2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season, Postseason, Gridiron Classic
The Gridiron Classic is an annual game between the champions of the Northeast Conference and the Pioneer Football League that has been held since December 2006.


2007 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
The 2007 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 27th women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team in the United States. The North Carolina Tar Heels won their fifth championship, defeating the Penn State Nittany Lions in the final. The semifinals and championship were hosted by the University of Maryland at Maryland Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex in College Park, Maryland.


2007 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game
The 2007 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens. It was played on December 14, 2007, at Finley Stadium, home field of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The culminating game of the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season, it was won by Appalachian State, 49–21.


2007 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 2007 FCS Playoffs, which began with a 16-team bracket.


2007 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, Appalachian State Mountaineers
Appalachian State's first game of the 2007 season was a 34–32 upset win over Michigan, who were the No. 5 ranked team in FBS at the time. Appalachian State went on to finish their regular season with a 9–2 record (5–2 in conference). The Mountaineers defeated James Madison, Eastern Washington, and Richmond to reach the final. This was Appalachian State's third consecutive appearance in the championship game, having won the title in both 2005 and 2006.


2007 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game, Teams, Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
Delaware finished their regular season with an 8–3 record (5–3 in conference). The Fightin' Blue Hens defeated Delaware State, top-seed Northern Iowa, and fourth-seed Southern Illinois to reach the final.


2007 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 2007 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships was the 43rd NCAA Men's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 26th NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas near the campus of the host school, the University of Arkansas. In total, thirty-two different men's and women's indoor track and field events were contested from March 9 to March 10, 2007.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion for the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 2007 National Title game was played at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia between the 2007 South Regional Champions, No. 1-seeded Ohio State and the 2007 Midwest Regional Champions, No. 1-seeded Florida.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
For the second time in three years, the National Title Game was played between two No. 1 seeds. This game was a rematch of the game at O'Connell Center on December 23, 2006, which was won by Florida who defeated Ohio State in an 86–60 victory. This game featured the same two teams that participated in the 2007 BCS National Championship Game marking the first time that the same two schools were competing for the football and basketball national championships which saw Florida beat Ohio State 41–14 to be the national champions of college football.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Ohio State
Ohio State entered the 2007 NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed in the South Region. In the first round, Greg Oden had a double-double to beat Central Connecticut State 78–57. In the second round, Ohio State overcame a late deficit for a 78–71 overtime win over Xavier. In the Sweet 16, Oden blocked a last second shot by Ramar Smith to beat Tennessee 85–84. In the Elite Eight of the 2007 NCAA Tournament, Ohio State used Oden's 17 points to beat Memphis 92–76 for a trip to the 2007 Final Four. In the Final Four, Oden's 13 points were six points short of Roy Hibbert's 19 points but it was Ohio State who got the victory beating Georgetown 67–60 for a trip to the 2007 National Championship Game.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Participants, Florida
Florida entered the 2007 NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region. In the first round, Florida played a  dominant second half against Jackson State outscoring them 71–34 in the 2nd half to take a 112–69 win. In the second round, Florida beat Purdue 74–67 to stay alive in their quest for a 2nd straight national title. In the Sweet 16, Florida took another step closer to becoming the first team to win back-to-back championships since the 1991–92 Duke Blue Devils with a 65–57 win over Butler. In the Elite Eight, Florida beat Oregon 85–77 to advance to the 2007 Final Four. In the 2007 Final Four, Florida beat UCLA 76–66 to advance to the 2007 National Title Game.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game Summary
In a rematch of a regular season meeting which had been won 86–60 by Florida in Gainesville, the Gators survived 25 points and 12 rebounds from Buckeyes center Greg Oden with stellar play from guards Lee Humphrey and Taurean Green with inside contributions coming from Al Horford (18 points) and tourney Most Outstanding Player Corey Brewer. Billy Donovan became the third-youngest coach (at age 41) to win two titles. Only Bob Knight (at Indiana) and San Francisco's Phil Woolpert both won two titles at the age of 40.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game Summary
The Gators are the first team ever to hold the NCAA Division I college football and basketball titles in the same academic year (2006–07) and calendar year (2006 and 2007). Coincidentally, Florida also beat Ohio State (by a score of 41–14) in the College Football Championship, the first time in college sports history that identical match-ups and results have occurred in both football and basketball championships. This was also the first time in NCAA D-I men's basketball history that exactly the same starting five were able to win back-to-back titles (Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer, Lee Humphrey, Al Horford, Taurean Green). Florida's Lee Humphrey also set the all-time NCAA Tournament record for three-point field goals made with 47. Humphrey surpassed Bobby Hurley's record of 42.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball season. Team selections were announced on March 11, 2007, and the tournament began on March 13, 2007, with the Opening round game and concluded with the championship game on April 2 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Both of the finalists from the year before returned to the Final Four as Florida, who returned its entire starting lineup from the year before, and UCLA advanced. They were joined in the Final Four by Ohio State, who was making its first appearance since their 1999 appearance (later vacated), and Georgetown, appearing for the first time since their national runner-up finish in 1985.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Florida defeated Ohio State in the championship 84–75 to repeat as national champions. This marked the second time in 2007 that a Florida team beat an Ohio State team to win a national championship, as Florida's football team won the BCS National Championship Game over Ohio State in January. Florida's Corey Brewer was named the Most Outstanding Player. Florida became the first team to repeat since Duke in 1992. As of 2021, the 2007 Gators are the last team to repeat as national champions.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
This tournament was significant because it had many fewer upsets than in previous years. There were only 12 games in which a lower-seeded team defeated a higher-seeded team, and eight of these "upsets" were by teams ranked only one seed lower than their opponent. No. 7-seed UNLV was the lowest-seeded team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. This marked the second time since the tournament expanded to at least 64 teams that no team seeded No. 8 or lower played in the Sweet Sixteen; the other instance was in 1995. Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi made their first NCAA appearance.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
This was the first Tournament since 2003 that regional sites were designated as "East", "West", "South", and "Midwest", rather than by the names of the host cities.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Of that total, 30 of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which did not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion, Penn. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
The initial game on March 13 officially named the Opening Round game, but popularly called the "play-in game", had Niagara, winner of the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament, facing Florida A&M, who won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament, for a chance to play top seed Kansas in the First Round of the Tournament. Niagara defeated Florida A&M, 77–69, to advance to play Kansas.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Tournament procedure
All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 2007 tournament:


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
This marked the second time the Final Four was held at the Georgia Dome, and the third Final Four overall in Atlanta. There was only one new venue in the 2007 tournament. For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the tournament returned to New Orleans, but for the first time since 1942 it was not at the Louisiana Superdome. Instead it was held at the New Orleans Arena, the Superdome's neighbor and home to the New Orleans Pelicans, partially due to ongoing renovations at the Superdome following the damage inflicted by Katrina.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
2007 marked the final appearances in the tournament of the Meadowlands Arena and the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. While it is possible for the LJVMC to host again, the Meadowlands Arena was closed in 2015 to public use, with games in the New York metropolitan area moving to the Barclays Center, the Prudential Center and Madison Square Garden in recent years.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams
Team names are those listed on the NCAA's scoreboard for the play-in game and first round matchups. Only UCLA, UNLV, and USC (Southern California) use abbreviations; all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation "A&M".


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams
Here are the top seeded teams in each regional and their overall seeds.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries
Unless otherwise specified, all games were on CBS, except for the play-in game, which aired on ESPN and two additional games. Those games were broadcast on CSTV except in the natural areas of the teams involved, as those were broadcast on CBS. Times listed are US EDT (UTC−4).


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries
Team names are those listed on the NCAA's scoreboard for the play-in game and first-round matchups. Only UNLV and UCLA use abbreviations; all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation "A&M".


