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Howard Cosell criticized the NCAA for not postponing the game due to the Reagan assassination attempt. Indiana defeated North Carolina by a 63–50 score to win their second national title in six years and fourth overall. As of 2024, this remains the only time a team from the Big Ten defeated an ACC team in the championship game.
The matchup was the final one of the thirty-ninth consecutive NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship single-elimination tournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is used to crown a national champion for men's basketball at the Division I level. [2]
National Championship Game Monday, March 28 E North Carolina: 84: W UNLV 83 E North Carolina 59 MW Marquette: 67: ME UNC Charlotte 49 MW Marquette: 51: National third-place game W UNLV: 106: ME UNC Charlotte 94
The 1980–81 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Bobby Knight , who was in his 10th year. The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana , and was a member of the Big Ten Conference .
The 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final round of the 1987 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and determined the national champion for the 1986–87 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on March 30, 1987, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, and featured the Midwest Regional Champion, #1-seeded Indiana and the ...
North Carolina State basketball coach Norm Sloan displays his emotions on the bench during their double overtime 80-77 victory over UCLA in the NCAA semifinals in Greensboro, N.C., March 25, 1974.
The tournament began on March 9, 1974, and ended with the championship game on March 25 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Until 2019, when Virginia defeated Texas Tech, it was the last tournament in which neither school had previously appeared in any national championship game at any level. A total of 29 games were played, including a third-place ...
This was the first national championship game since 1966 to not feature the UCLA Bruins. NC State defeated Marquette to win their first national championship in program history, becoming only the second team from the ACC to win the national championship after North Carolina in 1957.