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1976 NCAA Men's Division I
Basketball Tournament

Teams

Finals site

The Spectrum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Champions

Indiana (3rd title)

Runner-up

Michigan (2nd title game)

Semifinalists

Rutgers (1st Final Four)
UCLA (13th Final Four)

Winning coach

Bob Knight (1st title)

MOP

Kent Benson Indiana

Attendance

202,502

Top scorer

Scott May Indiana
(113 points)

NCAA Men's Division I Tournaments

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The 1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1976, and ended with the championship game on March 29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A total of 32 games were played, including a national third place game.

Indiana, coached by Bob Knight, won the national title with a 86–68 victory in the final game over Michigan, coached by Johnny Orr. Kent Benson of Indiana was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Notably, this was the first time that two teams from the same conference (the Big Ten) played in the title game. (Additionally, in July 2014 the Big Ten will be able to claim 3 of the 4 1976 Final Four participants as Rutgers will join the conference.) Also, this was the last men's Division I tournament to date to feature two unbeaten teams, as both Indiana and Rutgers entered the tournament unbeaten. To date, Indiana is the last team to go the entire season undefeated. Both advanced to the Final Four, with Indiana winning the title and Rutgers losing to Michigan in the semifinals and UCLA in the third-place game. The title game fell on the day of the 48th Academy Awards; word of the Hoosiers' victory reached the Academy Awards audience just as the award for Best Film Editing was about to be presented.

1 Locations
2 Teams
3 Bracket

Locations [edit]

Region	Site	Other locations
East	Greensboro, North Carolina	Charlotte, North Carolina, Providence, Rhode Island
Mideast	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	Dayton, Ohio, Notre Dame, Indiana
Midwest	Louisville, Kentucky	Denton, Texas, Lawrence, Kansas
West	Los Angeles, California	Eugene, Oregon, Tempe, Arizona
Finals	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	N/A

Teams [edit]

Region	Team	Coach	Finished	Final opponent	Score
East
East	Connecticut	Dee Rowe	Sweet Sixteen	Rutgers	L 93–79
East	DePaul	Ray Meyer	Sweet Sixteen	VMI	L 71–66
East	Hofstra	Roger Gaeckler	Round of 32	Connecticut	L 80–78
East	Princeton	Pete Carril	Round of 32	Rutgers	L 54–53
East	Rutgers	Tom Young	Fourth Place	UCLA	L 106–92
East	Tennessee	Ray Mears	Round of 32	VMI	L 81–75
East	Virginia	Terry Holland	Round of 32	DePaul	L 69–60
East	VMI	Bill Blair	Regional Runner-up	Rutgers	L 91–75
Mideast
Mideast	Alabama	C. M. Newton	Sweet Sixteen	Indiana	L 74–69
Mideast	Indiana	Bob Knight	Champion	Michigan	W 86–68
Mideast	Marquette	Al McGuire	Regional Runner-up	Indiana	L 65–56
Mideast	North Carolina	Dean Smith	Round of 32	Alabama	L 79–64
Mideast	St. John's	Lou Carnesecca	Round of 32	Indiana	L 90–70
Mideast	Virginia Tech	Don DeVoe	Round of 32	Western Michigan	L 77–67
Mideast	Western Kentucky	Jim Richards	Round of 32	Marquette	L 79–60
Mideast	Western Michigan	Eldon Miller	Sweet Sixteen	Marquette	L 62–57
Midwest
Midwest	Cincinnati	Gale Catlett	Round of 32	Notre Dame	L 79–78
Midwest	Michigan	Johnny Orr	Runner Up	Indiana	L 86–68
Midwest	Missouri	Norm Stewart	Regional Runner-up	Michigan	L 95–88
Midwest	Notre Dame	Digger Phelps	Sweet Sixteen	Michigan	L 80–76
Midwest	Syracuse	Roy Danforth	Round of 32	Texas Tech	L 69–56
Midwest	Texas Tech	Gerald Myers	Sweet Sixteen	Missouri	L 86–75
Midwest	Washington	Marv Harshman	Round of 32	Missouri	L 69–67
Midwest	Wichita State	Harry Miller	Round of 32	Michigan	L 74–73
West
West	Arizona	Fred Snowden	Regional Runner-up	UCLA	L 82–66
West	Boise State	Bus Connor	Round of 32	UNLV	L 103–78
West	Georgetown	John Thompson	Round of 32	Arizona	L 83–76
West	Memphis State	Wayne Yates	Round of 32	Pepperdine	L 87–77
West	UNLV	Jerry Tarkanian	Sweet Sixteen	Arizona	L 114–109
West	Pepperdine	Gary Colson	Sweet Sixteen	UCLA	L 70–61
West	San Diego State	Tim Vezie	Round of 32	UCLA	L 74–64
West	UCLA	Gene Bartow	Third Place	Rutgers	W 106–92

Bracket [edit]

East region [edit]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

DePaul

Virginia

DePaul

66*

VMI

Tennessee

VMI

Rutgers

Princeton

Rutgers

Connecticut

Connecticut

Hofstra

78*

Midwest region [edit]

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

	Michigan	74
	Wichita State	73
				Michigan	80

				Notre Dame	76
	Notre Dame	79

	Cincinnati	78
							Michigan	95
							Missouri	88
	Missouri	69
	Washington	67
				Missouri	86

				Texas Tech	75
	Texas Tech	69

	Syracuse	56

Mideast region [edit]

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

	Alabama	79
	North Carolina	64
				Alabama	69

				Indiana	74
	Indiana	90

	St. John's	70
							Indiana	65
							Marquette	56
	Marquette	79
	Western Kentucky	60
				Marquette	62

				Western Michigan	57
	Western Michigan	77

	Virginia Tech	67*

West region [edit]

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals

	Pepperdine	87
	Memphis State	77
				Pepperdine	61

				UCLA	70
	UCLA	74

	San Diego State	64
							UCLA	82
							Arizona	66
	UNLV	103
	Boise State	78
				UNLV	109*

				Arizona	114
	Arizona	83

	Georgetown	76

Final Four [edit]

National Semifinals			National Championship Game

E	Rutgers	70
MW	Michigan	86
			MW	Michigan	68
			ME	Indiana	86
ME	Indiana	65
W	UCLA	51	National Third Place Game
			E	Rutgers	92
			W	UCLA	106

v t e NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

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Structure	Selection process Opening Round Sweet Sixteen Elite Eight Final Four National Championship Game

Venues	Venues

Champions & awards	Champions Most Outstanding Player

Media & culture	Bracketology Final Four Broadcasters March Madness pools "One Shining Moment"

Records & statistics	All-time team records Bids by school Bids by school and conference Consecutive appearances Final Four appearances by school Final Four participants Final Four appearances by coach Elite Eight appearances by coach Upsets

v t e Indiana Hoosiers Men's Basketball 1975–76 NCAA Champions

20 Bob Wilkerson 21 Quinn Buckner 22 Wayne Radford 25 Bob Bender 33 Tom Abernethy 42 Scott May 45 Jim Crews 54 Kent Benson (MOP) Head Coach Bob Knight Assistant Coaches: Bob Donewald Bob Weltlich

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