High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1985 NCAA Men`s Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men`s NCAA Division I college basketball. This was the first year the field was expanded to 64 teams, from 53 in the previous year`s tournament. It began on March 14, 1985, and ended with the championship game on April 1 in Lexington, Kentucky. A total of 63 games were played.