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Order restored: NCAA 1st round follows First Four

The NCAA took the confusion out of how the games of the men's basketball tournament's first weekend are referenced.

The first round will again simply mean the round of 64 or the Thursday and Friday games that many still view as the beginning of the tournament.

From 2011 until last season, that first game for 60 teams was called the second round and the third round determined a berth in the Sweet 16.