Who won March Madness 2022?

The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, also known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.

The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State coach Harold Olsen.

Played mostly during March, it has become one of the biggest annual sporting events in the United States.

Currently, the games are broadcast by CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV under the trade name NCAA March Madness.

With 11 national titles, UCLA has the record for the most NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championships; John Wooden coached UCLA to 10 of its 11 titles.

The University of Kentucky (UK) is second, with eight national titles.

The University of North Carolina is third, with six national titles, and Duke University and Indiana University are tied for fourth with five national titles.

The University of Connecticut (UConn) and the University of Kansas (KU) are tied for sixth with four national titles.

Villanova University is seventh with three national titles.

The University of Cincinnati, the University of Florida, University of Louisville, Michigan State University, North Carolina State, Oklahoma State, and the University of San Francisco all have two national titles.

The tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, 65 in 2001, and 68 in 2011.

Both 2020 men’s and women’s tournaments were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 tournament was played at various venues in Indiana, the first (and only) time that a tournament has been hosted in its entirety by one state.

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