1977 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game

1977 NCAA Tournament Championship Game
National Championship Game
North Carolina Tar Heels Marquette Warriors (28-4) (23-7) 59 67 Head coach:  Dean Smith Head coach:  Al McGuire AP 5 AP 7 1 2 Total North Carolina 27 32 59 Marquette 39 28 67
Date	March 28, 1977
Arena	The Omni
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
Referee	Reggie Copeland & Bob Wortman[1]
United States TV coverage
Network	NBC
Announcers	Curt Gowdy, Dick Enberg, and Billy Packer

The 1977 NCAA Men's 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 match-up was the final one of the thirty-ninth consecutive NCAA Men's Division I 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]

Box score

Source:^[3][4]

March 28, 1977

Marquette Warriors 67, 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

The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia Referees: Reggie Copeland & Bob Wortman

References

Citations

1. "The Final Four" (pdf). 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four Records. NCAA. 2014. p. 20. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
2. Hager 2012, p. 21.
3. 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.
4. "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.