marshall has made the ncaa tournament five times.
marshall has made the ncaa tournament five times.
how many times has marshall made the ncaa tournament?
five
the 1985–86 blue devils finished as national runner-up in the 1986 ncaa tournament to louisville. that year, amaker recorded 81 steals, second to jim spanarkel at that point in duke history. he set the career steals record, which stood until shane battier broke it in 2001. amaker also holds the duke single-year ncaa tournament record with 18 steals in 1986, which had been a tournament record. that year, he had seven steals in two tournament games—against old dominion in the second round on march 15 and louisville in the final on march 31. this seven-steal total stood as the single-game ncaa tournament record for seven years until the 1993 ncaa tournament when darrell hawkins had eight for arkansas against and grant hill had eight for duke against . the seven steals was a championship game record that was tied by mookie blaylock in the 1988 ncaa tournament for oklahoma against kansas and was surpassed by ty lawson in the 2009 ncaa tournament for north carolina against michigan state. amaker was selected to the 1986 division i basketball tournament all-ncaa final four team. the 1986 duke team graduated four of its five starters (dawkins, mark alarie, jay bilas and david henderson), leaving amaker with an inexperienced supporting cast for his senior season. that year, amaker was a spokesman against drug and alcohol abuse as part of an ncaa-fiesta bowl drug education television program.
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in 1939, another national tournament was implemented by the national collegiate athletic association (ncaa). the location of the ncaa tournament varied from year to year, and it soon used multiple locations each year, so more fans could see games without traveling to new york. although the nit was created earlier and was more prestigious than the ncaa for many years, it ultimately lost popularity and status to the ncaa tournament. in 1950, following a double win by the 1949–50 ccny beavers men's basketball team (when the nit comprised 12 and the ncaa 8 teams), the ncaa ruled that no team could compete in both tournaments, and effectively indicated that a team eligible for the ncaa tournament should play in it. not long afterward, assisted by the 1951 scandals based in new york city, the ncaa tournament had become more prestigious than before, with conference champions and the majority of top-ranked teams competing there. the ncaa tournament eventually overtook the nit by 1960. through the 1960s and 1970s, with ucla leading the way as winner of ten ncaa tournament championships, a shift in power to teams from the west amplified the shift of attention away from the new york city-based nit. when the ncaa tournament expanded its field of teams from 25 to 32 in 1975, to 48 in 1980, to 64 in 1985, and to 68 teams in 2011, interest in the ncaa tournament increased again and again, as it comprised more and more teams, soon including all of the strongest ones. (expansion also improved the distribution of playing locations, which number roughly one-third the number of teams in the field.)
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