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, First round upsets, close games, and other facts
The two major upsets of the first round were #11 Virginia Commonwealth's win over #6 Duke (West Regional), and #11 Winthrop's win over #6 Notre Dame (Midwest Regional). VCU beat Duke, 79-77, on a shot by Eric Maynor with 1.8 seconds left, sending Duke out for the first time in the first round since 1996. Winthrop's highly touted offense built a 21-point second-half lead before surviving a late Notre Dame rally to win, 74-64, earning their first tournament victory in school history.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, First round upsets, close games, and other facts
The only overtime game of the first round was in the South Regional, between #7 Nevada and #10 Creighton, ending 77-71 in favor of the Nevada Wolf Pack. Other close games included #3 Oregon squeaking by #14 Miami (Ohio), 58-56 (Midwest Regional), #5 Virginia Tech's win over #12 Illinois 54-52 (West Regional), and #9 Xavier's win over #8 BYU, 79-77 (South Regional). The highest score accumulated by a team in the 2007 tournament went to Tennessee's 121 points over Long Beach State (South Regional), which set a school record.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, First round upsets, close games, and other facts
This was the first year since 1993 that a #10 seed did not advance to the second round. It was also only the second time in the last 17 years that a #12 seed failed to advance against a #5 seed. #15 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi had leads of 10-0 and 25-7 in the first half against the #2 Wisconsin Badgers but Wisconsin prevailed 76-63.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, Second round upsets, close games, and other facts
The two biggest upsets of the second round were #6 Vanderbilt's win over #3 Washington State (East Regional) and #7 UNLV's win over #2 Wisconsin (Midwest Regional). Vanderbilt won a heart-stopper, 78-74, in double overtime. UNLV won by six points, 74-68, in their biggest win since the 1990s. Other overtime games included #1 Ohio State's 78-71 win over #9 Xavier (South Regional) and #3 Pittsburgh's 84-79 overtime victory over #11 Virginia Commonwealth (West Regional).


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, Second round upsets, close games, and other facts
Ohio State's Ron Lewis hit a three-pointer with two seconds remaining to force overtime against Xavier, and Pittsburgh fought Virginia Commonwealth's comeback from 19 points down to come up with the victory. The Ohio State win over Xavier had a controversial ending as prior to Lewis's game-tying shot, Buckeye Greg Oden shoved a Xavier player, Justin Cage, in the back and onto the floor. Had an intentional foul been called, Xavier would have been awarded two foul shots and ball possession. Instead, a regular personal foul was called.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, Second round upsets, close games, and other facts
Subsequently, Xavier missed the second free throw, allowing Lewis to shoot the game-tying 3. Other close games were #3 Texas A&M winning over #6 Louisville, 72-69 (South Regional); #5 Butler's victory over #4 Maryland, 62-59 (Midwest Regional); and #5 Tennessee defeating #4 Virginia, 77-74 (South Regional). This tournament marked the first time since 1995 that a double-digit seeded team did not advance to the Sweet 16 (Midwest #7 seed UNLV was the lowest team in the Sweet 16).


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Opening rounds, Regional Semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) upsets, close games, other facts
No upsets or overtime games occurred in this round of the tournament, although there were several very close games. In the South Region, #2 Memphis barely defeated #3 Texas A&M as Aggie senior Acie Law, after a solid performance for most of the game, missed an open layup with under a minute left. A controversial clock situation with 3.1 seconds left added to the emotion. #1 Ohio State sneaked past #5 Tennessee, coming back from 20 points down to win, 85-84, with a blocked shot by Buckeye Greg Oden with 0.2 seconds left. In the East Region, #2 Georgetown won possibly the most controversial game of the tournament, beating #6 Vanderbilt, 66-65, on a shot by Jeff Green with 2.5 seconds left. The play was controversial as Green appeared to travel, despite fans and analysts claiming it was a clean drop step.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
The seeds of the Elite Eight teams were four #1s, three #2s, and one #3. This was the lowest combination of seeds in an Elite Eight since seeding began in the NCAA Tournament.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
Although Ohio State star freshman Greg Oden got into early foul trouble, a close game at the half turned into a blowout as the Buckeyes went on a 20-8 run to win. Game leaders were Memphis' Jeremy Hunt with 26 points, and Robert Dozier with 11 rebounds. This ended Memphis' 25-game win streak, previously the longest in the nation.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
After a tight first-half, the Bruins slowly put away the top-seeded Jayhawks in the second-half using their 2006 national championship game experience, along with a strong defense. Shooting percentage was a key factor in the game as UCLA shot 53% to Kansas's 41%. UCLA's Arron Afflalo led all scorers with 24 points while Brandon Rush of Kansas led the Jayhawks with 18. UCLA and Kansas combined for 35 steals, breaking the previous tournament record of 28.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
North Carolina led for most of the game and the entire second half, but Georgetown rallied from ten points down with six minutes remaining to force overtime. The Tar Heels were outscored 15-3 in the extra session, missing 22 of their final 23 field goal attempts. Georgetown reached its first Final Four since 1985, when John Thompson III's father John Thompson (Jr.) was coach—and Thompson III became the first coach to succeed his father in coaching a team to the Final Four.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
With North Carolina's loss in the regional final, this marked the first time since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams that no ACC team made it to the Final Four for two consecutive years. The last time that no ACC team made it to the Final Four in consecutive years was in 1979 and 1980.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
In what was actually a close game for most of regulation, Florida's three-point shots, along with a 20-9 run in the second half, amounted to a Gator win. Florida player Lee Humphrey led his team with seven three-pointers, and added up a total of 23 points. In one of the more odd moments of the tournament, Humphrey shot a three-pointer through the side of the net, causing a 10-minute delay as the net was repaired.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four
All of the 2007 Final Four teams had participated in the 2006 tournament. Ohio State was knocked out in the second round by Georgetown, who would lose to Florida in the Minneapolis Regional Semifinals. Florida would go on to defeat UCLA in the championship game. The four teams were all previous champions as well — Ohio State (1960), Georgetown (1984), UCLA (several), and Florida (2006) — marking the fourth time that all of the Final Four teams were past champions (joining 1993, 1995 and 1998 Final Fours). Also, it was the first time in nine years that no two Final Four teams were from the same conference.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, Final Four
In the beginning, Florida struggled with UCLA's swarming defense, but ten minutes into the game they took a double-digit lead, and Lee Humphrey, in a performance reminiscent of the previous year's national title game, blew the game open in the second half hitting three consecutive three-pointers. Humphrey's shots proved too much to overcome and UCLA never threatened in the second half.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship
A rematch of a regular season meeting, won 86-60 by Florida in Gainesville, The Gators survived 25 points and 12 rebounds from Buckeyes center Greg Oden with stellar play from guards Lee Humphrey and Taurean Green with inside contributions coming from Al Horford (18 points) and tourney Most Outstanding Player Corey Brewer. Billy Donovan became the third-youngest coach (at age 41) to win two titles. Only Bob Knight (at Indiana) and San Francisco's Phil Woolpert both won two titles at the age of 40.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Game summaries, National Championship
The Gators are the first team ever to hold the NCAA Division I college football and basketball titles in the same academic year (2006–07) and calendar year (2006 and 2007). Coincidentally, Florida also beat Ohio State (by a score of 41-14) in the College Football Championship, the first time in college sports history that identical matchups and results have occurred in both football and basketball championships. This was also the first time in NCAA D-I men's basketball history that exactly the same starting five were able to win back-to-back titles (Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer, Lee Humphrey, Al Horford, Taurean Green). Florida's Lee Humphrey also set the all-time NCAA Tournament record for three-point field goals made with 47. Humphrey surpassed Bobby Hurley's record of 42.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
The America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big West, Ivy, MEAC, Mid-American, Mid-Continent, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Sun Belt, SWAC, and WCC all went 0-1.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
* The MAAC went 1-1 since Niagara won the Play-in Game.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television, CBS Sports
For the 26th consecutive year, CBS Sports telecast the tournament, and for the 17th consecutive year, broadcast every game from the first round to the championship, with Jim Nantz and Billy Packer calling the Final Four. Nantz was in a stretch in which he would broadcast Super Bowl XLI, the Final Four, and The Masters golf tournament all in a 10-week period.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television, CBS Sports
Greg Gumbel once again served as the studio host, joined by analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television, Other television
CSTV, owned by CBS, telecast the George Washington-Vanderbilt and the Virginia-Albany contests (in addition to the local CBS affiliates nearest to the participating teams in those games, and those using their digital subchannels for simulcasting). Those games served as the first-ever live tourney telecasts on CSTV, which also provided a highlights show after each day of competition.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television, Other television
For the first three rounds of the tournament, games were also shown on DirecTV through the Mega March Madness pay-per-view service and on , a broadband Internet video streaming service that was a joint venture between CBS SportsLine (now known as CBSSports.com) and the NCAA.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Television, Other television
The opening round game was broadcast on ESPN for the sixth consecutive year.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Media, Radio
Westwood One once again had the live radio coverage. Kevin Harlan once again served as the play-by-play man at the Final Four with Bill Raftery and John Thompson on color. Thompson the elder is the father of current Georgetown coach John Thompson III.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Basketball courts
During the first- and second-round games in New Orleans, as part of the continuing recovery process from Hurricane Katrina, the NCAA allowed an additional floor decal recognizing the work of Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge and the NCAA Home Team program through the subregional's host institution, Tulane University. This marked the first time that a logo other than that of the NCAA or an NCAA member school has been allowed at an NCAA-sanctioned championship event.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Basketball courts
In addition, Tulane student athletes and athletic department personnel built a new house, valued at $75,000 (US), which was paid for by the NCAA and their corporate partner Lowe's, on Girod Street between the New Orleans Arena, site of the games, and the Louisiana Superdome, which has hosted four Final Fours.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Basketball courts
Also, for the first time, custom-made, identical courts were used at all four regional sites in San Jose, St. Louis, San Antonio and East Rutherford. Starting in 2010, all tournament games would have the same identical courts.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
This is a list of qualifying teams in the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams
Only one of the 65 teams, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, was a first-time entrant into the tournament field.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams
Team names are those listed on the NCAA's scoreboard for the play-in game and first round matchups. Only UCLA, UNLV, and USC use abbreviations; all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation "A&M".


