The 1977 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game took place on March 28, 1977, between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Marquette Warriors at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. 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]
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| Date | March 28, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Reggie Copeland & Paul Galvan[1] | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 16,086 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy, Dick Enberg, and Billy Packer | ||||||||||||
Box score
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| #7 Marquette Warriors 67, #5 North Carolina Tar Heels 59 | ||
| Scoring by half: 39–27, 28–32 | ||
| Pts: Butch Lee – 19 Rebs: Jerome Whitehead – 11 Asts: Bo Ellis – 3 |
Pts: Walter Davis – 20 Rebs: Mike O'Koren – 11 Asts: John Kuester – 6 | |
References
edit- Citations
- ^ "The Final Four" (PDF). 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four Records. NCAA. 2014. p. 20. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
- ^ Hager 2012, p. 21.
- ^ Jeff Borzello. "1977 Men's NCAA basketball tournament". CBSSports.com. CBS Broadcasting Inc. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
- ^ "North Carolina vs. Marquette Box Score, March 28, 1977". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
- Bibliography
- Hager, Tom (2012). The Ultimate Book of March Madness: The Players, Games, and Cinderellas that Captivated a Nation. Minneapolis, Minnesota: MVP Books. ISBN 978-0-7603-4323-4.