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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
The 1980–81 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. Led by senior guard-forward Al Wood , it won the 1981 ACC Tournament and reached the championship of the NCAA Tournament, falling to Indiana University 63–50.
Before South Carolina’s win over No. 1 Alabama in 2010, it was this victory over the Tar Heels that ranked as the biggest upset in USC program history.
The 1980–81 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Bobby Knight , who was in his 10th year. The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana , and was a member of the Big Ten Conference .
Here’s a quick look at the results of the seven games in the series played from 1940 to 1981. Two of the games — 1940 and 1953 — were NCAA championship contests. Indiana stopped KU 60-42 in ...
After a nearly even first half, the Indiana Hoosiers pulled away from the North Carolina Tar Heels to clinch the school's fourth national championship, 63–50, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The win marked Hoosiers had coach Bob Knight 's second championship and marked North Carolina head coach Dean Smith 's sixth trip to the Final Four ...
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