The 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national winner for its 2017–18 year old. The 80th annual edition of this championship began on March 13, 2018, and concluded with the championship game on April 2 in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Throughout the first round, UMBC became the initial 16-seed to conquer a 1-seed from the men’s tournament by defeating Virginia 74–54. [1][2] For the first time in tournament history, not one of the four top seeded teams in one region (the South) advanced to the Sweet 16. Also, the tournament featured the very first regional final matchup of a 9-seed (Kansas State) and an 11-seed (Loyola-Chicago).
Villanova, Michigan, Kansas, and Loyola-Chicago, the»Cinderella group» of this tournament, reached the Final Four. Villanova defeated Michigan in the championship game, 79–62.
Atlantic Sun Conference winner Lipscomb created its NCAA tournament debut.
The 2018 tournament was the first time since 1978 that none of the six Division I college basketball-playing schools located in the Washington, DC metropolitan region — American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard, and Maryland — made the NCAA Championship.

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