1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Teams	22
Finals Site	Cole Field House College Park, Maryland
Champions	Texas Western (1st title)
Runner-Up	Kentucky (5th title game)
Semifinalists	Duke (3rd Final Four) Utah (3rd Final Four)
Winning Coach	Don Haskins (1st title)
MOP	Jerry Chambers Utah
Attendance	140,925
Top scorer	Jerry Chambers Utah (143 points)
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournaments «1965  1967»

The 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 7, 1966, and ended with the championship game on March 19 in College Park, Maryland. A total of 26 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.

Texas Western, coached by Don Haskins, won the national title with a 72-65 victory in the final game over Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. Coach Haskins started five black players for the first time in NCAA Championship history. Jerry Chambers of Utah was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The 2006 film Glory Road is based on the story of the 1966 Texas Western team.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Teams 3 Bracket 3.1 East region 3.2 Mideast region 3.3 Midwest region 3.4 West region 3.5 Final Four 4 Game Summaries 5 See also 6 External links 7 References

[edit] Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	Raleigh, North Carolina	Blacksburg, Virginia
Mideast	Iowa City, Iowa	Kent, Ohio
Midwest	Lubbock, Texas	Wichita, Kansas
West	Los Angeles, California	Wichita, Kansas
Finals	College Park, Maryland

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[edit] Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent
East
East	n/a	Davidson	Lefty Driesell	Regional Fourth Place	Syracuse
East	n/a	Duke	Vic Bubas	Third Place	Kentucky
East	n/a	Providence	Joe Mullaney	First round	Saint Joseph's
East	n/a	Rhode Island	Ernie Calverley	First round	Davidson
East	n/a	Saint Joseph's	Jack Ramsey	Regional Third Place	Duke
East	n/a	Syracuse	Fred Lewis	Elite Eight	Duke
Mideast
Mideast	n/a	Dayton	Don Donoher	Regional Fourth Place	Western Kentucky
Mideast	n/a	Kentucky	Adolph Rupp	Runner Up	Texas Western
Mideast	n/a	Loyola, Chicago	George Ireland	First round	Western Kentucky
Mideast	n/a	Miami, Ohio	Dick Shrider	First round	Dayton
Mideast	n/a	Michigan	Dave Strack	Elite Eight	Kentucky
Mideast	n/a	Western Kentucky	Johnny Oldham	Regional Third Place	Dayton
Midwest
Midwest	n/a	Cincinnati	Tay Baker	Regional Fourth Place	SMU
Midwest	n/a	Kansas	Ted Owens	Elite Eight	Texas Western
Midwest	n/a	Oklahoma City	Abe Lemons	First round	Texas Western
Midwest	n/a	SMU	Doc Hayes	Regional Third Place	Cincinnati
Midwest	n/a	Texas Western	Don Haskins	Champion	Kentucky
West
West	n/a	Colorado State	Jim Williams	First round	Houston
West	n/a	Houston	Guy Lewis	Regional Third Place	Pacific
West	n/a	Oregon State	Paul Valenti	Elite Eight	Utah
West	n/a	Pacific	Dick Edwards	Regional Fourth Place	Houston
West	n/a	Utah	Jack Gardner	Fourth Place	Texas Western

[edit] Bracket

[edit] East region

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
							Duke	76
							St. Joseph's	74
		St. Joseph's	65
		Providence	48
												Duke	91
												Syracuse	81
							Syracuse	94
							Davidson	78
		Davidson	95
		Rhode Island	65

[edit] Mideast region

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
							Kentucky	86
							Dayton	79
		Dayton	58
		Miami-OH	51
												Kentucky	84
												Michigan	77
							Michigan	80
							Western Kentucky	79
		Western Kentucky	105
		Loyola-IL	86

[edit] Midwest region

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Kansas

76

SMU

70

Kansas

80

Texas Western

81

Cincinnati

76

Texas Western

78

Texas Western

89

Oklahoma City

[edit] West region

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
							Utah	83
							Pacific	74
												Utah	70
												Oregon State	64
							Oregon State	63
							Houston	60
		Houston	82
		Colorado State	76

[edit] Final Four

	National Semifinals					National Finals
		Duke	79
		Kentucky	83
							Kentucky	65
							Texas Western	72
		Texas Western	85
		Utah	78

[edit] Game Summaries

The Tournament is most remembered for the all-black starting five of Texas Western defeating an all-white Kentucky team in the championship game.^[1] In the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Loyola started four African-Americans and Cincinnati started three. That was the first time that a majority of African-Americans participated in the championship game.

Clem Haskins and Dwight Smith became the first black athletes to integrate the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball program in the Fall of 1963.^[2] This put Western Kentucky at the forefront to integrate college basketball in the Southeast.^[3] The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers were 2 points away from defeating Michigan and meeting the University of Kentucky Wildcats in the Mideast regional final. A controversial foul called against Smith during a jump ball put Cazzie Russell on the free throw line for Michigan, where he scored the tying and winning baskets.^[4]

[edit] See also

• 1966 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
• 1966 National Invitation Tournament
• Black participation in college basketball

[edit] External links

• 1966 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)
• HoopsTournament.Net, source for much of the information on this page.

[edit] References

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