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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 Final Four was the first in which all four schools came from east of the Mississippi River. This was the first NCAA tournament where three officials were assigned to all games. Several conferences, including the Big Ten and Southeastern, used three officials for its regular season games prior to the NCAA adopting it universally.
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]
The semifinals of the tournament are known as the Final Four and are held in a different city each year, along with the championship game; [8] Indianapolis, the city where the NCAA is based, will host the Final Four every five years until 2040. [9] Each winning university receives a rectangular, gold-plated trophy made of wood. [10]
The 1979–80 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 17, 1979, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1980 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament championship game on March 24, 1980, at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.
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.