The Final Four term is exclusively used in college basketball to refer to the semifinal round of the Division I Men’s or Women’s Basketball Tournament. It consists of the last four teams remaining in the playoff tournament in which two games are played to decide which two teams will head to the finals. These teams are the champions of the tournament’s four regional brackets, and the only ones remaining in the tournament’s final weekend.

A team that makes it into the Final Four, has already won its first four tournament games, and it only needs to win two more games in order to become the National Champions. After a team reaches the Final Four, it often means a great accomplishment and as a tradition it will hang a National Championship banner from the rafters of its home arena. Also here at BetLM.eu, it instantly becomes a very valuable and important team, for which their team lines and point spreads become very popular and heavily anticipated.

Although the Final Four are played in April, they are still packed of the March Madness feeling. Normally, the Men’s semifinal games are played on the first Saturday of April and the Woman’s are played on the first Sunday of the same month. The next Monday, the winning teams move on to face each other in their respective championship games. One of the most exiting betting weekends on the season

There exists the debate on who was the first to use the phrase Final Four, some will claim it was used in its beginnings to describe the final games of Indiana’s annual high school basketball tournament. The truth is the NCAA holds the trademark on the term, and they believe it was originated by a 1975 article that a Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter, named Ed Chay wrote for the Official Collegiate Basketball Guide on that year. The article established that Marquette University was one of the final four in the 1974 tournament. A few years later, the NCAA turned it into a trademark.

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