1977 NCAA Division I basketball championship game

1977 NCAA Division I basketball tournament August 2023 March 2026 1977 NCAA Tournament Championship Game ncg NCAA 70s logo.svg March 28, 1977 1976–77 University of North Carolina North Carolina Tar Heels 28–4 ACC 5 3 Dean Smith 27 32 Marquette University Marquette Warriors 23–7 Independent 7 14 Al McGuire 39 28 The Omni Atlanta, Georgia NBC Curt Gowdy, Dick Enberg, and Billy Packer 16,086 Reggie Copeland & Paul GalvanThe Final Four http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_final4/2014/1FinalFour.pdf 2014 December 9, 2014 20 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four Records NCAA 1976 1978 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.Hager 2012 21 Box score Source:http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/history/yearbyyear/1977 1977 Men's NCAA basketball tournament Jeff Borzello CBSSports.com CBS Broadcasting Inc. December 9, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001642/http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/ncaa-tournament/history/yearbyyear/1977 March 4, 2016 live North Carolina vs. Marquette Box Score, March 28, 1977 sports-reference.com Sports Reference LLC 2010 https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1977-03-28-marquette.html December 9, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20160306022906/http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1977-03-28-marquette.html March 6, 2016 live #eee March 28, 1977   #7 Marquette Warriors | score1 = 67 #5 North Carolina Tar Heels 59 39–27 28–32 Butch Lee – 19 Jerome Whitehead – 11 Bo Ellis – 3 Walter Davis – 20 Mike O'Koren – 11 John Kuester – 6 The OmniAtlanta, Georgia 16,086 Reggie Copeland & Paul Galvan NBC References Citations 30em Bibliography Hager Tom The Ultimate Book of March Madness: The Players, Games, and Cinderellas that Captivated a Nation MVP Books 2012 Minneapolis, Minnesota https://books.google.com/books?id=LOBJLe48s0IC 978-0-7603-4323-4 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game Category:NCAA Division I men's basketball championship games Category:Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball Category:North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball Category:College sports in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Basketball competitions in Atlanta NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game