The 27-foot heave gave the Wildcats the program's second title and first since 1985 — the inaugural year of the tournament's current 64-team format.Oklahoma and Syracuse also reached the Final Four in Houston. March Madness news, scores and live video from the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. For the second time in three years, the tournament came to New York City, with games played at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, the home of the In the Midwest Region, No. The Final Four was played at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. © 2020 NCAA | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Watch full replay: Villanova vs. UNC: 2016 National Championship Upsets were the story of the first round of the Tournament;NRG Stadium in Houston hosted the Final Four for the second time in 2016, Houston's third Final Four overall. View, download, and print up-to-the-minute Men's NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament brackets on ESPN.com The tournament also featured two new venues. The Wildcats shot 71.4% for the game, surpassed in Final Four games only by the The Wildcats' Championship run was the most dominant in NCAA Tournament history, with a total point differential of +124 (breaking the 2009 record set by the North Carolina Tar Heels of For 2016, the selection show on CBS was expanded into a two-hour broadcast—a move which proved unpopular with viewers due to the decreased speed at which the participating teams were unveiled. 1 seeds, while Michigan and Tulsa earn surprise spots in First Four. Kansas (South), North Carolina (East), Virginia (Midwest) and Oregon (West) are No. Of the total, 15 Division I teams were ineligible due to failing to meet Of the 32 automatic bids, 31 were given to programs that won their Eight teams—the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams—played in the First Four (the successor to what had been popularly known as "The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2016 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's automatic bid:During the Final Four round, regardless of the seeds of the participating teams, the champion of the top overall top seed's region (Kansas's South Region) plays against the champion of the fourth-ranked top seed's region (Oregon's West Region), and the champion of the second overall top seed's region (North Carolina's East Region) plays against the champion of the third-ranked top seed's region (Virginia's Midwest Region). The 2016 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament was played between March and April 2016, with the Final Four played April 3 & 5. 1988 ncaa, 1976 ncaa, 1940 ncaa, 1950 ncaa, 1981 ncaa Play Index Player Season Finder , Player Game Finder , NCAA Tournament Player Game Finder , Matchup Finder , NCAA Tournament Matchup Finder In addition to the 31 automatic bids, the standard 37 at-large bids will join the automatic bids in the 2016 Field of 68.

The Villanova–Oklahoma result was not only the most one-sided in the tournament so far, but also in the history of the men's Final Four. These issues were exacerbated by a The games were streamed on the NCAA March Madness Live website and app, with streams for Turner games also available on the Bleacher Report website and Team Stream app, and CBS games available on the CBS Sports website and app.
It was also the first championship by a school without a Out of 336 eligible Division I teams, 68 participate in the tournament. Villanova won its second national championship in 2016, edging North Carolina on a 3-pointer from Kris Jenkins as time expired.Jenkins is just the second player to end a title game on a buzzer-beater in NCAA tournament history, joining North Carolina State's Lorenzo Charles (1983).