2000 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

2000 NCAA Men's Division I
Basketball Tournament
	2000 Final Four logo
Season	1999–00
Teams	64
Finals site	RCA Dome; Indianapolis, Indiana
Champions	Michigan State (2nd title, 2nd title game)
Runner-up	Florida (1st title game,; 2nd Final Four)
Semifinalists	North Carolina (15th Final Four); Wisconsin (2nd Final Four);
Winning coach	Tom Izzo (1st title)
MOP	Mateen Cleaves (Michigan State)
Attendance	624,777
Top scorer	Morris Peterson Michigan State; (105 points)
NCAA Men's Division I Tournaments
«1999	2001»

The 2000 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16, 2000, and ended with the championship game on April 3 in Indianapolis, Indiana at the RCA Dome. A total of 63 games were played.

Due to a string of upsets throughout the tournament, only one top-four seed advanced to the Final Four. That was Michigan State, who finished the season as the #1 team in the nation and was given the top seed in the Midwest Region and the top overall seed. The highest seeded of the other three Final Four teams was Florida, who won the East Region as the fifth seed. Two eight-seeds made the Final Four, with Wisconsin and North Carolina rounding the bracket out. Wisconsin won the West Region while North Carolina won the South Region, with both regions seeing their top three seeds eliminated during the first weekend of play.

Michigan State won their first national championship since 1979 by defeating Florida 89-76 in the final game. Mateen Cleaves of Michigan State was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, while Morris Peterson was its leading scorer.

Despite the string of upsets, no seed lower than 11 won a game in the tournament. The only 11 seed to win was Pepperdine, which defeated Indiana in the East Region's first round in what turned out to be Bob Knight's last game coaching the Hoosiers before his firing that offseason. Also, two teams that qualified as 10 seeds advanced to the Sweet Sixteen as Seton Hall in the East and Gonzaga in the West both advanced.

Because of the upsets, the Elite Eight consisted of one top seed (Michigan State), one second seed (Iowa State), one third seed (Oklahoma State), one fifth seed (Florida), one sixth seed (Purdue), one seventh seed (Tulsa), and two eighth seeds (Wisconsin and North Carolina).

Locations

Tucson

Salt Lake City

Minneapolis

Cleveland

Nashville

Birmingham

Winston-Salem

Buffalo

2000 first and second rounds

Albuquerque

Austin

Auburn Hills

Syracuse

Indianapolis

2000 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red)

Teams

East Regional - Syracuse
Seed	School	Coach	Conference	Record	Bid Type
#1	Duke	Mike Krzyzewski	ACC	27-4	Automatic
#2	Temple	John Chaney	Atlantic 10	26-5	Automatic
#3	Oklahoma State	Eddie Sutton	Big 12	24-6	At-Large
#4	Illinois	Lon Kruger	Big Ten	21-9	At-Large
#5	Florida	Billy Donovan	SEC	24-7	At-Large
#6	Indiana	Bob Knight	Big Ten	20-8	At-Large
#7	Oregon	Ernie Kent	Pac-10	22-7	At-Large
#8	Kansas	Roy Williams	Big 12	23-9	At-Large
#9	DePaul	Pat Kennedy	Conference USA	21-10	At-Large
#10	Seton Hall	Tommy Amaker	Big East	20-9	At-Large
#11	Pepperdine	Jan van Breda Kolff	West Coast	24-8	At-Large
#12	Butler	Barry Collier	MCC	23-7	Automatic
#13	Penn	Fran Dunphy	Ivy League	21-7	Automatic
#14	Hofstra	Jay Wright	America East	24-6	Automatic
#15	Lafayette	Fran O'Hanlon	Patriot League	24-6	Automatic
#16	Lamar	Mike Deane	Southland	15-15	Automatic

South Regional - Austin
Seed	School	Coach	Conference	Record	Bid Type
#1	Stanford	Mike Montgomery	Pac-10	26-3	At-Large
#2	Cincinnati	Bob Huggins	Conference USA	28-3	At-Large
#3	Ohio State	Jim O'Brien	Big Ten	22-6	At-Large
#4	Tennessee	Jerry Green	SEC	24-6	At-Large
#5	Connecticut	Jim Calhoun	Big East	24-9	At-Large
#6	Miami (FL)	Leonard Hamilton	Big East	21-10	At-Large
#7	Tulsa	Bill Self	WAC	29-4	At-Large
#8	North Carolina	Bill Guthridge	ACC	18-13	At-Large
#9	Missouri	Quin Snyder	Big 12	18-12	At-Large
#10	UNLV	Bill Bayno	Mountain West	20-9	At-Large
#11	Arkansas	Nolan Richardson	SEC	19-14	Automatic
#12	Utah State	Stew Morrill	Big West	28-5	Automatic
#13	Louisiana-Lafayette	Jessie Evans	Sun Belt	25-8	Automatic
#14	Appalachian State	Buzz Peterson	Southern	23-8	Automatic
#15	UNC-Wilmington	Jerry Wainwright	CAA	18-12	Automatic
#16	South Carolina State	Cy Alexander	MEAC	20-13	Automatic

