. Florida player Lee Humphrey led his team with 7 three-pointers, and added up a total of 23 points. [12] [13] In one of the more odd moments of the tournament, Florida's Lee Humphrey shot a three-pointer through the side of the net, causing a 10-minute delay as the net was repaired. East Final at East Rutherford: East Regional Final [14] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half OT Final Georgetown 44 37 15 96 North Carolina 50 31 3 84 North Carolina led for most of the game and controlled virtually the entire second half, but Georgetown rallied from ten points down with six minutes remaining to force overtime. The Tar Heels were outscored 15-3 in the extra session, capping a spectacular collapse in which they missed 22 of their final 23 field goal attempts. Georgetown reached its first Final Four since 1985, when John Thompson III's father John Thompson (Jr.) was coach and Thompson III became the first coach to succeed his father in coaching a team to the Final Four. With North Carolina's loss in the regional final, this marked the first time since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams that no ACC team made it to the Final Four for two consecutive years. The last time that no ACC team made it to the Final Four in consecutive years was in 1979 and 1980. Final Four All of the 2007 Final Four teams had participated in the 2006 tournament. Ohio State was knocked out in the second round by Georgetown, who would lose to Florida in the Minneapolis Regional Semifinals. Florida would go on to defeat UCLA in the championship game. The four teams were all previous champions as well (Ohio State (1960), Georgetown (1984), UCLA (several), and Florida (2006)), marking the fourth time that all of the Final Four teams were past champions (joining 1993, 1995 and 1998 Final Fours). Also, it was the first time in nine years that no two Final Four teams were from the same conference. All games at Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia National Semifinals Saturday, March 31, 2007 South-East National Semifinal [15] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half Final Ohio State 27 40 67 Georgetown 23 37 60 Due to sloppy and inconsistent play (12 turnovers in the first half) and a lack of aggressive rebounding techniques, Georgetown was unable to overcome being without Roy Hibbert for a good portion of the game, as Hibbert played less than 24 minutes due to foul trouble. Midwest-West National Semifinal [16] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half Final Florida 29 47 76 UCLA 23 43 66 In the beginning Florida struggled with UCLA's swarming defense, but ten minutes into the game they took a double-digit lead, and Lee Humphrey blew the game open in the second half hitting three consecutive three-pointers. Humphrey's shots proved too much to overcome and UCLA never threatened in the second half. National Championship Monday, April 2, 2007 National Championship [17] Teams 1st Half 2nd Half Final Florida 40 44 84 Ohio State 29 46 75 The Gators survived 25 points and 12 rebounds from Buckeyes center Greg Oden with stellar play from guards Lee Humphrey and Taurean Green with inside contributions coming from Al Horford (18 points) and tourney Most Outstanding Player Corey Brewer. Billy Donovan became the third-youngest coach (at age 41) to win two titles. Only Bob Knight (at Indiana) and San Francisco's Phil Woolpert both won two titles at the age of 40. The Gators are the first team ever to hold the NCAA Division I college football and basketball titles in the same academic year (2006-07) and calendar year (2006 and 2007). Coincidentally, Florida also beat Ohio State (by a score of 41-14) in the College Football Championship, the first time in college sports history that identical matchups and results have occurred in both football and basketball championships. This was also the first time in NCAA D-I men's basketball history that the exact same starting five were able to win back-to-back titles (Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer, Lee Humphrey, Al Horford, Taurean Green). Florida's Lee Humphrey also set the all-time NCAA Tournament record for three-point field goals made with 47. Humphrey surpassed Bobby Hurley's record of 42. Record by Conference Conference # of Bids Record Win % Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four Championship Game Champions C-USA 1 3-1 .750 1 1 - - - SEC 5 11-4 .733 3 1 1 1 1 Pac-10 6 10-6 .625 3 2 1 - - Big Ten 6 9-6 .600 1 1 1 1 - Big 12 4 6-4 .600 2 1 - - - Big East 6 7-6 .538 2 1 1 - - ACC 7 7-7 .500 1 1 - - - Horizon 2 2-2 .500 1 - - - - Missouri Valley 2 2-2 .500 1 - - - - Mountain West 2 2-2 .500 1 - - - - Big South 1 1-1 .500 - - - - - MAAC 1 1-1* .500 - - - - - Atlantic 10 2 1-2 .333 - - - - - CAA 2 1-2 .333 - - - - - WAC 2 1-2 .333 - - - - - The America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big