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The longest game in NCAA basketball history was Cincinnati vs Bradly December 21 1981. The game was seven overtimes long and Cincinnati won 75-73.
1 The final score was: Chicago 15, Iowa 12. 2  U.S. patent #1,718,305 was granted to G.L. Pierce on June 25, 1929, for the first version of what we now recognize as the basketball.. â 3 March Madnessâ began in 1939, when the first NCAA tournament took place at the University of Illinois.