Midwest Regional - Auburn Hills
Seed	School	Coach	Conference	Record	Bid Type
#1	Michigan State	Tom Izzo	Big Ten	26-7	Automatic
#2	Iowa State	Larry Eustachy	Big 12	29-4	Automatic
#3	Maryland	Gary Williams	ACC	24-9	At-Large
#4	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Big East	24-5	At-Large
#5	Kentucky	Tubby Smith	SEC	22-9	At-Large
#6	UCLA	Steve Lavin	Pac-10	19-11	At-Large
#7	Auburn	Cliff Ellis	SEC	23-9	At-Large
#8	Utah	Rick Majerus	Mountain West	22-8	At-Large
#9	Saint Louis	Lorenzo Romar	Conference USA	19-13	Automatic
#10	Creighton	Dana Altman	Missouri Valley	23-9	Automatic
#11	Ball State	Ray McCallum	Mid-American	22-8	Automatic
#12	St. Bonaventure	Jim Baron	Atlantic 10	21-9	At-Large
#13	Samford	Jimmy Tillette	TAAC	21-10	Automatic
#14	Iona	Jeff Ruland	MAAC	20-10	Automatic
#15	Central Connecticut State	Howie Dickenman	NEC	25-5	Automatic
#16	Valparaiso	Homer Drew	Mid-Continent	19-12	Automatic

West Regional - Albuquerque
Seed	School	Coach	Conference	Record	Bid Type
#1	Arizona	Lute Olson	Pac-10	26-6	Automatic
#2	St. John's	Mike Jarvis	Big East	24-7	Automatic
#3	Oklahoma	Kelvin Sampson	Big 12	26-6	At-Large
#4	LSU	John Brady	SEC	26-5	At-Large
#5	Texas	Rick Barnes	Big 12	23-8	At-Large
#6	Purdue	Gene Keady	Big Ten	21-9	At-Large
#7	Louisville	Denny Crum	Conference USA	19-11	At-Large
#8	Wisconsin	Dick Bennett	Big Ten	18-13	At-Large
#9	Fresno State	Jerry Tarkanian	WAC	24-9	At-Large
#10	Gonzaga	Mark Few	West Coast	24-8	Automatic
#11	Dayton	Oliver Purnell	Atlantic 10	22-8	At-Large
#12	Indiana State	Royce Waltman	Missouri Valley	22-9	At-Large
#13	Southeast Missouri State	Gary Garner	Ohio Valley	22-6	Automatic
#14	Winthrop	Gregg Marshall	Big South	21-8	Automatic
#15	Northern Arizona	Mike Adras	Big Sky	20-10	Automatic
#16	Jackson State	Andy Stoglin	SWAC	17-15	Automatic

Bids by conference

Bids by Conference
Bids	Conference(s)
6	Big Ten, Big 12, SEC
5	Big East
4	C-USA, Pac-10
3	ACC, Atlantic 10
2	Mountain West, Missouri Valley, WAC, WCC
1	19 others

Final Four

At RCA Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana

National Semifinals

April 1, Michigan State (M1) 53, Wisconsin (W8) 41

In the first half it appeared that the Cinderella run of the Wisconsin Badgers had a great chance of continuing. Wisconsin's slow down offense, smothering defense tempo held the game to a Michigan State Spartans 19-17 lead. However, the only number one seed left in the tournament opened the second half with a 13-2 run, including 10 points from senior Morris Peterson. After the run, Michigan State coasted home against Wisconsin's limited offense.^[1]
- Florida (E5) 71, North Carolina (S8) 59
Despite being behind 18-3 to start the game and trailing at halftime, the North Carolina Tar Heels took control of the early minutes of the second half, and managed to sneak ahead 48-42 on standout freshman guard Joseph Forte's second consecutive three-pointer with 15:44 to play. However, the Florida Gators answered back with a 9-0 run to give them the lead for good. The Gators held the Tar Heels to just six points over a 9½ minute span to put them in great shape. Foul trouble ultimately doomed the Tar Heels, and the Gators advanced to their first ever National Championship game.^[2]

Championship Game

April 3, 2000
- Michigan State (M1) 89, Florida (E5) 76
Michigan State senior Mateen Cleaves limped his way to the Most Outstanding Player (MOP) of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Cleaves sprained his ankle with 16:18 to play in the 2nd half, and this was after Florida had trimmed Michigan State's double digit halftime lead to 50-44. Cleaves returned about four minutes later, and immediately helped lead the Spartans on a 16-6 run to put the game out of reach. The lone top-seed remaining would bring order to a tournament filled with upsets as they salted away the victory for the school's second National Championship (1979). Michigan State coach Tom Izzo earned his first title, from his second straight final four appearance. Morris Peterson led the Spartans with 21 points.^[3]

Bracket

East Regional - Syracuse, New York

First round			Quarter-finals			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals

