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| Date | April 4, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Kemper Arena,Kansas City, Missouri | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Danny Manning,Kansas | ||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oklahoma by 8 | ||||||||||||
| Referees | John Clougherty, Tim Higgins &Ed Hightower | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 16,392 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Brent Musburger (play-by-play) Billy Packer (color) | ||||||||||||
The1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final round of the1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and determined the national champion for the1987–88 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 4, 1988, atKemper Arena inKansas City, Missouri, and featured the Southeast Regional Champion, #1-seededOklahoma versus the Midwest Regional Champion, #6-seededKansas, both from theBig Eight Conference.
The game remains, as of 2025, the last time two teams from the same conference played for the National Championship. Kansas's upset of Oklahoma was the third-biggest point-spread upset in the national title game in NCAA Tournament history. After the win, the 1988 Kansas team was remembered as"Danny and the Miracles" due toDanny Manning's excellence throughout the tournament, including a double-double in the national championship game with 31 points and 18 rebounds.
Danny Manning, a senior forward, was named theBig Eight Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year for the third consecutive season.
| Kansas | Position | Oklahoma | ||
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| Kevin Pritchard | G | Ricky Grace | ||
| Jeff Gueldner | G | Mookie Blaylock | ||
| Chris Piper | F | Harvey Grant | ||
| Milt Newton | F | Dave Sieger | ||
| †Danny Manning | C | Stacey King | ||
| †1988 Consensus First Team All-American | ||||
Source
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 Full game broadcast by CBS onYouTube |
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April 4, 1988 |
| #MW6Kansas Jayhawks83, #SE1Oklahoma Sooners 79 | ||
| Scoring by half: 50-50, 33-29 | ||
| Pts:Danny Manning 31 Rebs: Danny Manning 18 Asts:Kevin Pritchard,Clint Normore 4 | Pts:Dave Sieger 22 Rebs:Stacey King,Ricky Grace 7 Asts:Dave Sieger,Ricky Grace 7 | |