NCAA Tournament History

Finals History
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Winning Coach
2004	UCONN	82-73	Georgia Tech	Jim Calhoun
2003	Syracuse	81-78	Kansas	Jim Boeheim
2002	Maryland	64-52	Indiana	Gary Williams
2001	Duke	82-72	Arizona	Mike Krzyzewski
2000	Michigan St.	89-76	Florida	Tom Izzo
1999	Connecticut	77-74	Duke	Jim Calhoun
1998	Kentucky	78-69	Utah	Tubby Smith
1997	Arizona	84-79 (OT)	Kentucky	Lute Olson
1996	Kentucky	76-67	Syracuse	Rick Pitino
1995	UCLA	89-78	Arkansas	Jim Harrick
1994	Arkansas	76-72	Duke	Nolan Richardson
1993	North Carolina	77-71	Michigan	Dean Smith
1992	Duke	71-51	Michigan	Mike Krzyzewski
1991	Duke	72-65	Kansas	Mike Krzyzewski
1990	UNLV	103-73	Duke	Jerry Tarkanian
1989	Michigan	80-79 (OT)	Seton Hall	Steve Fisher
1988	Kansas	83-79	Oklahoma	Larry Brown
1987	Indiana	74-73	Syracuse	Bob Knight
1986	Louisville	72-69	Duke	Denny Crum
1985	Villanova	66-64	Georgetown	Rollie Massimino
1984	Georgetown	84-75	Houston	John Thompson
1983	N.C. State	54-52	Houston	Jim Valvano
1982	North Carolina	63-62	Georgetown	Dean Smith
1981	Indiana	63-50	North Carolina	Bob Knight
1980	Louisville	59-54	Vacated	Denny Crum
1979	Michigan St.	75-64	Indiana St.	Jud Heathcote
1978	Kentucky	94-88	Duke	Joe Hall
1977	Marquette	67-59	North Carolina	Al McGuire
1976	Indiana	86-68	Michigan	Bob Knight
1975	UCLA	92-85	Kentucky	John Wooden
1974	N.C. State	76-64	Marquette	Norm Sloan
1973	UCLA	87-66	Memphis State	John Wooden
1972	UCLA	81-76	Florida State	John Wooden
1971	UCLA	68-62	Vacated	John Wooden
1970	UCLA	80-69	Jacksonville	John Wooden
1969	UCLA	92-72	Purdue	John Wooden
1968	UCLA	78-55	North Carolina	John Wooden
1967	UCLA	79-64	Dayton	John Wooden
1966	UTEP	72-65	Kentucky	Don Haskins
1965	UCLA	91-80	Michigan	John Wooden
1964	UCLA	98-83	Duke	John Wooden
1963	Loyola (IL)	60-58 (OT)	Cincinnati	George Ireland
1962	Cincinnati	71-59	Ohio State	Edwin Jucker
1961	Cincinnati	70-65 (OT)	Ohio State	Edwin Jucker
1960	Ohio State	75-55	California	Fred Taylor
1959	California	71-70	West Virginia	Pete Newell
1958	Kentucky	84-72	Seattle	Adolph Rupp
1957	North Carolina	54-53 (3OT)	Kansas	Frank McGuire
1956	San Francisco	83-71	Iowa	Phil Woolpert
1955	San Francisco	77-63	La Salle	Phil Woolpert
1954	La Salle	92-76	Bradley	Kenneth Loeffler
1953	Indiana	69-68	Kansas	Branch McCracken
1952	Kansas	80-63	St. John's	Forrest Allen
1951	Kentucky	68-58	Kansas St.	Adolph Rupp
1950	CCNY	71-68	Bradley	Nat Holman
1949	Kentucky	46-36	Oklahoma St.	Adolph Rupp
1948	Kentucky	58-42	Baylor	Adolph Rupp
1947	Holy Cross	58-47	Oklahoma	Alvin Julian
1946	Oklahoma St.	43-40	North Carolina	Hank Iba
1945	Oklahoma St.	49-45	NYU	Hank Iba
1944	Utah	42-40 (OT)	Dartmouth	Vadal Peterson
1943	Wyoming	46-34	Georgetown	Everett Shelton
1942	Stanford	53-38	Dartmouth	Everett Dean
1941	Wisconsin	39-34	Washington St.	Harold Foster
1940	Indiana	60-42	Kansas	Branch McCracken
1939	Oregon	46-33	Ohio St.	Howard Hobson

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