1	Duke	82

16	Lamar	55
			1	Duke	69
Winston-Salem
			8	Kansas	64
8	Kansas	81

9	DePaul	77*
						1	Duke	78

						5	Florida	87
5	Florida	69

12	Butler	68*
			5	Florida	93
Winston-Salem
			4	Illinois	76
4	Illinois	68

13	Pennsylvania	58
									5	Florida	77

									3	Oklahoma State	65
6	Indiana	57

11	Pepperdine	77
			11	Pepperdine	67
Buffalo
			3	Oklahoma State	75
3	Oklahoma State	86

14	Hofstra	66
						3	Oklahoma State	68

						10	Seton Hall	66
7	Oregon	71*

10	Seton Hall	72
			10	Seton Hall	67
Buffalo
			2	Temple	65*
2	Temple	73

15	Lafayette	47

South Regional - Austin, Texas

First round			Quarter-finals			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals

1	Stanford	84

16	South Carolina St	65
			1	Stanford	53
Birmingham
			8	North Carolina	60
8	North Carolina	84

9	Missouri	70
						8	North Carolina	74

						4	Tennessee	69
5	Connecticut	75

12	Utah St	67
			5	Connecticut	51
Birmingham
			4	Tennessee	65
4	Tennessee	63

13	Louisiana-Lafayette	58
									8	North Carolina	59

									7	Tulsa	55
6	Miami-FL	75

11	Arkansas	71
			6	Miami-FL	75
Nashville
			3	Ohio St	62
3	Ohio St	87

14	Appalachian St	61
						6	Miami-FL	71

						7	Tulsa	80
7	Tulsa	89

10	UNLV	62
			7	Tulsa	69
Nashville
			2	Cincinnati	61
2	Cincinnati	64

15	UNC-Wilmington	47

Midwest Regional - Auburn Hills, Michigan

First round			Quarter-finals			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals

1	Michigan State	65

16	Valparaiso	38
			1	Michigan State	73
Cleveland
			8	Utah	61
8	Utah	48

9	St. Louis	45
						1	Michigan State	75

						4	Syracuse	58
5	Kentucky	85

12	St. Bonaventure	80**
			5	Kentucky	50
Cleveland
			4	Syracuse	52
4	Syracuse	79

13	Samford	65
									1	Michigan State	75

									2	Iowa State	64
6	UCLA	65

11	Ball State	57
			6	UCLA	105
Minneapolis
			3	Maryland	70
3	Maryland	74

14	Iona	59
						6	UCLA	56

						2	Iowa State	80
7	Auburn	72

10	Creighton	69
			7	Auburn	60
Minneapolis
			2	Iowa State	79
2	Iowa State	88

15	Central Connecticut St	78

West Regional - Albuquerque, New Mexico

First round			Quarter-finals			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals

1	Arizona	71

16	Jackson St.	47
			1	Arizona	59
Salt Lake City
			8	Wisconsin	66
8	Wisconsin	66

9	Fresno St.	56
						8	Wisconsin	61

						4	LSU	48
5	Texas	77

12	Indiana St.	61
			5	Texas	67
Salt Lake City
			4	LSU	72
4	LSU	64

13	Southeast Missouri St.	61
									8	Wisconsin	64

									6	Purdue	60
6	Purdue	62

11	Dayton	61
			6	Purdue	66
Tucson
			3	Oklahoma	62
3	Oklahoma	74

14	Winthrop	50
						6	Purdue	75

						10	Gonzaga	66
7	Louisville	66

10	Gonzaga	77
			10	Gonzaga	82
Tucson
			2	St John's	76
2	St John's	61

15	Northern Arizona	56

Final Four at Indianapolis, Indiana

National Semifinals			National Championship Game


E5	Florida	71

S8	North Carolina	59
			E5	Florida	76

			M1	Michigan State	89
M1	Michigan State	53

W8	Wisconsin	41

Television

Jim Nantz and Billy Packer - 1st & 2nd Round at Winston-Salem, NC; East Regional at Syracuse, NY; Final Four at Indianapolis, IN
Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery Midwest Regional at Auburn Hills, MI
Dick Enberg and James Worthy - 1st & 2nd Round at Birmingham, AL; South Regional at Austin, TX
Gus Johnson and Dan Bonner - 1st & 2nd Round at Tucson, AZ; West Regional at Albuquerque, NM
Kevin Harlan and Jon Sundvold
Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel
Tim Brando and Rolando Blackman
Craig Bolerjack and Barry Booker - 1st & 2nd Round at Salt Lake City, UT

Radio

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Local Radio

Seed	Teams	Flagship station	Play-by-play announcer	Color analyst(s)
E5	Florida	WRUF–AM (Florida)	Mick Hubert	Mark Wise
S8	North Carolina	WCHL–AM (North Carolina)	Woody Durham	Mick Mixon
M1	Michigan State	WJIM–AM/WJIM-FM (Michigan State)	Mark Champion	Gus Ganakas
W8	Wisconsin	WIBA–AM/WOLX-FM (Wisconsin)	Matt Lepay	Mike Lucas

References

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2000 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

Contents

Locations

First and Second Rounds

Regionals

Final Four

Teams

Bids by conference

Final Four

National Semifinals

Championship Game

Bracket

East Regional - Syracuse, New York

South Regional - Austin, Texas

Midwest Regional - Auburn Hills, Michigan

West Regional - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Final Four at Indianapolis, Indiana

Television

Radio

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