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Howard Cosell criticized the NCAA for not postponing the game due to the Reagan assassination attempt. Indiana defeated North Carolina by a 63–50 score to win their second national title in six years and fourth overall. As of 2024, this remains the only time a team from the Big Ten defeated an ACC team in the championship game.
1981 NCAA Division I basketball tournament; Season: 1980–81: Teams: 48: Finals site: The Spectrum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Champions: Indiana Hoosiers (4th title, 4th title game, 5th Final Four) Runner-up: North Carolina Tar Heels (5th title game, 8th Final Four) Semifinalists
Greensboro, North Carolina: Dec 13, 1980 * South Florida: W 73–64 6–1: Carmichael Auditorium Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Dec 20, 1980 * No. 8 : No. 11 Indiana: W 65–56 7–1: Carmichael Auditorium Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Dec 22, 1980 * Rutgers: W 71–64 8–1: Carmichael Auditorium Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Dec 29, 1980 * No. 6 ...
The 1981–82 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. The team played its home games in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Led by James Worthy, Sam Perkins and freshman Michael Jordan, the Tar Heels won the National Championship.
The Tar Heels have played their games at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina since 1986. As of the 2009–10 season, North Carolina had the second most wins and the second highest winning percentage of any NCAA Division I men's team with a record of 2,004 wins and 720 losses over 100 seasons. [1]
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The 1981–82 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 27, 1981, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1982 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament championship game on March 29, 1982, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
From 1946 to 1981, a consolation game was conducted before the Championship for the losing teams of the National Semifinals; the winning team was awarded third place and the losing team was awarded fourth place. In 1982, the NCAA eliminated the game and the two losing teams of the semifinal games are considered tied for third place in the ...