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The 1991 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 14, 1991, and ended with the championship game on April 1 in Indianapolis, Indiana .
On March 30, 1991, during the national semifinal of the 1991 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the Duke University Blue Devils played a college basketball game against the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Runnin' Rebels at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. The Blue Devils, who were seeded 2nd in the Midwest regional bracket ...
ACC Tournament March 9, 1991: No. 6 : vs. NC State ACC tournament semifinals: W 93–72 26–6: Charlotte Coliseum Charlotte, NC: March 10, 1991 Raycom (Locally) CBS (Nationally) No. 6 : vs. No. 7 North Carolina ACC Tournament Finals: L 74–96 26–7: Charlotte Coliseum Charlotte, NC: NCAA Tournament March 14, 1991 * CBS (2 MW) No. 6
The 1991–92 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team was a Division I college basketball team that competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Led by All-American Christian Laettner and Grant Hill , Duke won its 2nd national championship in as many years to become the first repeating team since UCLA 's seven-year dynasty from 1967 to 1973.
The game was played on April 1, 1991, at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana, and featured the Midwest Regional Champion, #2-seeded Duke versus the Southeast Regional Champion, #3-seeded Kansas.
Duke upset the heavily favored UNLV Runnin' Rebels 79–77 in the Final Four in 1991, a rematch of the 1990 final in which Duke lost by 30 points. The team, led by Christian Laettner , Bobby Hurley , Grant Hill , and Thomas Hill, went on to defeat Kansas 72–65 to win the university's first NCAA Championship. [ 12 ]
Oregon won the inaugural tournament, defeating Ohio State 46–33 in the first championship game. Before the 1941 tournament, control of the event was given to the NCAA. [11] In the early years of the tournament, it was considered less important than the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), a New York City-based event.
The 1990–91 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1990 and ended with the Final Four at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 1, 1991. The Duke Blue Devils won their first NCAA national championship with a 72–65 victory over the Kansas Jayhawks .