1999–2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

• The Mountain West Conference began play, with eight original members.
• The preseason AP All-American team was named on November 10. Chris Porter of Auburn was the leading vote-getter (53 of 65 votes). The rest of the team included Quentin Richardson of DePaul (46 votes), Mateen Cleaves of Michigan State (44), Scoonie Penn of Ohio State (44) and Terence Morris of Maryland (30).[http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/111099aac.html Mateen Cleaves Named Associated Press Preseason All-America], Michigan State Spartans, retrieved 2010-07-29
• David Webber scored 51 points for {{cbb link|year=1999–2000|sex=men|team=Central Michigan Chippewas|school=Central Michigan University|title=Central Michigan}} on February 24, 2000, against Ball State. The total was the highest single-game point total of the season in regulation (second only to Eddie House, who had 61 points in a double-overtime game to tie Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Pacific-10 Conference record).{{cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/409393724|url-access=subscription|id={{ProQuest|409393724}}|title=Points Well Made: [FINAL Edition]|work=The Washington Post|accessdate=April 22, 2023|date=January 25, 2003|page=|author=|quote=}} The tally broke Larry Bird's 1977 McGuirk Arena single-game record performance of 45 points.{{cite web|url=https://cmuchippewas.com/documents/2020/3/17/Record_Book.pdf|title=Central Michigan Men's Basketball Record Book|accessdate=April 20, 2023|date=March 2020|publisher=CBS Sports|website=CMUChippewas.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/263455437|url-access=subscription|id={{ProQuest|263455437}}|title=THE WEEK IN REVIEW Series: THE WEEK IN REVIEW; COMMENTARY: [SOUTH PINELLAS Edition]|work=St. Petersburg Times|accessdate=April 21, 2023|date=February 27, 2000|author1=Lowitt, Bruce |author2=Perez, Anthony |author3=Stephenson, Mike |author4=Thalji, Jamal|page=3C|quote=}}
• Cincinnati was 28–2 and had been arguably the best team in the country when Player of the Year Kenyon Martin had a season-ending leg fracture three minutes into their first-round Conference USA tournament game against Saint Louis. The Bearcats lost that game and gave the NCAA Tournament selection committee a difficult decision to make about seeding. Ultimately, the Bearcats were made a No. 2 seed in the 2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and lost in the second round to Tulsa.[http://www.gobearcats.com/datadump/sports/mbball/history/99-00season.html 1999–2000 Season Review]
• Head coach Tom Izzo led Michigan State to its second national championship behind the play of the "Flintstones," a trio of players from Flint, Michigan. Mateen Cleaves, Morris Peterson and Charlie Bell led the Spartans to an 89–76 win over Florida, with Cleaves named Final Four Most Outstanding Player and Peterson also making the All-Tournament team.[https://archive.today/20121202225942/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018885/index.htm State Of Siege], Sports Illustrated, retrieved 2010-08-02

• On uniforms, the use of the single-digit numbers "1" and "2" as player numbers was once again permitted. Their use had been prohibited since the 1957–58 season.{{cite news |last=Garich |first=Ed |date=March 25, 1957 |title=Cage Rules Group Still in Session |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/126112111/ |work=Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |access-date=June 25, 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2010/Rules.pdf |title=Playing Rules History |author= |date= |website=ncaa.org |publisher=NCAA |access-date=June 25, 2024 |pages=4, 5, 8}}{{cite web |url=https://defector.com/college-basketball-players-can-wear-digits-above-5-again |title=College Basketball Players Can Wear Digits Above ‘5’ Again |last=McQuade |first=Dan |date=June 9, 2023 |website=defector.com |publisher=Defector |access-date=June 25, 2024}}

The top 25 from the AP Poll November 9, 1999{{cite web|url=http://www.appollarchive.com/mbasketball/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=801|title=2000 NCAA Men's Basketball Rankings (Preseason)|publisher=AP Poll Archive|access-date=January 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229045334/http://www.appollarchive.com/mbasketball/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=801|archive-date=February 29, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} and the ESPN/USA Today Poll November 4, 1999.{{cite web|url=http://msuspartans.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/110499aab.html|title=Men's Basketball Ranked Second In ESPN/USA Today Poll

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These schools joined new conferences for the 1999–2000 season.

