west virginia won the first men's ncaa tournament.
who won the first men's ncaa tournament?
west virginia
the 2015–16 season was very noteworthy, with the ducks emerging victorious in the 2015–16 pac-12 conference tournament. this led to the ducks being the top seed in the west regional of the 2015-2016 ncaa tournament, its first ever top seeding in the ncaa tournament. the ducks defeated holy cross and saint joseph's in the first two rounds of the ncaa tournament to advance to the sweet 16 in anaheim, where they defeated the number four seed and defending national champion duke blue devils, 82–68, to advance to the elite 8. the following year, the ducks would go on to be pac-12 conference co-champions with arizona, whom they lost to in the championship game of the pac-12 tournament. in that year's ncaa tournament the ducks would advance all the way to the final four, losing to the university of north carolina tar heels men's basketball team by one point.
oregon ducks men's basketball
the first ncaa tournament was organized by the national association of basketball coaches. oregon won the inaugural tournament, defeating ohio state 46–33 in the first championship game. before the 1941 tournament, control of the event was given to the ncaa. in the early years of the tournament, it was considered less important than the national invitation tournament (nit), a new york city-based event. teams were able to compete in both events in the same year, and three of those that did so—utah in 1944, kentucky in 1949, and city college of new york (ccny) in 1950—won the ncaa tournament. the 1949–50 ccny team won both tournaments (defeating bradley in both finals), and is the only college basketball team to accomplish this feat. by the mid-1950s, the ncaa tournament became the more prestigious of the two events, and in 1971 the ncaa barred universities from playing in other tournaments, such as the nit, if they were invited to the ncaa tournament. the 2013 championship won by louisville was the first men's basketball national title to ever be vacated by the ncaa after the school and its coach at the time, rick pitino, were implicated in a 2015 sex scandal involving recruits.
list of ncaa division i men's basketball champions