1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Season	1985–86
Teams	64
Finals site	Reunion Arena Dallas, Texas
Champions	Louisville (2nd title, 2nd title game, 7th Final Four)
Runner-up	Duke (3rd title game, 5th Final Four)
Semifinalists	Kansas (7th Final Four) LSU (3rd Final Four)
Winning coach	Denny Crum (2nd title)
MOP	Pervis Ellison Louisville
Attendance	499,704
Top scorer	Johnny Dawkins Duke (153 points)
NCAA Men's Division I Tournaments «1985 1987»

The 1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1986, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in Dallas, Texas. A total of 63 games were played.

Louisville, coached by Denny Crum, won the national title with a 72-69 victory in the final game over Duke, coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Pervis Ellison of Louisville was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

The 1986 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament was the first tournament to use a shot clock limiting the amount of time for any one offensive possession by a team prior to taking a shot at the basket. Beginning with the 1986 tournament, the shot clock was set at 45 seconds, which it would remain until being shortened to 35 seconds beginning in the 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, and further shortened to 30 seconds starting with the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The 1986 tournament was also the last to not feature the Three-Point Shot.

LSU's 1985-86 team is tied for the lowest-seeded team (#11) to ever make the Final Four (with George Mason's 2005–2006 team and VCU's 2010-2011 team). As of 2013, they are the only team in tournament history to beat the top 3 seeds from their region. LSU began its run to the Final Four by winning two games on its home court, leading to a change two years later which prohibited teams from playing NCAA tournament games on a court which they have played four or more games in the regular season. Cleveland State University became the first #14 seed to reach the Sweet Sixteen, losing to their fellow underdog, Navy, by a single point. This was also the first year in which two #14 seeds reached the second round in the same year, as Arkansas-Little Rock beat #3-seed Notre Dame; however, they lost their second-round game in overtime. Both feats have only occurred one other time. Chattanooga reached the Sweet Sixteen as a 14-seed in 1997, and Old Dominion and Weber State both reached the second round as 14-seeds in 1995.

Every regional final featured a #1 or #2 seed playing a team seeded #6 or lower. The lone #1 seed to not reach the Elite Eight, St. John's (West), was knocked out in the second round by #8 Auburn, which lost to #2 Louisville in the regional final.

It can be argued that these upsets by the 14-seeds launched the NCAA Tournament's reputation for having unknown teams surprise well-known basketball powers, and both happened on the same day. Indiana's stunning loss would be part of the climax in the best-selling book A Season On The Brink.

Another story of the tournament was when Navy reached the Elite 8 thanks to stunning performances by David Robinson.

Locations

Baton Rouge

Dayton

Charlotte

Syracuse

Greensboro

Minneapolis

Long Beach

Ogden

1986 first and second rounds

Houston

Atlanta

Kansas City

E. Rutherford

Dallas

1986 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red)

First and second rounds

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LSU Assembly Center)
• Charlotte, North Carolina (Charlotte Coliseum)
• Dayton, Ohio (University of Dayton Arena)
• Greensboro, North Carolina (Greensboro Coliseum)
• Long Beach, California (Long Beach Arena)
• Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome)
• Ogden, Utah (Dee Events Center)
• Syracuse, New York (Carrier Dome)

Later rounds

Region	Site
East	East Rutherford, New Jersey (Meadowlands Arena)
Midwest	Kansas City, Missouri (Kemper Arena)
Southeast	Atlanta, Georgia (Omni Coliseum)
West	Houston, Texas (The Summit)
Finals	Dallas, Texas (Reunion Arena)