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament: qualifying teams, Qualifying teams, Other teams considered (bubble teams)
On March 11, 2007, the NCAA Selection Committee released a list of 31 other schools that were considered for at-large bids but did not make the final field of 65. Many of the teams were selected for the 2007 National Invitation Tournament.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship was a golf tournament contested from May 30 to June 2, 2007 at the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the 69th NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship and was hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University. The team championship was won by the Stanford Cardinal who captured their eighth national championship (and first since 1994) by twelve strokes over the Georgia Bulldogs in stroke play. The individual national championship was won by Jamie Lovemark from USC.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Venue
This was the first NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship hosted at the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club in Williamsburg, Virginia; the tournament was hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University which is located nearby in Richmond, Virginia.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 16 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey as the culmination of the 2006–07 season. The tournament began on March 23, 2007, and ended with the championship game on April 7.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Championship is a single-elimination tournament featuring 16 teams representing all six Division I conferences in the nation. The Championship Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 16 within four regionals of 4 teams. The winners of the six Division I conference championships receive automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament procedure
The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following were the sites for the 2007 regionals:


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
Hockey East had five teams receive a berth in the tournament, the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) had four teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) had three teams receive a berth, the ECACHL had two teams receive a berth, and Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America (CHA) each had one team receive a berth.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Brackets
The number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was held from May 12 through May 28, 2007. This was the 37th annual Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Sixteen NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The first round of the single-elimination tournament was played on May 12 and May 13 at the home field of the top-seeded team. The quarterfinals were held on May 19 and May 20 on two separate neutral fields: the Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland, and Princeton Stadium in Princeton, New Jersey. The tournament culminated with the championship weekend, which included the Division II and Division III championships, semifinals and finals held on Memorial Day weekend at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. The championship game was played in front of a record crowd of 48,443 fans.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
Johns Hopkins won their ninth national title, defeating Duke University in the final 12–11. Johns Hopkins was led by Paul Rabil and coach Dave Pietramala, and Duke was led by Zack Greer and Matt Danowski.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
Delaware, led by Alex Smith made it to the Final Four for the first time in school history.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was a tournament of 48 teams from NCAA Division I who played for the NCAA Championship in soccer. The College Cup for the final four teams was held at SAS Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. All other games were played at the home field of the higher-seeded team. The final was held on December 16, 2007.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
In the final, Wake Forest defeated Ohio State, 2–1, with second-half goals scored by Marcus Tracy and Zach Schilawski. This was Wake Forest's first NCAA title in men's soccer and eighth overall.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The tournament began on November 23, 2007. The first round was played on November 23 and 24, and the second round on the November 28. The third round was played on December 1 and 2. The Regional Finals were played on December 7 and 8.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 2007 at the University Aquatic Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the 84th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2007 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Auburn again topped the team standings, finishing 169 points ahead of Stanford. It was the Tigers' fifth consecutive and seventh overall national title.


2007 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 2007 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were the 66th NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 26th NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California on the campus of the California State University, Sacramento. In total, thirty-six different men's and women's track and field events were contested.


2007 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 17 through June 4, 2007. 64 NCAA Division I college softball teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament, to play in the NCAA Tournament. The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


2007 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Automatic Bids
Conference champions from 29 Division I conferences earned automatic bids to regionals. The remaining 35 spots were awarded to schools as at-large invitees.


2007 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, National Seeds
9 Michigan10 LSU11 Alabama12 UCLA13 Florida14 DePaul15 North Carolina St.16 Virginia Tech


2007 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, Women's College World Series, Participants
† Excludes results of the pre-NCAA Women's College World Series of 1969 through 1981.


2007 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The 2007 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships were the 61st annual men's and 25th annual women's championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. The tournaments were played concurrently during May 2007 in Athens, Georgia.


2007 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
Hosts Georgia defeated Illinois in the men's championship match, 4–0, to claim the Bulldogs' fifth team national title.


2007 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
Meanwhile, Georgia Tech defeated UCLA in the women's title match, 4–2, to claim their first team national championship.


2007 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships, Host sites
This year's tournaments were played at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 17, 2007 and concluded on April 3 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Final Four consisted of Tennessee, LSU, Rutgers, and North Carolina, with Tennessee defeating Rutgers 59–46 for their seventh National Title. Tennessee's Candace Parker was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
The Dallas Regional largely followed the seeding, with the top two seeds meeting in the regional final, and the top seed, North Carolina, winning 84–72 to move on to the Final Four, the second consecutive trip to the Final Four for the Tarheels. In the Dayton Regional, seventh-seeded Mississippi upset second-seeded Maryland, and followed that with an upset of third-seeded Oklahoma, but in the regional final faced top-seeded Tennessee, who went on to beat Mississippi by 36 points, and move on to the Final Four.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
In the Fresno Regional, the second-seeded Stanford Cardinal fell to Florida State, who then lost to third-seeded LSU. The wins by Florida State over ODU and Stanford were vacated by the NCAA. In the regional final, LSU easily beat Connecticut, 73–50. This is, as of 2021, the last Final Four to not feature Connecticut. In the Greensboro Regional, neither of the top two seeds made it to the regional final. The top seed, Duke, lost a one-point game to Rutgers, while the second seed, Vanderbilt, was ousted in the second round by Bowling Green. Fourth-seeded Rutgers beat the third seed, Arizona State, by 19 points in the regional final.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
The semifinal game between Tennessee and North Carolina was expected to be a high-scoring game, but it turned out to be more disorder than scoring, In a game the New York Times would describe as an "artless grind", the Tarheels held a 48–36 lead with just over eight minutes to play. They would not score another basket. The Lady Vols, who ended up hitting only 27% of the field goal attempts, went on a 20–2 run, and ended up with the win, 56–50.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
In the other semifinal, Rutgers faced LSU. Rutgers's appearance in a Final Four game seemed improbable earlier in the season, when the Scarlet Knights lost four of their first six games, and played so poorly that their coach C. Vivian Stringer revoked their access to their locker room. However, their play, particularly their defense, improved, and they were now a game away from a possible appearance in a national championship game, if they could defeat LSU, who had Sylvia Fowles as a dominant center.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Fowles, who would go on to be the second overall WNBA draft pick the following year, had just completed a double-double against Connecticut, scoring 23 points, snaring 15 rebounds and blocking 6 shots. Rutgers held her to five points while missing eight of her ten field goal attempts. Rutgers pulled out to a 37–19 lead at halftime, and went on to win, holding LSU to 35 points, an NCAA record low in a Final Four game.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
In the championship game, Tennessee was too much for Rutgers. The Lady Vols had an eleven-point lead at halftime, which Rutgers cut to seven, but that was as close as they would get. Candace Parker scored 17 points, but Pat Summitt noted the contribution of their 5-foot 2-inch point guard Shannon Bobbitt, who hit two key three-pointers en route to scoring 13 points of her own. Tennessee won 59–46, bringing the seventh national championship to the school, and increasing the win total of Summitt to 947, which is 33 more than Bob Knight, the most victorious coach on the men's side.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals
Once again, the system was the same as the Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, with the exception that only 64 teams go and there is no play-in game. Automatic bids are secured by 31 conference champions and 33 at-large bids.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Subregionals
The subregionals, which once again used the "pod system", keeping most teams at or close to the home cities, were held from March 17 to 20 at these locations:


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals
The regionals were held from March 24 to 27 in the following regions. The regionals, as they were in the previous two tournaments, were named after the city they were played in.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals
The regional winners advanced to the Final Four, held on April 1 and 3, 2007 at Quicken Loans Arena, in Cleveland, Ohio, hosted by both Cleveland State University and the Mid-American Conference.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - automatic
Sixty-four teams were selected to participate in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Thirty-one conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA tournament.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - at-large
Thirty-three additional teams were selected to complete the sixty-four invitations.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by conference
Thirty-one conferences earned an automatic bid. In twenty-one cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-three additional at-large teams were selected from ten of the conferences.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by state
The sixty-four teams came from thirty-one states, plus Washington, D.C. Texas, Tennessee, and North Carolina had the most teams with five bids each. Nineteen states did not have any teams receiving bids.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Brackets
Data source(*) – Number of asterisks denotes number of overtimes.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
As it had every year since 2003, ESPN and ESPN2 televised all 63 games. The first two rounds were presented on a regional basis. In some cases, a complete game of interest to a particular region were shown. However, most of the telecasts were in a "whip-around" format, with the specific game being shown changed on occasion and the endings to all close games or potential major upsets included. All games not shown on either ESPN or ESPN2 in a local market area were available to subscribers of ESPN Full Court, a pay-per-view package available on most major cable and satellite providers. Select games were also simulcast on ESPNU and ESPN360.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
All games from the regional semifinals forward were televised nationally on either ESPN or ESPN2, in both standard-definition and high-definition formats. The Final Four was on ESPN. In addition, the championship game was presented in the ESPN Full Circle format.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
ESPN had three announcers at each site: a play-by-play announcer, a color commentator, and a sideline reporter. (In contrast, CBS Sports, which covers nearly every game of the men's tournament, did not use sideline reporters until the Final Four.) Mike Patrick, Doris Burke, Holly Rowe and Mark Jones had those respective roles at the Final Four site in Cleveland. Patrick, Burke and Rowe also covered the Greensboro regional.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
Burke, who had been a sideline reporter at previous Final Fours, replaced Ann Meyers, who had that role for the last ten years. Meyers is now the general manager of the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
Some of the other ESPN commentators during earlier rounds included Linda Cohn, Dave Revsine, Dave Barnett, Fran Fraschilla, and Van Chancellor.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
Trey Wingo was the studio host, with analysts Kara Lawson and Stacey Dales.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Television and radio
Mowins and Debbie Antonelli called the Final Four action on Westwood One radio.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
Eighteen conferences went 0-1: America East, Atlantic Sun Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big West Conference, Conference USA, Ivy League, Mid-Continent, MEAC, Missouri Valley Conference, Northeast Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Southern Conference, Southland, SWAC, West Coast Conference, and WAC


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 26th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The championship game was played at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during May 2007. All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship, and a total of 16 teams were invited to participate.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
Northwestern defeated Virginia, 15–13, to win their third national championship. This would subsequently become the third of Northwestern's seven national titles in eight years (2005–2009, 2011–12).


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The leading scorer for the tournament was Katie Breslin from Virginia (17 goals). Hilary Bowen, from Northwestern, was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field
A total of 16 teams were invited to participate. 9 teams qualified automatically by winning their conference tournaments while the remaining 7 teams qualified at-large based on their regular season records.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament field, Seeds
1. Northwestern2. Duke3. Virginia4. Penn5. Maryland6. North Carolina7. Johns Hopkins8. Vanderbilt


