The 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination championship of 68 teams to find out the men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national winner for its 2017–18 season. The 80th annual edition of this tournament started on March 13, 2018, and reasoned with the championship game on April 2 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Throughout the first round, UMBC became the initial 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed from the men’s championship by defeating Virginia 74–54. [1][2] For the first time in tournament history, not one of the four top seeded teams in one area (the South) advanced to the Sweet 16. Also, the tournament featured the very first regional final matchup of a 9-seed (Kansas State) and an 11-seed (Loyola-Chicago).
Villanova, Michigan, Kansas, and Loyola-Chicago, the”Cinderella group” of the tournament, reached the Final Four. Villanova defeated Michigan in the championship game, 79–62.
Atlantic Sun Conference winner Lipscomb made its NCAA tournament debut.
The 2018 championship was the first time since 1978 that not one of the six Division I college basketball-playing schools based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area — American, Georgetown, George Mason, George Washington, Howard, and Maryland — created the NCAA Championship.

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