1996 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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The <entity_0> involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college <entity_2>. It began on <entity_1>, and ended with the championship game on <entity_3> at Continental Airlines Arena (now known as Izod Center) in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The committee that put together the bracket in <entity_4> was criticized for placing what seemed to be the best two teams in college <entity_2> – Massachusetts and Kentucky – on the same side of the bracket so that they faced each other in the national semifinal – not the final game itself.
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