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 2007 Women's College Cup) was the 26th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at Aggie Soccer Complex in College Station, Texas from December 7–9, 2007 while the preceding rounds were played at various sites across the country from November 15–30.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
USC defeated Florida State in the final, 2–0, to win their first national title. Both teams were making their first appearances in the tournament final while USC managed to become the first program since Florida in 1998 to win the College Cup in the first ever appearance. The Trojans (20–3–2) were coached by Ali Khosroshahin.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Offensive Player was Amy Rodriguez from USC, and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Kristin Olsen, also from USC. Rodriguez and Olsen, alongside nine other players, were named to the All-Tournament Team.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The tournament's leading scorer, with 8 goals and 1 assist, was Sanna Talonen from Florida State.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. The tournament field remained fixed at 64 teams.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Format
Just as before, the final two rounds, deemed the Women's College Cup, were played at a pre-determined neutral site. All other rounds were played on campus sites at the home field of the higher-seeded team. The only exceptions were the first two rounds, which were played at regional campus sites. The top sixteen teams hosted four team-regionals on their home fields (with some exceptions, noted below) during the tournament's first weekend.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 2007 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 26th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted by the University of Minnesota at the University Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Defending champions Auburn again topped the team standings, finishing 58 points (535−477) ahead of Arizona. This was the Tigers' fifth women's team title and fifth in six seasons.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on November 29, 2007 with 64 teams and concluded on December 15, 2007 when Penn State defeated Stanford 3 games to 2 in Sacramento, California for the program's second NCAA title.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
Penn State, who was making their first final four appearance since 1999, finished the season on a 26 match win streak. Their last loss of 2007 came against Stanford in five games. Semifinalist California made the program's first NCAA Final Four appearance after upsetting defending champion Nebraska in the quarterfinals.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
With Stanford, California and Southern California making the Final Four, it became the second straight year that the Final Four consisted of three Pac-10 teams. However, for the second straight year, it was the team from the different conference that won the national championship.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Stanford Regional, Recap
There were generally no major upsets in this bracket region. Overall #1 seed Stanford advanced to the final four for the second straight year with a 3-1 victory over Pac-10 foe UCLA.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Gainesville Regional, Recap
The biggest upset in the Gainesville bracket was #5 seed USC surprisingly sweeping #4 seed Texas, ending Texas' 24 match win streak.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, University Park Regional, Recap
The first major upset seen in this bracket was unseeded and unranked BYU defeated six seeded and 2006 national semifinalist Washington on Washington's home court. Before the loss, Washington was undefeated at home in postseason play, boasting a 13-0 record. The second major upset was unseeded Middle Tennessee defeating 11th seeded Hawai'i in the second round. It was the first time in school history Hawai'i lost in the second round, and was also the first time in school history that Middle Tennessee advanced to the sweet 16. Another upset was unseeded Michigan defeating 14th seeded Colorado State.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, University Park Regional, Recap
Penn State, the #3 overall seed, swept past each opponent to advance to their 6th final four in school history and first since winning the NCAA title in 1999. Big Ten Freshman of the Year Arielle Wilson was named the regional most outstanding player.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Madison Regional, Recap
The biggest upset in the NCAA tournament occurred in the Madison regional final, where #10 seed California defeated defending champion and #2 seed Nebraska in a sweep. Nebraska saw their dominance slipping after having to come up from 2 games down in the regional semifinals against unseeded Michigan State. Nebraska has also never won a regional final outside of the state of Nebraska, with the exception of the 2006 tournament when they came from 2 games down to defeat Minnesota, and eventually went on to win the title in Omaha, Nebraska. California advanced to their first final four in school history.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four – ARCO Arena, Sacramento, California, Scouting final four members
#1 Stanford: Stanford made the program's NCAA record 17th final four. In 2007 Stanford claimed their 2nd consecutive and 11th overall Pac-10 conference title. Four Stanford players were named AVCA All-Americans: Junior Foluke Akinradewo, senior Bryn Kehoe, and junior Cynthia Barboza took home first team honors while freshman Alix Klineman was placed on second team. Akinradewo was named the AVCA and Pac-10 Player of the Year, while Klineman was named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. Stanford's two losses of the season came from Washington and Southern California.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four – ARCO Arena, Sacramento, California, Scouting final four members
#3 Penn State: Penn State made the program's 6th final four. In 2007 Penn State claimed their Big Ten record 5th consecutive outright Big Ten title and 11th overall. Penn State finished the Big Ten season with a 20-0 record, the fourth time since joining in 1991 Penn State accomplished the feat. Four AVCA All-Americans were named on Penn State's squad, junior Nicole Fawcett, junior Christa Harmotto and sophomore Megan Hodge were named to first team while sophomore Alisha Glass took second team. Harmotto was named the Big Ten Player of the Year, while freshman Arielle Wilson, who was also named the University Park Regional most outstanding player, was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Penn State's two losses of the season came from Nebraska and Stanford.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four – ARCO Arena, Sacramento, California, Scouting final four members
#5 Southern California: USC made the program's 8th final four. USC had their hands full in the Gainesville regional, as they had back to back five game matches from Long Beach State and St. John's. They surprisingly swept #4 Texas in the regional finals. Senior Asia Kaczor was named an AVCA First Team All-American while sophomore Taylor Carico was named to second team. USC's four losses of the season came from Stanford, UCLA, Washington and Oregon. Kaczor was also named the Gainesville regional most outstanding player.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Final Four – ARCO Arena, Sacramento, California, Scouting final four members
#10 California: California made the program's first final four. Senior Angie Pressey, the daughter of Paul Pressey, was named an AVCA First Team All-American and also was selected for her fourth consecutive First Team All-Pac 10 honor, the first time in Cal's history that that happened. Sophomore Hana Cutura, who was also named the Madison regional most outstanding player was named an AVCA Second team All-American. Cal's losses of the season came from Colorado, Stanford twice, USC twice, UCLA and Washington.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Semifinal recap, Stanford vs. Southern California
USC started off the match taking the first game, 30-23. Stanford took the next two games, 30-20 & 30-25, before USC took the next game 30-20 to force a 5th game. The 5th game was back and forth, before Stanford saw a 2-point deficit at 11-9. Stanford rallied to tie the match at 12 all. The teams traded points before the score was tied at 13. USC took the next point to earn match point, but a service error on match point tied the game up at 14. Stanford took the next two points to win the match and 5th game, 16-14.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Semifinal recap, Penn State vs. California
Penn State defeated California in a sweep, 30-28, 30-25, 30-16. The first game was tied at 28 before a solo block from Blair Brown gave Penn State the game, 30-28. The second game was not as close as Penn State won 30-25, and the third game Penn State won easily 30-16. Penn State advanced to their 5th national championship match in school history.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship recap: Stanford vs. Penn State
In front of the second highest crowd in NCAA history to watch a women's volleyball championship match, Penn State, coached by 2007 AVCA National Coach of the Year Russ Rose, was ranked #1 in the AVCA coaches poll since October, but Stanford was the #1 seed, while previously ranked #4 in the poll. This was the third time in a decade that the two teams have met in the NCAA title match, tying an NCAA record. The teams previously met in 1997, when Stanford won in a five-game match, and two years later, when Penn State won in a sweep. Additionally, Penn State and Stanford are the only Division I universities that have made every NCAA tournament appearance since NCAA starting sponsoring in 1981.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship recap: Stanford vs. Penn State
Coming into the match, Penn State had the highest hitting percentage in the nation as a team, while Stanford was ranked number 4. The first game started out back at forth with Stanford holding a slight edge at the media timeout at 15–13. The difference proved to be a 6–0 run after the timeout that separated Penn State from Stanford as the Cardinal never got closer than 3 points, with Penn State winning 30–25. The second game was much like the first as it featured many lead changes and ties. Penn State remained in control, never allowing Stanford to get closer than three points, thus winning 30–26 and sending Stanford in the locker room with their first 0–2 deficit of the season.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship recap: Stanford vs. Penn State
In the third game, Stanford responded and took control of the third, by winning 30–23, and handing Penn State their first single game loss of the tournament, as Penn State swept through each opponent until that point, ending their bid to become just the 3rd school in NCAA history to sweep through each opponent en route to winning the NCAA title. The fourth game was all Stanford as Penn State saw them take the second game, 30-19 as Stanford did not record a hitting error, and force a 5th game. This was the first five-game match in a championship since rally scoring began in 2001.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship recap: Stanford vs. Penn State
In the decisive 5th game, Penn State saw Stanford take a 4–3 lead out of Penn State errors, but after that, it was all Nittany Lions as they did not allow Stanford a single kill in a 7–0 scoring run to take their biggest lead of the night at 10-4. Stanford was not able to get any closer than 4 points. Stanford took their last point on their only kill of the game, but Penn State took the next points to earn match point on a block and MVP Megan Hodge's 26th kill of the match sealed the championship, 15–8.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship recap: Stanford vs. Penn State
As a team, Stanford hit negatively, with 1 kill, 4 errors on 19 attempts to hit -.158%, compared to Penn State's 11 kills, 5 errors on 21 attempts to hit .286% in the fifth game. Penn State outhit Stanford for the match, .317 to .291, just the second time all season Stanford was outhit. This win snapped a 12-match winning streak by Stanford, while it was the 26th consecutive match won by Penn State, as their last loss of the season was to Stanford exactly three months before on September 15, 2007, in another five game thriller.


2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, NCAA Tournament records
There were three NCAA tournament records that were set in the 2007 tournament that still stand.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following polls make up the 2007 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. USA Today and ESPN began publishing the Coaches' Poll of 31 active coaches ranking the top 25 teams in the nation in 1992. Each coach is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Beginning with the 1985 season, it expanded to the top 25. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
The preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams. Remaining teams not listed above were: 31. LSU 32. Mississippi State 33. Houston 34. Oklahoma 35. Troy 36. San Francisco 37. Winthrop 38. Michigan 39. Notre Dame 40. Ohio State


2007 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, NCBWA
The Preseason Poll ranked the top 35 teams. Remaining teams not listed above were: 31. Winthrop 32. Southern California 33. Oral Roberts 34. LSU 35. Mississippi State


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began on January 25, 2007. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament and 2007 College World Series. The College World Series, which consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament, was held in its annual location of Omaha, Nebraska at Rosenblatt Stadium. It concluded on June 24, 2007, with the final game of the best of three championship series. Oregon State defeated North Carolina two games to none to claim their second consecutive championship, which was also their second overall.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, New programs
Two programs, Central Arkansas and NJIT, moved from Division II to Division I for the 2007 season.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Dropped programs
Birmingham–Southern, which had competed in the Big South Conference, dropped to the Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the 2007 season. St. Francis (NY) dropped its varsity intercollegiate baseball program following the 2006 season.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes
The Sun Belt Conference added two members, Florida Atlantic from the Atlantic Sun Conference and Louisiana–Monroe from the Southland Conference.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes
The Southland added two members, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi (formerly a Division I independent) and Central Arkansas (formerly of Division II).


