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The 1963–64 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won its first NCAA National Basketball Championship under head coach John R. Wooden in his 16th year at UCLA. Assistant coach Jerry Norman convinced a reluctant Wooden to use the zone press , which the team had never utilized before.
No. 11 seed UCLA became the second First Four team to reach the Final Four, the school's first national semifinal since 2008, [65] which had also been their last trip to the Elite Eight. [66] In 2022–23 , the Bruins received a No. 2 seed in the 2023 NCAA tournament , their highest seeding since they were placed No. 1 in 2008 . [ 67 ]
The VCU Rams men's college basketball team competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I, representing Virginia Commonwealth University in the Atlantic 10 Conference. [1] VCU has played its home games at Stuart C. Siegel Center in Richmond, Virginia since its opening in 1999.
VCU received their first bid to the NCAA tournament in the 1979–1980 season with an 18–12 overall record and Sun Belt Conference tournament championship led by then first-year VCU Head Coach J.D. Barnett in VCU's first season in the Sun Belt. They entered the tournament as a No. 12 seed in the East Region and were eliminated in the first ...
University of Miami President Julio Frenk, a Mexico-born global health expert, will be the first Latino to lead UCLA, having won UC regents' unanimous approval.
The 2011 NCAA tournament run by VCU is regarded by some as one of the best Cinderella runs of all time. [3] They are the first men's Division I basketball team that played in the First Four to make it to the Final Four; UCLA made a similar run ten years later. They also join the 2020–21 Bruins as the only teams in the tournament to win five ...
UCLA drew nearly 140,000 first-year applications for about 6,600 spotsin fall 2021and even more applications ... UCLA has not yet said how many students it will admit as 2023-24 first-year ...
During his time with VCU, Capel compiled a 79–41 record (.658), and in his first year earned VCU 18 wins, the most ever for a first-year coach at the school. In April 2006, Capel announced his decision to coach the University of Oklahoma basketball team .