The Big Dance Turns 78
The first year of the NCAA basketball tournament was in 1939 and featured only 8 teams. The idea for the tournament was the brainchild of Ohio State Legend Harold Olsen, who saw his Buckeyes’ lose in the first ever National Championship game by a final score of 33-46. The opponent, the University of Oregon Webfoots, named after a group of settlers who recently migrated from Massachusetts, won the game and so commenced the...