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The 1979 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1979 NCAA Division I basketball tournament and determined the national champion for the 1978–79 season. [a] The game was held on March 26, at the Special Events Center (now the Jon M. Huntsman Center) at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. [5] [6]
The 1979 NCAA Division I basketball tournament involved 40 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 9 and ended with the championship game on March 26 in Salt Lake City. A total of 40 games were played, including a national third-place game.
The NCAA tournament expanded from 32 to 40 teams and used seeding to place all teams in its bracket for the first time. [3] The first public lottery for tickets to the NCAA tournament Final Four was held. [3] The championship game enjoyed the highest television rating in college basketball history. [2]
In NBC's final year covering the NCAA tournament, 1981, [9] the network introduced a policy of switching from game to game on the fly. Before this, NBC would naturally, stay with the regionally-televised games to their conclusion.
The 1949–50 CCNY team won both tournaments (defeating Bradley in both finals), and is the only college basketball team to accomplish this feat. [15] By the mid-1950s, the NCAA Tournament became the more prestigious of the two events, [ 16 ] and in 1971 the NCAA barred universities from playing in other tournaments, such as the NIT, if they ...
That NIT, and those three final fours between 1979 and 1981 may have been the high-water mark for Indiana college basketball, and those teams (along with some very good Notre Dame teams at the ...
Since 2010, the NCAA has had a joint contract with CBS and Warner Bros. Discovery.The coverage of the tournament is split between CBS, TNT, TBS, and truTV. [1]Broadcasters from CBS, TBS, and TNT's sports coverage are shared across all four networks, with CBS' college basketball teams supplemented with TNT's NBA teams, while studio segments take place at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York ...
The 1978–79 Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball team is considered the greatest in the school's history. The Sycamores competed as members of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1978–79 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, playing their home games at the Hulman Center in Terre Haute, Indiana.