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The 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament consists of 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 15, 2005, and will end with the championship game on April 4 from Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.

Tournament procedure

A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. Penn earned an automatic bid by winning the regular-season title of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a conference tournament. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.

Two teams play an opening-round game, popularly called the "play-in" game; the winner of that game advances to the main draw of the tournament and plays a top seed in one of the regionals. This game has been played at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio since its inception in 2001.

This is the second year of the so-called "pod" system, in which the eight first- and second-round sites are distributed around the four regionals. Before the 2004 tournament, all teams playing at a first- or second-round site fed into the same regional tournament. Since 2004, teams have been assigned to first- and second-round sites so as to limit the early-round travel of as many teams as possible. Half of the teams in a pod advance into separate regional tournaments.

All 64 teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals; the winner of the play-in game automatically gets a 16 seed. The Selection Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 65. For the first time in 2004, the ranking of the four top seeds against each other would determine the pairings in the Final Four. The top overall seed would be seeded to play the fourth overall seed in the national semifinals, should both teams advance that far.

The four regionals are officially named after their four host cities, a practice which also began in 2004. The regionals, along with their top seeds, are listed below.

Each regional winner advances to the Final Four, held from April 2-4 in St. Louis.

Opening Round

First Round

Chicago Regional

Albuquerque Regional

Syracuse Regional

Austin Regional

Second Round

Chicago Regional

Albuquerque Regional

Syracuse Regional

Austin Regional

Regionals

Chicago Regional

At Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois

Semifinals

Finals

Albuquerque Regional

At University Arena, Albuquerque

Semifinals

Finals

Syracuse Regional

At Carrier Dome, Syracuse

Semifinals

Finals

Austin Regional

At Frank Erwin Center, Austin

Semifinals

Finals

Final Four

At Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis

National Semifinals

Championship Game