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final opponent	Score
West
West	1	St. John's	Lou Carnesecca	Round of 32	8 Auburn	L 81-65
West	2	Louisville	Denny Crum	Champion	1 Duke	W 72-69
West	3	North Carolina	Dean Smith	Sweet Sixteen	2 Louisville	L 94-79
West	4	UNLV	Jerry Tarkanian	Sweet Sixteen	8 Auburn	L 70-63
West	5	Maryland	Lefty Driesell	Round of 32	4 UNLV	L 70-64
West	6	UAB	Gene Bartow	Round of 32	3 North Carolina	L 77-59
West	7	Bradley	Dick Versace	Round of 32	2 Louisville	L 82-68
West	8	Auburn	Sonny Smith	Regional Runner-up	2 Louisville	L 84-76
West	9	Arizona	Lute Olson	Round of 64	8 Auburn	L 73-63
West	10	UTEP	Don Haskins	Round of 64	7 Bradley	L 83-65
West	11	Missouri	Norm Stewart	Round of 64	6 UAB	L 66-64
West	12	Pepperdine	Jim Harrick	Round of 64	5 Maryland	L 69-64
West	13	Northeast Louisiana	Mike Vining	Round of 64	4 UNLV	L 74-51
West	14	Utah	Lynn Archibald	Round of 64	3 North Carolina	L 84-72
West	15	Drexel	Eddie Burke	Round of 64	2 Louisville	L 93-73
West	16	Montana State	Stu Starner	Round of 64	1 St. John's	L 83-74
Midwest
Midwest	1	Kansas	Larry Brown	National Semifinals	1 Duke	L 71-67
Midwest	2	Michigan	Bill Frieder	Round of 32	7 Iowa State	L 72-69
Midwest	3	Notre Dame	Digger Phelps	Round of 64	14 Arkansas-Little Rock	L 90-83
Midwest	4	Georgetown	John Thompson	Round of 32	5 Michigan State	L 80-68
Midwest	5	Michigan State	Jud Heathcote	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kansas	L 96-86
Midwest	6	North Carolina State	Jim Valvano	Regional Runner-up	1 Kansas	L 75-67
Midwest	7	Iowa State	Johnny Orr	Sweet Sixteen	6 North Carolina State	L 70-66
Midwest	8	Jacksonville	Bob Wenzel	Round of 64	9 Temple	L 61-50
Midwest	9	Temple	John Chaney	Round of 32	1 Kansas	L 65-43
Midwest	10	Miami, Ohio	Jerry Peirson	Round of 64	7 Iowa State	L 81-79
Midwest	11	Iowa	George Raveling	Round of 64	6 North Carolina State	L 66-64
Midwest	12	Washington	Andy Russo	Round of 64	5 Michigan State	L 72-70
Midwest	13	Texas Tech	Gerald Myers	Round of 64	4 Georgetown	L 70-64
Midwest	14	Arkansas-Little Rock	Mike Newell	Round of 32	6 North Carolina State	L 80-66
Midwest	15	Akron	Bob Huggins	Round of 64	2 Michigan	L 70-64
Midwest	16	North Carolina A&T	Don Corbett	Round of 64	1 Kansas	L 71-46
Southeast
Southeast	1	Kentucky	Eddie Sutton	Regional Runner-up	11 LSU	L 59-57
Southeast	2	Georgia Tech	Bobby Cremins	Sweet Sixteen	11 LSU	L 70-64
Southeast	3	Memphis State (Vacated)	Dana Kirk	Round of 32	11 LSU	L 83-81
Southeast	4	Illinois	Lou Henson	Round of 32	5 Alabama	L 58-56
Southeast	5	Alabama	Wimp Sanderson	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kentucky	L 68-63
Southeast	6	Purdue	Gene Keady	Round of 64	11 LSU	L 94-87
Southeast	7	Virginia Tech	Charles Moir	Round of 64	10 Villanova	L 71-62
Southeast	8	Western Kentucky	Clem Haskins	Round of 32	1 Kentucky	L 71-64
Southeast	9	Nebraska	Moe Iba	Round of 64	8 Western Kentucky	L 67-59
Southeast	10	Villanova	Rollie Massimino	Round of 32	2 Georgia Tech	L 66-61
Southeast	11	LSU	Dale Brown	National Semifinals	2 Louisville	L 88-77
Southeast	12	Xavier	Pete Gillen	Round of 64	5 Alabama	L 97-80
Southeast	13	Fairfield	Mitch Buonaguro	Round of 64	4 Illinois	L 75-51
Southeast	14	Ball State	Al Brown	Round of 64	3 Memphis	L 95-63
Southeast	15	Marist	Matt Furjanic	Round of 64	2 Georgia Tech	L 68-53
Southeast	16	Davidson	Bobby Hussey	Round of 64	1 Kentucky	L 75-55
East
East	1	Duke	Mike Krzyzewski	Runner Up	2 Louisville	L 72-69
East	2	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Round of 32	7 Navy	L 97-85
East	3	Indiana	Bob Knight	Round of 64	14 Cleveland State	L 83-79
East	4	Oklahoma	Billy Tubbs	Round of 32	12 DePaul	L 74-69
East	5	Virginia	Terry Holland	Round of 64	12 DePaul	L 72-68
East	6	Saint Joseph's	Jim Boyle	Round of 32	14 Cleveland State	L 75-69
East	7	Navy	Paul Evans	Regional Runner-up	1 Duke	L 71-50
East	8	Old Dominion	Tom Young	Round of 32	1 Duke	L 89-61
East	9	West Virginia	Gale Catlett	Round of 64	8 Old Dominion	L 72-64
East	10	Tulsa	J. D. Barnett	Round of 64	7 Navy	L 87-68
East	11	Richmond	Dick Tarrant	Round of 64	6 Saint Joseph's	L 60-59
East	12	DePaul	Joey Meyer	Sweet Sixteen	1 Duke	L 74-67
East	13	Northeastern	Jim Calhoun	Round of 64	4 Oklahoma	L 80-74
East	14	Cleveland State	Kevin Mackey	Sweet Sixteen	7 Navy	L 71-70
East	15	Brown	Mike Cingiser	Round of 64	2 Syracuse	L 101-52
East	16	Mississippi Valley State	Lafayette Stribling	Round of 64	1 Duke	L 85-78

