page_title: 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
section_title: West Region
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament / Game summaries / West Region
caption_attribution_description: English: Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. Xavier University men's basketball coach Sean Miller looks on during a team practice prior to the 2008 NCAA Tournament.
context_page_description: The 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2007–08 basketball season. It began on March 18, 2008, and concluded on April 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
  For the first time since seeding began, all four of the top seeds advanced to the Final Four. These were Memphis, the winner of the South region, UCLA, the winner of the West region making their third consecutive Final Four appearance, Kansas, the winner of the Midwest region, and overall number one seed and East region winner North Carolina, back in the Final Four for the first time since their 2005 national championship.
  Memphis and Kansas advanced to the national championship game, with Memphis's victory in the semifinals giving them a record-setting 38 for the season, beating the mark set by Duke in 1999. Kansas, however, spoiled their national championship hopes by handing the Tigers their second loss of the season, winning the game in overtime, 75–68.
caption: Xavier coach Sean Miller during a practice before a tournament game
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