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2006 68th Annual Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Information and Tickets

Opening Round Tuesday, March 14, 2006 University of Dayton Arena Dayton, Ohio Host: University of Dayton Buy Tickets First/Second Rounds Thursday and Saturday, March 16 and 18, 2006 Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, NC Host: Atlantic Coast Conference Web site: www.greensborocoliseum.com Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena Jacksonville, Fla. Host: Jacksonville University t Jon M. Huntsman Center Salt Lake City, Utah Host: University of Utah Cox Arena San Diego, Calif. Host: San Diego State University Friday and Sunday, March 17 and 19, 2006 University of Dayton Arena Dayton, Ohio Host: University of Dayton Wachovia Center Philadelphia, Penn. Host: Atlantic 10 Conference Web site: www.atlantic10.org Buy March Madness Tickets Now

(Friday and Sunday, March 17 and 19, 2006 ) American Airlines Center Dallas, Texas Host: Big 12 Conference Web site: www.big12sports.com Palace of Auburn Hills Auburn Hills, Mich. Host: Oakland University   Regionals Thursday and Saturday, March 23 and 25, 2006 Georgia Dome Atlanta, Georgia Host: Georgia Institute of Technology Oakland Arena Oakland, Calif. Host: University of San Francisco Friday and Sunday, March 24 and 26, 2006 MCI Center Washington, D.C. Host: Georgetown University Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis, Minnesota Host: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Web site: www.gophersports.com Final Four Saturday and Monday, April 1 and 3, 2006 RCA Dome Indianapolis, Ind. Hosts: Butler University and Horizon League NCAA Tournament - Mens Final Four Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA Saturday 3/31/2007 TBD Buy Final Four Tickets NCAA Tournament - Mens Final Four Georgia Dome Atlanta, GA Monday 4/2/2007 TBD Buy Final Four Tickets Buy NCAA Mens Final Four: Packages Tickets NCAA Mens Final Four: Finals Tickets

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A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. Penn earned an automatic bid by winning the regular-season title of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a conference tournament. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.

Two teams played an opening-round game, popularly called the "play-in" game; the winner of that game advanced to the main draw of the tournament and plays a top seed in one of the regionals. This game has been played at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio since its inception in 2001.

This was the second year of the so-called "pod" system, in which the eight first- and second-round sites are distributed around the four regionals. Before the 2004 tournament, all teams playing at a first- or second-round site fed into the same regional tournament. Since 2004, teams have been assigned to first- and second-round sites so as to limit the early-round travel of as many teams as possible. Half of the teams in a pod advance into separate regional tournaments.

All 64 teams were seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals; the winner of the play-in game automatically gets a 16 seed. The Selection Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 65. For the first time in 2004, the ranking of the four top seeds against each other would determine the pairings in the Final Four. The top overall seed would be seeded to play the fourth overall seed in the national semifinals, should both teams advance that far.

March Madness

Disambiguation: "March Madness comes from the phrase 'Mad as a March Hare'. In England, the phrase March Madness may refer to wasteful spending at the end of a budget year. The rest of this article covers the use of the term in reference to the NCAA basketball tournament, also known as the Road to the Final Four.

March Madness is a popular term for season-ending basketball tournaments played in March, especially those conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and various state high school associations. March Madness is also a registered trademark, held jointly by the NCAA and the Illinois High School Association. The trademark has sparked a pair of high-profile courtroom battles in recent years.

March Madness or Big Dance refers to the frenzy these tournaments ignite among sports fans and, at least at the college level, sports gamblers. As it applies to college basketball, the term originally referred to the conference basketball tournaments, which occur in March just before the NCAA tournament begins, but in recent years has been used to refer to the NCAA tournament itself (the first weekend of which involves some 49 games, and which actually runs into early April). The term is now used in reference to both the men's and women's tournaments.

March Madness Brackets and Picks
During March Madness, many people enjoy predicting the outcome of the NCAA tournaments. Bracketology is the art of picking the correct teams that will be in the tournaments. The 65 (including the 2 teams who compete in the play-in game) participating teams are announced by the selection committee on Selection Sunday, although some teams are known to have made it already by winning their conference tournament (See: At-large bid, Automatic bid). The teams are seeded from 1 to 16 in 4 regional groupings around the country. The eventual winners of the four regions then meet at the Final Four in a predetermined location. The four seeds play out the tournament through single eliminaton until a National Champion is crowned.

As a tournament ritual, the winning team cuts down the net at the end of the regional championship game. Each player cuts a single strand off of the net for themselves, commemorating their victory.

Many people fill out tournament brackets in office pools. Entrance fees and legality of the pools themselves vary. Whoever accumulates the most points by accurately predicting the outcomes of the games wins the grand prize, most often pooled from the entrance fees. Points are assessed in different ways, and one example is given below:

First round: 2 point per winning team.
Second round: 4 points per winning team.
Third round: 8 points per winning team.
Fourth round: 16 points per winning team.
Fifth round: 32 points per winning team.
Sixth round: 64 points for predicting National Champion.
The point total steadily increases by round in order to reward those players who correctly picked teams that would go further in the tournament.

If at the end of the tournament two players have the same point total, a tie is often broken by the total number of total points scored in the Championship Game.

History of the Term March Madness
H. V. Porter, an official with the Illinois High School Association (and later a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) was the first person to use March Madness to commemorate a basketball tournament. A gifted writer, Porter published an essay named March Madness in 1939 and in 1942 used the phrase in a poem, Basketball Ides of March. Through the years the use of March Madness picked up steam, especially in Illinois and other parts of the Midwest. During this period the term was used almost exclusively in reference to state high school tournaments. In 1977, the IHSA published a book about its tournament titled March Madness.

Fans began connecting the term to the NCAA tournament in the early 1980s. Evidence suggests that it was CBS sportscaster Brent Musburger, who had worked for many years in Chicago prior to joining CBS, who popularized the term during the annual tournament broadcasts.

Only in the 1990s did either the IHSA or NCAA think about trademarking the term, and by that time a small television production company named Intersport, Inc., had beaten them both to the punch. IHSA eventually bought the trademark rights from Intersport and then went after big game, suing GTE Vantage, Inc., an NCAA licensee that used the name March Madness for a computer game based on the college tournament. In an historic ruling, Illinois High School Association v. GTE Vantage, Inc. (1996), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit created the concept of a "dual-use trademark", granting both the IHSA and NCAA the right to trademark the term for their own purposes.

Following the ruling, the NCAA and IHSA joined forces and created the March Madness Athletic Association to coordinate the licensing of the trademark and investigate possible trademark infringement. One such case involved a company that had obtained the domain name marchmadness.com and was using it to post information about the NCAA tournament. After protracted litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in March Madness Athletic Association v. Netfire, Inc. (2003), that March Madness was not a generic term, and ordered Netfire to relinquish the domain name.

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