Cheryl Miller was the best player at USC, and had led the team to the national championship in 1984.
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Howard Porter of Villanova was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
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UCLA, coached by John Wooden, won the national title with a 68-62 victory in the final game over Villanova, coached by Jack Kraft.
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In the meantime, Villanova stars Howard Porter and Chris Ford overcame early struggles to keep the Wildcats in the game.
Kara Wolters scored 31 points, a single point under her career high while Jamelle Elliott matched her career high with 21 points.
Kara Lawson ran the offense, and scored a total of 19 points, of which 14 were scored in the second half, and ended up earning the Player of the Game award, helping her team win 64—54 and advance to the national championship.
Florida later defeated Ohio State 84–75 in the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament on April 2, 2007, marking both the first time in NCAA history that the same two schools have played for the football and basketball championships in the same year and the first time that a school has held both the football and basketball championships in the same academic and calendar year.
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In 2005 they also finished as the National Runner-Up.
Jacobson's biggest coaching accomplishment was in 2009–10, when the Panthers made a run into the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament highlighted by an upset of top national seed Kansas.
He was the men's basketball head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967) from 1961 to 1999, including the 1966 season when his team won the NCAA Tournament.
He was also a member of the Kansas Jayhawks' 1952 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship team.
Butler advanced to the Final Four, beating Michigan State before losing to Duke in the championship game.
Norwood's son Gabe, is a former member of the George Mason University basketball team that advanced to the 2006 NCAA Final Four.
In the second round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament, Lopez hit the game winning shot at the buzzer against the Marquette Golden Eagles to win 82-81 in overtime.
As such, he was a member of the 2005 national championship team that gave Coach Roy Williams his first ring.
The Terrapins accounted for six of the upsets at Cole, while the other one occurred in the 1966 Final Four where No. 3 Texas Western defeated No. 1 Kentucky.
On March 20 and 21, 2003, CBS provided Iraq War coverage during the afternoon sessions.
Clemente led Kansas State to the elite 8 round of the 2010 NCAA men's basketball tournament before losing to the Butler Bulldogs.
He averaged 15.7 points per game as a junior and, along with teammate and best friend Taquan Dean, led his 4th-seeded team to the 2005 Final Four in Saint Louis, Missouri.
BYU made it to the NCAA Final 8 with a team starring future NBA players Danny Ainge, Greg Kite and Fred Roberts.
In the 1990 tournament, the trio of Kenny Anderson, Dennis Scott, & Brian Oliver (nicknamed "Lethal Weapon 3") carried the Yellow Jackets all the way to the Final Four, where they lost to eventual champion UNLV in the national semi-finals.
Rödl's Tar Heels won the 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, making Rödl the second German to win an NCAA Title.
Sporting events hosted include the 2004 USA Men's Olympic basketball team in their only game played in the United States, as well as the first and second rounds of the 2006, 2010, and 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.
Herber, alongside with Kevin Pittsnogle and Mike Gansey, was a key player on the Mountaineers' NCAA regional finalists in 2005 and highly ranked 2006 team.
In 2005, after Mick Mixon became the play-by-play man for the Carolina Panthers, Angell succeeded him as longtime announcer Woody Durham's partner, and was on hand for two Final Fours and the Tar Heels' most recent national championship, in 2009.
In 2008, Kugler replaced Kevin Harlan as Westwood One's lead play-by-play voice for the Final Four and has called the games ever since alongside John Thompson and Bill Raftery.
During his six years as an Irish assistant coach under Muffet McGraw, Notre Dame went 160-39, including a national title in 2001.
Former University of Kentucky basketball star Jeff Sheppard, the Most Outstanding Player of the 1998 NCAA Tournament who briefly played in the NBA, now lives in London.
In three season at CU, she has compiled a record of 64-37 and guided the Lady Buffaloes to the 2013 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.
The 1962-1963 men's basketball team, led by coach George Ireland, won the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, by defeating the University of Cincinnati, 60-58, in the title game.
The three-year team captain helped the Utes to the NCAA Tournament in 1983 where they eliminated UCLA reaching the Sweet 16, and again in 1986 where they lost to North Carolina in the First round.
Since its Elite Eight appearance in 1999, it has successfully established itself as the closest thing to a major program in a mid-major conference, making the tournament field in every year since, even in years it failed to win the West Coast Conference tournament.
On the March 11, 2013 edition of Around the Horn, Torre boldly predicted Southern University would defeat Gonzaga the following Thursday and thus become the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the history of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament since the field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
Rick was a member of the Drake Bulldog basketball team that finished third in the 1969 NCAA basketball tournament.
With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the Mideast Regional.
It was believed the team was looking to sign Luke Schenscher – a member of the 2004 Georgia Tech team which went to the NCAA championship game against the University of Connecticut, and at the time an NBA Development League player – as its first marquee player.
In his senior year, the Alford-led 1986-87 Hoosiers won Indiana's fifth national championship against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament.
For the second week in a row, the show suffered in comparison to CBS footage of the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, which drew an average of 9.68 million household viewers during Parks and Rcreations 8:30 p.m. time-slot.
The spur's numerical designation commemorates the championship won by UTEP, then known as Texas Western University, in the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
"Revolution Get Down" was also used as a fade-to-commercial song during the 2006 NCAA Tournament in the George Mason-Florida semifinal on CBS Sports.
He led Thornridge to the 1972 IHSA state basketball championship, was co-captain of the 1976 national champion Indiana Hoosiers, won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, and had a ten year NBA career, including membership on the 1984 NBA Champion Boston Celtics.
During the 2007 NCAA Tournament, Leitch wrote a daily column for TimesSelect, the paid section of The New York Times.