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NCAA Basketball Fans to Access Past NCAA March Madness Games in the NCAA Vault Video ArchiveFor Immediate Release
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Contact(s)
Abby Lurie
Thought Equity Motion
alurie@thoughtequity.com
720/382-2890
Gail Dent
NCAA
gdent@ncaa.org
317/917-6117
INDIANAPOLIS—With the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship only days away, fans can get ready by reliving their favorite team or player’s most notable moments and games. With the introduction of the first-of-its-kind NCAA Vault—a free searchable and shareable video archive of the last decade’s Sweet Sixteen® championship games—what was a dream for many fans has become a reality. Now that the 65 teams have been announced, check out their recent tournament history, last minute comebacks, dunks, great plays, and more:
- Georgia Tech vs. Oklahoma State – Relive this incredible matchup from the 2004 Final Four®
- Kansas - Will Kansas put Jayhawk nation through more nail biters in 2010? Who could forget the ’08 Final Four game that went down to the wire?
- Michigan State – The Spartans had the home court advantage last year in Detroit, but will the bandwagon advance to Indianapolis for this year’s Final Four?
- Georgetown - Georgetown has always been a tournament powerhouse! Remember the 2007 victory that earned the Hoyas their first trip to the Final Four since 1985?
- Syracuse – The Orange are running hard and the team looks ready for this year’s tournament! Remember the picture perfect 3-point shot block in the 2003 National Championship game?
- Kentucky – The Kentucky Wildcats are ready for primetime tournament action! Take a look back at Kentucky’s huge win in the 2005 tournament.
- Marquette – Marquette is ready to make another March run through the tournament, hoping to channel similar talent seen in 2003 with its win in the regional finals!
- Villanova – Villanova fans will never forget the team’s phenomenal run to the 2009 Final Four. The team’s regional final performance was a display for the ages.
In addition to enabling visitors to create conversations around their favorite moments, the NCAA Vault is a great resource for basketball coaches and leagues of all kinds, such as iHoops, where they can access moments that demonstrate how plays of all kinds should be properly executed. In addition, sports community sites, bloggers, and online publishers are utilizing the NCAA Vault Publishing Guide to link to moments in and games in their articles and message posts.
To explore your favorite games and moments within the NCAA Vault, visit www.ncaa.com/vault. For media inquiries, please contact Abby Lurie at alurie@thoughtequity.com (720.382.2890).
About Thought Equity Motion
Founded in 2003, Thought Equity Motion, Inc. is the world leader in digitizing, delivering and monetizing high-quality video content. The company’s technology platform powers the NCAA Vault, a first-of-its-kind video publishing model. Thought Equity Motion has indexed games in the NCAA Vault from the NCAA’s championship video archives with rich metadata tagging around players, teams and highlights, creating a flexible “database” of moments to enable a rich fan experience and new syndication models through an open application programming interface (API). For more information on Thought Equity Motion and is motion content solutions, visit www.thoughtequity.com.
About the NCAA
The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for more than 400,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I, II and III sports. Visit www.ncaa.org and www.ncaa.com for more details about the Association, its goals and members and corporate partnerships that help support programs for student-athletes. The NCAA is proud to have the following elite companies as official Corporate Champions-AT&T , Capital One and Coca-Cola-and the following elite companies as official Corporate Partners-Enterprise, The Hartford, Hershey's, LG, Lowe's, Planters, State Farm and UPS.