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference changes
Two schools became Division I independents– Chicago State, which moved from the Mid-Continent Conference, and NJIT, which moved from Division II.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, Realignment, Conference formats
The Southland Conference, whose membership changes left it with 12 baseball-sponsoring members, split into two six-team divisions.


2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 2007 season marked the sixty first NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Oregon State claiming their first championship with a two games to none series win over North Carolina in the final.


2007 NCAA Division I softball season
The 2007 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2007. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2007 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 2007 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on June 6, 2007.


2007 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 2007 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 31 to June 6, 2007 in Oklahoma City.


2007 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I season strikeouts:724 – Monica Abbott, Tennessee Volunteers


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament was the 51st annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Officially culminating the 2006–07 NCAA Division II men's basketball season, the tournament featured sixty-four teams from around the country.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The Elite Eight, national semifinals, and championship were again played at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Barton (31–5) defeated defending champions Winona State in the final, 77–75, to win their first Division II national championship.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The Bulldogs were coached by Ron Lievense. Barton's Anthony Atkinson was the Most Outstanding Player.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 2007 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 36th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. Thirty-two teams participated in the tournament.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The Franklin Pierce Ravens defeated Lincoln Memorial, 1–0, at the D-II Championship Festival, held in Orange Beach, Alabama, and hosted by the University of West Florida. David Clifton scored the match's lone goal in the 89th minute to give the Ravens men's team their first national title.


2007 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
Franklin Pierce, who finished the season 17-2-4, were coached by Marco Koolman.


2007 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 26th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


2007 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Southern Connecticut defeated Florida Gulf Coast in the championship game, 61–45, to claim the Owls' first NCAA Division II national title.


2007 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the Health and Sports Center on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Kearney in Kearney, Nebraska.


2007 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 2007 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). This is for the 2007 season.


2007 NCAA Division II football season
The 2007 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began on August 30, 2007, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 15, 2007 at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, hosted by the University of North Alabama. The Valdosta State Blazers defeated the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats, 25–20, to win their second Division II national title.


2007 NCAA Division II football season
The Harlon Hill Trophy was awarded to Danny Woodhead, running back from Chadron State, for the second consecutive year.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Conference and program changes
Chowan and Mary completed their transitions to Division II and became eligible for the postseason.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – ShawGreat Lakes Football Conference – TiffinGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Grand Valley StateGulf South Conference – Delta State Lone Star Conference – West Texas A&MMid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Northwest Missouri StateNorth Central Conference – Nebraska–OmahaNortheast-10 Conference – BryantNorthern Sun Intercollegiate Conference – Winona StatePennsylvania State Athletic Conference – West Chester (East), California (PA) (West)Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Chadron StateSouth Atlantic Conference – Carson-Newman and CatawbaSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – TuskegeeWest Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Shepherd


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 2007 NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs involved 24 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The tournament began on November 17, 2008 and concluded on December 15, 2008 with the 2007 NCAA Division II National Football Championship game at Braly Municipal Stadium near the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
In the championship game the Valdosta State University Blazers defeated the Northwest Missouri State University Bearcats, 25–21, to win their second national championship.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason, Playoff format
The first-round games were conducted on the campus of one of the competing institutions as determined by the NCAA Division II Football Committee. Two teams in each super regional earned first-round byes. The first-round winners advanced to face a bye team in their super regional. Second-round winners met in the quarterfinals and quarterfinal winners advanced to play in the semifinals.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason, Playoff format
First-round, second-round, quarterfinal and semifinal games were played on the campus of one of the competing institutions as determined by the NCAA Division II Football Committee. The home team at the championship was determined by the Division II Football Committee and the Shoals National Championship Committee.


2007 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason, National television coverage
The championship game was played at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama and broadcast live on ESPN2 on December 15.


2007 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 2007 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 32nd national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with three regions consisting of six teams and five consisting of seven, for a total of 53 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Kean, who defeated Emory for the championship.


2007 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, Regionals, New York Regional
Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park-Auburn, NY (Host: Ithaca College)


2007 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, World Series
Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium-Grand Chute, WI (Host: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh/Lawrence University)


2007 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's collegiate basketball national champion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. It began on March 1, 2007, and concluded on March 17, 2007, with a championship game in the Salem Civic Center of Salem, Virginia, which was won by Amherst College over Virginia Wesleyan 80-67.


2007 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams
The Division III Championships Committee selected 59 schools to participate in the 2007 tournament. Thirty-seven teams earned automatic qualification by winning their respective conferences. Additionally, four independent (not affiliated with a conference with an automatic bid) teams and 18 other at-large teams from the remaining independent teams and automatic qualifying conferences — who did not receive their conference automatic qualification—were selected.


2007 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2006–07 season, the 24th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Oswego State defeating Middlebury in the championship game 4-3 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Wessman Arena in Superior, Wisconsin.


2007 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of seven different conferences. One at-large bid was available for the best non-conference champion for each region with one additional at-large bid for the best remaining team regardless of region.


2007 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. For the three eastern Quarterfinals the teams were seeded according to their rankings. The two lowest-seeded eastern teams played a first round game while the remaining five teams received byes into Quarterfinal round. The top-seeded eastern team played the winner of the eastern first round game. For the western quarterfinal, the top-ranked team awaited the winner of a first round game between the lower-ranked teams. The higher-seeded team served as host for each game of the first round and quarterfinals.


2007 NCAA Division III football season
The 2007 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 2007, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 2007 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Wisconsin–Whitewater Warhawks won their first Division III championship by defeating the Mount Union Purple Raiders, 31−21. This was the third of seven straight championship games between Mount Union (3 wins) and Wisconsin–Whitewater (4 wins).


2007 NCAA Division III football season
The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Justin Beaver, running back from Wisconsin–Whitewater.


2007 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 2007 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 35th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the 15th time.


2007 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification
Twenty-two conferences met the requirements for an automatic ("Pool A") bid to the playoffs. Besides the NESCAC, which does not participate in the playoffs, four conferences had no Pool A bid. The NWC was in the second year of the two-year waiting period, while the ACFC, UAA, and UMAC failed to meet the seven-member requirement. The PAC received a Pool A bid for the first time, having attained seven members and passed through the waiting period.


2007 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification
Schools not in Pool A conferences were eligible for Pool B. The number of Pool B bids was determined by calculating the ratio of Pool A conferences to schools in those conferences and applying that ratio to the number of Pool B schools. The 22 Pool A conferences contained 190 schools, an average of 8.6 teams per conference. Thirty schools were in Pool B, enough for three bids.


2007 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason, Qualification
The remaining seven playoff spots were at-large ("Pool C") teams.


2007 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 2007 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The Sporting News and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.


2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: Opening Rounds
The opening rounds of the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament were held from March 13–17, 2007.


2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: Opening Rounds, Scores and schedule
Unless otherwise specified, all games were on CBS, except for the play-in game, which aired on ESPN and two additional games. Those games were broadcast on CSTV except in the natural areas of the teams involved, as those were broadcast on CBS. Times listed are US EDT (UTC-4).


2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: Opening Rounds, Scores and schedule
Team names are those listed on the NCAA's scoreboard for the play-in game and first-round matchups. Only UNLV and UCLA use abbreviations; all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation "A&M".


2007 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 38th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate indoor volleyball. The single elimination tournament was played at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio during May 2007.


2007 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UC Irvine defeated IPFW in the final match, 3–1 (30–20, 24–30, 30–23, 30–28), to win their first national title. Both teams made their debut appearances in the title match. The Anteaters (29–5) were coached by John Speraw.


2007 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UC Irvine's Matt Webber was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Webber, along with six other players, comprised the All Tournament Team.


2007 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Until the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


2007 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 2007 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 39th annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Avery Aquatic Center in Stanford, California from December 1–2, 2007.


2007 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
California defeated USC in the final, 8–6, to win their thirteenth national title. The Golden Bears (28–4) were coached by Kirk Everist.


2007 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The Most Outstanding Player of the tournament was Michael Sharf from California. Additionally, two All-Tournament Teams were named: a First Team (with seven players, including Sharf) and a Second Team (also with seven players).


