How March Madness started: History of the NCAA basketball tournament – The first college basketball tournament was played in 1939. It only included eight teams and it didn’t even determine the national champion — the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) did. Over the years, the NCAA Tournament grew, adding more and more teams and eventually overtaking the NIT as the national champion decider. Read more about the history here.

Source: AOL

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