West, Ivy, MEAC, Mid-American, Mid-Continent, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Sun Belt, SWAC, and WCC all went 0-1. * The MAAC went 1-1 since Niagara won the Play-in Game. Television and radio For the 26th consecutive year, CBS Sports telecast the tournament, and for the 17th consecutive year, broadcast every game from the first round to the championship, with Jim Nantz and Billy Packer calling the Final Four. Nantz was in a stretch in which he will broadcast Super Bowl XLI, the Final Four, and The Masters golf tournament all in a 10-week period. The complete list of announcing teams follows: Jim Nantz and Billy Packer - 1st/2nd rounds at Chicago, East Rutherford (East Regionals), Final Four James Brown and Len Elmore - 1st/2nd rounds at Sacramento, St. Louis (Midwest Regionals) Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas - 1st/2nd rounds at Winston-Salem, San Jose (West Regionals) Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery - 1st/2nd rounds at New Orleans, San Antonio (South Regionals) Tim Brando and Mike Gminski - 1st/2nd rounds at Columbus Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel - 1st/2nd rounds at Spokane Kevin Harlan and Bob Wenzel - 1st/2nd rounds at Buffalo Gus Johnson and Dan Bonner - 1st/2nd rounds at Lexington Greg Gumbel once again served as the studio host, joined by analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis. College Sports Television (CSTV), owned by CBS, telecast the George Washington-Vanderbilt and the Virginia-Albany contests (in addition to the local CBS affiliates nearest to the participating teams in those games, and those using their digital subchannels for multicasting). Those games served as the first-ever live tourney telecasts on CSTV, which also provided a highlights show after each day of competition. For the first three rounds of the tournament, games were also shown on DirecTV through the Mega March Madness pay-per-view service and on March Madness on Demand, a broadband Internet video streaming service that was a joint venture between CBS Sportsline and the NCAA. The opening round game was broadcast on ESPN for the sixth consecutive year. Westwood One once again had the live radio coverage. Kevin Harlan once again served as the play-by-play man at the Final Four with Bill Raftery and John Thompson on color. Thompson the elder is the father of current Georgetown coach John Thompson III. Basketball courts During the first- and second-round games in New Orleans, as part of the continuing recovery process from Hurricane Katrina, the NCAA allowed an additional floor decal recognizing the work of Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge program through the subregional's host institution, Tulane University. This marked the first time that a logo other than that of the NCAA or an NCAA member school has been allowed at a NCAA-sanctioned championship event. In addition, Tulane student athletes and athletic department personnel built a new house, valued at $75,000, which was paid for by the NCAA and their corporate partner Lowe's, on Girod Street between the New Orleans Arena, site of the games, and the Louisiana Superdome, which has hosted four Final Fours.[18] Also, for the first time, custom-made courts were used in the regional semi-finals and finals. References ^ http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryDate=20061009&name=katz_andy ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/scoreboard/madness/20070313 ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/scoreboard/madness/20070315 ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/scoreboard/madness/20070316 ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/brackets/viewable/2007 ^ King Kaufman. 2007-03-23. NCAA Tournament's upset-free first round has led to Sweet 16 humdingers. Plus: Why is time so time-consuming? And: Replays Retrieved on 2007-04-08. ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070324 ^ http://www.newsnet5.com/cbaskc12/11362970/detail.html ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=274000046 ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070324 ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070325 ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=274000061 ^ http://www.local6.com/cbaska89/11373239/detail.html ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070325 ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070331 ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070331 ^ http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=100&date=20070402 ^ http://www.ncaasports.com/story/10062095 Tulane teams with Habitat with Humanity March 15, 2007 External links NCAA Men's Basketball Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament#Final_Four All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. 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