Michigan State Duke 2001 NCAA Basketball Championship Ring

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High AAA graded studded PRONG SET Cubic Zirconia stones on top. Prong set, not glued .

Solid sterling silver Or brass with gold plating.

Deep sharp engraving and 3 D letters.

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Wooden ring box included.

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The 2001 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men’s NCAA Division I college basketball for the 2000–01 NCAA Division I men’s basketball season. It began on March 13, 2001, with the play-in game. And ended with the championship game on April 2 in Minneapolis, at the Metrodome.

This tournament is the first to feature 65 teams, due to the Mountain West Conference receiving an automatic bid for the first time. This meant that 31 conferences would have automatic bids to the tournament. The NCAA decided to maintain 34 at-large bids, which necessitated a play-in game between the #64 and #65 ranked teams, with the winner playing against a #1 seed in the first round. (Another option would have been to reduce the number of at-large bids to 33, which was the option chosen for the women’s tournament.) This is also the first tournament to broadcast in high-definition,  broadcast on CBS.

This was the last tournament where the first- and second-round sites were tied to specific regionals. The “pod system” was institute for the 2002 tournament to keep as many teams as possible closer to their campus in the first two rounds. More