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| Date | March 28, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | The Omni,Atlanta,Georgia | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Reggie Copeland & Paul Galvan[1] | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 16,086 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy,Dick Enberg, andBilly Packer | ||||||||||||
The1977 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game took place on March 28, 1977, between theNorth Carolina Tar Heels and theMarquette Warriors atThe Omni inAtlanta,Georgia. The matchup was the final one of the thirty-ninth consecutiveNCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championshipsingle-eliminationtournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by theNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is used to crown anational champion for men's basketball at the Division I level.[2]
March 28, 1977 |
| #7Marquette Warriors 67, #5North Carolina Tar Heels 59 | ||
| Scoring by half: 39–27, 28–32 | ||
| Pts:Butch Lee – 19 Rebs:Jerome Whitehead – 11 Asts:Bo Ellis – 3 | Pts:Walter Davis – 20 Rebs:Mike O'Koren – 11 Asts:John Kuester – 6 | |