History of NCAA basketball

There are many great teams in the NCAA since its inception. One of the largest schools of all times is the UCLA Bruins. They are the school with the most Championships in the history of the Association. They currently have a total of 104 team championships won. The school with the second most Championships is Stanford with 97 team championships. This does not mean that these schools most total wins out of all schools, it simply means that they have won the most Championships. During the school year 2008-2009 won the Pacific 10 Conference a whopping 11 NCAA Championships. The following two conferences behind the PAC-10, the ACC and the Big Ten. They each won a total of five. There are currently a total of 87 national championships each year. Forty-four of these women and forty are men. That leaves three other Championships, which are the coed sports.

there are 32 Division I conferences included in NCAA basketball. There are in these 32 conferences 347 schools who compete for a ultimate goal: a national championship. Each Conference will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA men's Division I Basketball Championship Tournament. Many people call this tournament March Madness or The Big Dance. Coaches from all three divisions of the NCAA basketball get together to determine the rules and regulations of the NCAA men's basketball. Many of the rules imposed on the NCAA are often used in the NBA, but there are some that are unique to the NCAA. Every NCAA Game is divided into two halves which consist of every twenty minutes.

This is different than the NBA or another level of basketball, because all others play four quarters. The NCAA has a 35-second shot clock, while the NBA a 34 second shot clock. The NBA is the team only 8 seconds to cross from half Court, while the NCAA for ten seconds. The three point line in the college game is less distance than the NBA lines for three points. NCAA the three point line the same as high school, but it changed in May 2007. The distance from the three point line to the Backboard is now 20 feet nine inches. Another difference in the rules between the NBA and the NCAA is the amount of errors allowed to each player. The NBA allows each player to receive six personal errors before being forced to leave the game, while the NCAA only allow five errors. This maintains the same ratio of minutes played and the amount of errors.