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

East Regional - East Rutherford, New Jersey

	First round					Second round					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	Duke	85
	16	Mississippi Valley St	78
						1	Duke	89
	Greensboro
						8	Old Dominion	61
	8	Old Dominion	72
	9	West Virginia	64
											1	Duke	74
											12	DePaul	67
	5	Virginia	68
	12	DePaul	72
						12	DePaul	74
	Greensboro
						4	Oklahoma	69
	4	Oklahoma	80
	13	Northeastern	74
																1	Duke	71
																7	Navy	50
	6	St Joseph's	60
	11	Richmond	59
						6	St Joseph's	69
	Syracuse
						14	Cleveland St.	75
	3	Indiana	79
	14	Cleveland St.	83
											14	Cleveland St.	70
											7	Navy	71
	7	Navy	87
	10	Tulsa	68
						7	Navy	97
	Syracuse
						2	Syracuse	85
	2	Syracuse	101
	15	Brown	52

Midwest Regional - Kansas City, Missouri

	First round					Second round					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	Kansas	71
	16	North Carolina A&T	46
						1	Kansas	65
	Dayton
						9	Temple	43
	8	Jacksonville	50*
	9	Temple	61
											1	Kansas	96
											5	Michigan St.	86*
	5	Michigan St.	72
	12	Washington	70
						5	Michigan St.	80
	Dayton
						4	Georgetown	68
	4	Georgetown	70
	13	Texas Tech	64
																1	Kansas	75
																6	N.C. State	67
	6	N.C. State	66
	11	Iowa	64
						6	N.C. State	80
	Minneapolis
						14	Arkansas Little Rock	66*
	3	Notre Dame	83
	14	Arkansas Little Rock	90
											6	N.C. State	70
											7	Iowa St.	66
	7	Iowa St.	81
	10	Miami-OH	79*
						7	Iowa St.	72
	Minneapolis
						2	Michigan	69
	2	Michigan	70
	15	Akron	64

Southeast Regional - Atlanta, Georgia

	First round					Second round					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	Kentucky	75
	16	Davidson	55
						1	Kentucky	71
	Charlotte
						8	Western Kentucky	64
	8	Western Kentucky	67
	9	Nebraska	59
											1	Kentucky	68
											5	Alabama	63
	5	Alabama	97
	12	Xavier	80
						5	Alabama	58
	Charlotte
						4	Illinois	56
	4	Illinois	75
	13	Fairfield	51
																1	Kentucky	57
																11	LSU	59
	6	Purdue	87**
	11	LSU	94
						11	LSU	83
	Baton Rouge
						3	Memphis St.	81
	3	Memphis St.	95
	14	Ball St	63
											11	LSU	70
											2	Georgia Tech	64
	7	Virginia Tech	62
	10	Villanova	71
						10	Villanova	61
	Baton Rouge
						2	Georgia Tech	66
	2	Georgia Tech	68
	15	Marist	53

West Regional - Houston, Texas

	First round					Second round					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	St John's	83
	16	Montana St	74
						1	St John's	65
	Long Beach
						8	Auburn	81
	8	Auburn	73
	9	Arizona	63
											8	Auburn	70
											4	UNLV	63
	5	Maryland	69
	12	Pepperdine	64
						5	Maryland	64
	Long Beach
						4	UNLV	70
	4	UNLV	74
	13	Northeast Louisiana	51
																8	Auburn	76
																2	Louisville	84
	6	UAB	66
	11	Missouri	64
						6	UAB	59
	Ogden
						3	North Carolina	77
	3	North Carolina	84
	14	Utah	72
											3	North Carolina	79
											2	Louisville	94
	7	Bradley	83
	10	UTEP	65
						7	Bradley	68
	Ogden
						2	Louisville	82
	2	Louisville	93
	15	Drexel	73

Final Four @ Dallas, Texas

	National Semifinals					National Championship Game
	E1	Duke	71
	M1	Kansas	67
						E1	Duke	69
						W2	Louisville	72
	S11	LSU	77
	W2	Louisville	88

Announcers

• Brent Musburger or Dick Stockton and Billy Packer
• Dick Stockton and Larry Conley
• Gary Bender and Doug Collins
• Verne Lundquist and James Brown