2007 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The tournament's leading scorer, with 4 goals, was Tim Hummel from Loyola Marymount.


2007 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


2007 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2007 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament involved eight schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. It began on March 9, 2007, and ended with the championship game on March 18. The quarterfinals were conducted at the homes of the seeded teams, and the Frozen Four was conducted at Lake Placid, NY. A total of seven games were played.


2007 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 2007 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 28th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.


2007 NCAA Rifle Championships
The championships were held at the E.F. Horton Rifle Range at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska.


2007 NCAA Rifle Championships
Hosts and defending champions Alaska won the team championship, the Nanooks' ninth NCAA national title in rifle.


2007 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of eight teams contested this championship.


2007 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 2007 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area in Jackson, New Hampshire as part of the 54th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate slalom and cross country skiing in the United States.


2007 NCAA Skiing Championships
Dartmouth, coached by Cami Thompson, won the team championship, the Big Green's first co-ed title and first overall title.


2007 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
This year's NCAA skiing championships were hosted by the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area near Jackson, New Hampshire.


2007 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 2007 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the twenty sixth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 2006 was Georgia. The Competition took place in Salt Lake City, Utah hosted by the University of Utah in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The 2007 Championship was won by Georgia, their third in a row.


2007 NCBA World Series
The 2007 National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) World Series was played at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, FL from May 24 to May 30. The eighth tournament's champion was the University of North Carolina.


2007 NCBA World Series
This was the last NCBA World Series in which there was only one division of competition. Beginning the next season, the NCBA split into Division I and Division II for their teams.


2007 NCBA World Series, Format
The format is similar to the NCAA College World Series in that eight teams participate in two four-team double elimination brackets with the only difference being that in the NCBA, there is only one game that decides the national championship rather than a best-of-3 like the NCAA.


2007 NECBL All-Star Game
The 2007 NECBL All-Star Game was the 14th exhibition game between all-stars from the NECBL's Northern and the Southern Divisions. The Southern All-Stars held off the Northern All-Stars 8-0. Matt Vance of the Newport Gulls was named the game's MVP.


2007 NECBL season
The 2007 NECBL season was the 14th season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a wood bat collegiate summer baseball league operating in the northeastern United States region of New England.


2007 NECBL season
In the quarterfinal playoff rounds, Vermont defeated Keene 2-0 (7-3, 3-2), Torrington defeated Manchester 2-0 (6-5, 3-1), Newport defeated North Adams 2-1 (4-8, 6-4, 5-2), and Holyoke defeated Lowell 2-1 (5-4, 8-9, 5-4). In the semifinal rounds, Vermont defeated Holyoke 2-0 (7-3, 3-2) and Newport defeated Torrington 2-0 (5-0, 3-2). In game 1 of the championship series, Vermont defeated Newport 14-8. In game 2, Vermont defeated Newport 3-0 to win its second consecutive NECBL championship.


2007 NERFU College Men's Division IV Rugby Tournament
The 2007 NERFU College Men's Division IV Rugby Tournament featured 8 teams from four conferences. The top 2 teams in each conference were seeded according to the success of their conference in the previous year.


2007 NERFU College Men's Division IV Rugby Tournament
In the championship match at the Kirwin Memorial Pitch at Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, newcomer Salve Regina University lost to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by a score of 34-15. The match was well attended. Following the match, both UMASS Dartmouth and Salve Regina were promoted to Division III for the 2008 season.


2007 NFL Draft
The 2007 National Football League Draft was the 72nd annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible American football players. It took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, on April 28 and April 29, 2007. The draft was televised for the 28th consecutive year on ESPN and ESPN2. The NFL Network also broadcast coverage of the event, its second year doing so. There were 255 draft selections: 223 regular selections (instead of the typical 224) and 32 compensatory selections. A supplemental draft was also held after the regular draft and before the regular season. This was the first draft presided over by new NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.


2007 NFL Draft
The first round was the longest in the history of the NFL draft, lasting six hours, eight minutes. One of the big stories of the draft was the fall of Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn. Quinn had been projected as a potential first overall pick in early mock drafts and had been invited to attend the draft in person, but he wasn't selected until the 22nd pick in the first round by the Cleveland Browns, who acquired the pick in a trade with the Dallas Cowboys.


2007 NFL Draft
Louisiana State University quarterback JaMarcus Russell was selected first overall by the Oakland Raiders after he had replaced Quinn as the projected first selection among most analysts following his performance in the 2007 Sugar Bowl against Quinn and Notre Dame. Russell is considered by many as one of the biggest draft busts in NFL history, and Quinn also had a largely unsuccessful pro career.


2007 NFL Draft
Those selections notwithstanding, Bleacher Report named the 2007 draft class the "greatest draft class in the last 25 years" in 2012 due to the heavy volume of reliable starters, as well as players selected that are now widely regarded as future Hall of Famers, such as Patrick Willis, Darrelle Revis, Marshawn Lynch, and Marshal Yanda; first round selections Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas, and Adrian Peterson are widely regarded as being among the greatest to ever play at their respective positions.


2007 NFL Draft, Player breakdown
The following is the breakdown of the 255 players by position:


2007 NFL Draft, Supplemental draft selections
For each player selected in the supplemental draft, the selecting team forfeits its pick in that round in the draft of the following season.


2007 NFL Europa season
The 2007 NFL Europa season was the 15th season in 17 years of the American Football league that started out as the World League of American Football. 2007 was the first season the league was known as NFL Europa after being called NFL Europe since 1998. The NFL folded the league after the 2007 season.


2007 NFL Europa season, World Bowl XV
World Bowl XV was held on Saturday, June 23, 2007 at Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. The Hamburg Sea Devils defeated the Frankfurt Galaxy, 37-28.


2007 NFL season
The 2007 NFL season was the 88th regular season of the National Football League.


2007 NFL season
Regular-season play was held from September 6 to December 30. The campaign kicked off with the defending Super Bowl XLI champion Indianapolis Colts defeating the New Orleans Saints 41–10 in the NFL Kickoff Game.


2007 NFL season
The New England Patriots became the first team to complete the regular season undefeated since the league expanded to a 16-game regular season in 1978. Four weeks after the playoffs began on January 5, 2008, the Patriots' bid for a perfect season was dashed when they lost to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII, the league championship game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on February 3, by a score of 17–14.


2007 NFL season, Draft
The 2007 NFL Draft was held from April 28 to 29, 2007 at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. With the first pick, the Oakland Raiders selected quarterback JaMarcus Russell from Louisiana State University.


2007 NFL season, New referee
John Parry was promoted to referee, replacing Bill Vinovich, who was forced to resign due to a heart condition. Vinovich would then serve as a replay official from 2007 to 2011. He would later be given a clean bill of health and return to the field as a referee in 2012.


2007 NFL season, Rule changes
The following rule changes were passed at the league's annual owners meeting in Phoenix, Arizona during the week of March 25–28:


2007 NFL season, Preseason
The Hall of Fame Game was played in Canton, Ohio on Sunday August 5, 2007, with the Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Saints by a score of 20–7; the game was televised by the NFL Network, replacing NBC, who had been previously scheduled to broadcast the China Bowl exhibition game from Beijing, China on August 8, 2007 between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Workers Stadium. However, with all efforts being put into the London regular season game, plans for the game were postponed (then later cancelled completely) as Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Schedule formula
Based on the NFL's scheduling formula, the intraconference and interconference matchups for 2007 were:


