1976 NCAA Division I basketball championship game information
Basketball game
1976 NCAA Tournament Championship Game
National championship game
Indiana Hoosiers
Michigan Wolverines
Big Ten
Big Ten
(31–0)
(25–6)
86
68
Head coach: Bob Knight
Head coach: Johnny Orr
AP: 1
Coaches: 1
AP: 9[1]
Coaches: 9
1st half
2nd half
Total
Indiana Hoosiers
29
57
86
Michigan Wolverines
35
33
68
Date
March 29, 1976
Venue
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Referees
Irv Brown, Bob Wortman[2]
Attendance
17,540
United States TV coverage
Network
NBC[3]
Announcers
Curt Gowdy and Dick Enberg[3]
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1977 →
The 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1976 NCAA Division I basketball tournament and determined the national champion for the 1975–76 season. The game was held at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 29, 1976. In a matchup of two Big Ten Conference teams, the Indiana Hoosiers defeated the Michigan Wolverines 86–68 to earn the university's third championship. The Hoosiers' victory concluded the last undefeated season in Division I men's college basketball.
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^2020 NCAA Final Four Records Book(PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2019. p. 297. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
^ abHalberstam, David J. (April 5, 2020). "No NCAA title game Monday night; But the 57-year TV history of the Final Four is full of characters". Sports Broadcast Journal. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
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