Twenty-nine conferences concluded their seasons with a single-elimination tournament, with only the Ivy League and the Pacific-10 Conference choosing not to conduct conference tournaments. Conference tournament winners generally received an automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The Mountain West Conference (MWC) began operation in 1999-2000 and its tournament winner did not receive an automatic bid, although UNLV, the winner of the inaugural MWC tournament, did receive an at-large bid.

Five schools played as Division I independents.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/independent/men/2000.html |work=Sports Reference |title=1999-2000 Men's Independent Season Summary |access-date=September 11, 2024}}

After eight seasons in which each of Philadelphia Big 5 member played only two games against other Big 5 schools each year, the Big 5 returned to a full round-robin schedule in which each team met each other team once, a format it had used from its first season of competition in 1955–56 through the 1990–91 season. Temple and Villanova both finished with 3–1 records in head-to-head competition among the Big 5.

[https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/seasons/men/2000-leaders.html Source for additional stats categories]

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File:Indianapolis-indiana-rca-dome.jpg in Indianapolis, Indiana, was the site of the Final Four and Championship game to end the 1999–2000 season.]]

{{4TeamBracket | RD1=National semifinals | RD2=National championship game

| RD1-seed1=E5

| RD1-team1=Florida

| RD1-score1=71

| RD1-seed2=S8

| RD1-team2=North Carolina

| RD1-score2=59

| RD1-seed3=M1

| RD1-team3=Michigan State

| RD1-score3=53

| RD1-seed4=W8

| RD1-team4=Wisconsin

| RD1-score4=41

| RD2-seed1=E5

| RD2-team1=Florida

| RD2-score1=76

| RD2-seed2=M1

| RD2-team2=Michigan State

| RD2-score2=89

}}

{{Main|2000 National Invitation Tournament}}

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| RD1-seed1= 

| RD1-team1=Penn State

| RD1-score1=52

| RD1-seed2= 

| RD1-team2=Notre Dame

| RD1-score2=73

| RD1-seed3= 

| RD1-team3=N.C. State

| RD1-score3=59

| RD1-seed4= 

| RD1-team4=Wake Forest

| RD1-score4=62

| RD2-seed1= 

| RD2-team1=Notre Dame

| RD2-score1=61

| RD2-seed2= 

| RD2-team2=Wake Forest

| RD2-score2=71

| RD2b-seed1= 

| RD2b-team1=Penn State

| RD2b-score1=74

| RD2b-seed2= 

| RD2b-team2=N.C. State

| RD2b-score2=72

}}

{{Main|2000 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans}}

• Wooden Award: Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• Naismith Award: Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• Associated Press Player of the Year: Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• NABC Player of the Year: Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA): Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• Adolph Rupp Trophy: Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• Sporting News Player of the Year: Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati

• USBWA Freshman of the Year: Jason Gardner, Arizona
• Sporting News Freshman of the Year: Jason Williams, Duke

• Associated Press Coach of the Year: Larry Eustachy, Iowa State
• Henry Iba Award (USBWA): Larry Eustachy, Iowa State
• NABC Coach of the Year: Gene Keady, Purdue
• Naismith College Coach of the Year: Mike Montgomery, Stanford
• CBS/Chevrolet Coach of the Year: Mike Krzyzewski, Duke
• Sporting News Coach of the Year: Bob Huggins, Cincinnati & Bill Self, Tulsa

• Pete Newell Big Man Award (Best big man): Marcus Fizer, Iowa State
• NABC Defensive Player of the Year: Shane Battier, Duke & Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (Best player under 6'0): Scoonie Penn, Ohio State
• Robert V. Geasey Trophy (Top player in Philadelphia Big 5): Pepe Sanchez, Temple
• NIT/Haggerty Award (Top player in New York City metro area): Craig "Speedy" Claxton, Hofstra
• Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award (Strong personal character): Eduardo Nájera, Oklahoma

A number of teams changed coaches throughout the season and after the season ended.{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/men/stats/2000/news.00coaches.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816033945/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/men/stats/2000/news.00coaches.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 16, 2000|title=NCAA Division I Men's College Basketball 2000 Coaching Changes|publisher=CNN/SI|access-date=February 7, 2009 | date=September 13, 2000}}

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