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Opening weekend
On March 26, 2007, the league announced the opening Saints-Colts Kickoff Game on September 6 that would be telecast on NBC. Pre -game activities featured Indiana native John Mellencamp, Billy Joel, and Kelly Clarkson. The entertainment portion of events started 30 minutes earlier than the scheduled start time of the game, leading up to the unveiling of the Colts’ Super Bowl XLI championship banner. The opening events were simulcast on NFL Network.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Opening weekend
The Dallas Cowboys hosted the New York Giants in the first Sunday night game September 9 at 8:15 p.m. US EDT. Monday Night Football on ESPN kicked off with a doubleheader on September 10 with the Cincinnati Bengals hosting the Baltimore Ravens at 7:00 p.m. US EDT, and the San Francisco 49ers hosting the Arizona Cardinals at 10:15 p.m. US EDT. The 49ers paid tribute to three-time Super Bowl winning head coach Bill Walsh, who died July 30, in that game.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Going global
In October 2006, NFL club owners approved a plan to stage up to two international regular season games per season beginning in 2007 and continuing through at least 2011. On February 2, 2007, the league announced that the Week 8 contest between the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins would be played at Wembley Stadium in London on October 28 at 5 p.m. GMT, which was 1 p.m. EDT) As the Giants were the away-team designate from the NFC, Fox broadcast the game in the USA according to league broadcast contract rules.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, "Super Bowl 411⁄2"
In Week 9, the New England Patriots (8–0) faced the Indianapolis Colts (7–0) in a battle of undefeated teams. Thus there was a lot of hype surrounding the game, also due to the fact that these teams had met in the previous season's AFC Championship game, and would possibly meet later in the 2007 AFC Championship game. Many people dubbed the game "Super Bowl 411⁄2". The Patriots prevailed 24–20, and would later finish the regular season as the league's first 16–0 team.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Thanksgiving
For the second year in a row, three games were also held on the United States' Thanksgiving Day (November 22). In addition to the traditional games hosted by the Detroit Lions and Cowboys (with those teams respectively playing the Green Bay Packers and the New York Jets, with the Packers–Lions game starting at 12:30 p.m. US EST and the Jets–Cowboys game kicking off at 4:15 p.m. US EST respectively), the Colts faced the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome, with kickoff at 8:15 p.m. US EST.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Flex scheduling
The NFL entered its second year of flexible scheduling in the final weeks of the season. In each of the Sunday night contests from Weeks 11 through 17, NBC had the option of switching its Sunday night game for a more favorable contest, up to 12 days before the game's start.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Flex scheduling
In addition to an extra week of flexible scheduling (because of the conflict with scheduling Christmas Eve the previous season, which NBC did not do (instead opting to air a game on Christmas Day)), the NFL slightly changed its flex-schedule procedure. In 2006, the league did not reveal its predetermined Sunday night game; the reason given by the league was to avoid embarrassing the teams switched out for a more compelling game. In 2007, the league announced all predetermined matchups, with a footnote on the games subject to flex scheduling.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Flex scheduling
Also, the network that carries the "doubleheader" week game (either CBS or Fox) will be able to switch one game per week into the 4:15 PM (USET) time slot, except in the final week, when NBC will select one game for the 8:15 PM slot, and both CBS and Fox will have doubleheader games on December 30.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Flex scheduling
The first flex game was the New England Patriots visiting the Buffalo Bills on November 18. The next flexing came when it was announced that the December 23 Washington Redskins–Minnesota Vikings game was moved to 8:15 PM on NBC, replacing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers–San Francisco 49ers contest, which was moved to 4:05 PM to be aired on Fox.


2007 NFL season, Regular season, Flex scheduling
It was announced on December 23 the Tennessee Titans–Indianapolis Colts game, originally scheduled for a 1 PM kickoff on CBS, would be the December 30 "flex game" and airing at 8:15 PM on NBC, replacing the Kansas City Chiefs–New York Jets game, which was moved to 4:15 PM on CBS, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers–Baltimore Ravens contest. Additionally, the Dallas Cowboys–Washington Redskins game was switched on Fox from 1 PM kickoff to 4:15 PM.


2007 NFL season, Playoffs
Within each conference, the four division winners and the two wild card teams (the top two non-division winners with the best overall regular season records) qualified for the playoffs. The four division winners are seeded 1 through 4 based on their overall won-lost-tied record, and the wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6. The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round.


2007 NFL season, Playoffs
In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend, the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth. The 1 and 2 seeds from each conference then receive a bye in the first round. In the second round, the divisional playoffs, the number 1 seed hosts the worst surviving seed from the first round (seed 4, 5, or 6), while the number 2 seed will play the other team (seed 3, 4, or 5).


2007 NFL season, Playoffs
The two surviving teams from each conference's divisional playoff games then meet in the respective AFC and NFC Conference Championship games, hosted by the higher seed. Although the Super Bowl, the fourth and final round of the playoffs, is played at a neutral site, the designated home team is based on an annual rotation by conference.


2007 NFL season, Events, Player conduct off the field
The NFLPA, then led by their president Gene Upshaw and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, worked with player conduct in the form of suspensions for off the field conduct in light of the more than fifty arrests by local law enforcement since the start of the 2006 season. The hardest hit came on April 10 when Adam "Pacman" Jones of the Tennessee Titans was suspended for the entire season for his five arrests, the most blatant while in Las Vegas for the NBA All-Star Weekend in February where he was accused of causing a riot/shooting in a strip club.


2007 NFL season, Events, Player conduct off the field
That same day, Chris Henry of the Cincinnati Bengals was suspended for the first eight games of the season for his run-ins with the legal system. The other big name that has been caught in the web of controversy was Falcons' quarterback Michael Vick. Vick was charged on July 24, 2007 with dogfighting and animal abuse, and was suspended following a guilty plea in the case, on which he was sentenced to 23 months in prison (retroactive to November) and three years probation on December 10.


2007 NFL season, Events, Death of Marquise Hill
On the evening of May 27, 2007, Marquise Hill, a defensive end for the New England Patriots and a friend fell off a jet ski in Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans. The two were wearing neither personal flotation nor tracking devices. The friend was rescued and sent to Tulane Medical Center, but Hill did not survive; his body was found the next day. The Patriots honored Hill, the first Patriots player to die while still a member of the team, by wearing black circular decals on their helmets with Hill's number, 91.


2007 NFL season, Events, Death of Sean Taylor
Fourth-year player Sean Taylor, a strong safety for the Redskins, was shot in his home near Miami, Florida on November 26. Armed with a machete, Taylor confronted robbers who were breaking into his home—then 17-year-old Eric Rivera, Jr., 18-year-old Charles Wadlow, and 20-year-olds Jason Mitchell and Venjah Hunte. Rivera fired two shots from his 9 mm gun, one missing and the other hitting Taylor's leg, going from his right groin to his left according to an autopsy obtained by Associated Press. He died from his injuries the next day.


2007 NFL season, Events, Death of Sean Taylor
For the remainder of the season, the Redskins honored him with a black patch on their right shoulder of the player uniform jerseys, while all 32 teams honored Taylor by applying a decal with his playing number (21) on the left back side of their helmets. Taylor's memory was honored in all games during Week 13 and all three Redskins representatives in the Pro Bowl wore number 21 in his honor. In 2013, a jury found Rivera guilty of second-degree murder and armed burglary.


2007 NFL season, Events, Death of Sean Taylor
In 2014 Rivera received a sentence of 571⁄2 years in prison; he testified someone else fired the gun. Jason Scott Mitchell was also convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, Venjah Hunte was sentenced to 29 years in prison, Charles Wardlow to 30 years in prison, and Timmy Lee Brown to 18 years in prison.


2007 NFL season, Events, Spygate
During the Patriots season opening game at The Meadowlands against the Jets, a Patriots camera staffer was ejected from the Patriots sideline and was accused of videotaping the Jets' defensive coaches relaying signals. The end result was that the team was fined $250,000, head coach Bill Belichick was docked $500,000 (the maximum fine that could be imposed) and also stripped of their first round selection of the 2008 NFL Draft. If the Pats had failed to make the playoffs, the penalty would have been their second and third round picks. The team was allowed to keep their other first-round pick acquired from the San Francisco 49ers during the previous year's selection meeting.


2007 NFL season, Milestones
The following teams and players set all-time NFL records during the regular season:


2007 NFL season, Coaching changes
The following teams hired new head coaches prior to the start of the 2007 season:


2007 NFL season, Coaching changes
The following head coaches were fired or resigned during the 2007 season: