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    1971 NCAA Tournament (March Madness)

    

Play In Round    Round of 64    Round of 32    Sweet 16   Elite 8   Final 4

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Winning Team highlighted in Green Box

 First RoundMarch 13

East  REGIONAL
Favorite Site Team Team  Score Star Efforts

WVU Coliseum, Morgantown, West Virginia

 Penn 70, Duquesne 65        
The Palestra, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Villanova 93, St. Joseph's 75        
  Alumni Hall, Jamaica, New York Fordham 105, Furman 74        

Mideast REGIONAL
Favorite Site Team Team  Score Star Efforts
Athletic & Convocation Center, Notre Dame, Indiana Western Kentucky 74, Jacksonville 72
 		    
Athletic & Convocation Center, Notre Dame, Indiana Marquette 62, Miami (Ohio) 47    

 Midwest   REGIONAL
Favorite Site Team Team  Score Star Efforts
  Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston Notre Dame 102, Texas Christian 94
 		      
Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston Houston 72, New Mexico State 69      

West REGIONAL
Favorite Site Team Team

 Score

Star Efforts
  USU Assembly Center, Logan, Utah Brigham Young 91, Utah State 82
 		        
  USU Assembly Center, Logan, Utah Long Beach State 77, Weber State 66        

Regional semifinals, 3rd-place games, and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)

  • March 18 and 20

Sweet 16

 East REGIONAL at Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina
Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts
Penn 79, South Carolina 64
 		      
Villanova 85, Fordham 75      

 Mideast REGIONAL atGeorgia Coliseum, Athens, Georgia
Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts
Western Kentucky 107, Kentucky 83      

Ohio State 60, Marquette 59 		     

 Midwest   REGIONAL at   Levitt Arena, Wichita, Kansas
Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts
  Drake 79, Notre Dame 72 (OT)
 		      
  Kansas 78, Houston 77      

 West  REGIONAL at   Special Events Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts
  UCLA 91, Brigham Young 73
 		      
  Long Beach State 78, Pacific 65      

 

 

Elite 8

Regional Third Place
East: Fordham 100, South Carolina 90
Mideast: Marquette 91, Kentucky 74

Midwest: Houston 119, Notre Dame 106
West: Pacific 84, Brigham Young 81

 East  REGIONAL at

Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts
  Villanova 90, Penn 47


 		  

 

  

  Mideast   REGIONAL at
Favorite Team Team

Score

 Star Efforts

Western Ky. 81, Ohio State 78 (OT)

 

 

  

 Midwest REGIONAL at

Favorite Team Team Score Star Efforts
Kansas 73, Drake 71  

 West REGIONAL at

Favorite Team Team Score Star Efforts
  UCLA 57, Long Beach State 55  

 

  

National semifinals, 3rd-place game, and championship (Final Four and championship)

 

Final 4

at  Houston, TX

NATIONAL SEMI-FINALS
Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts

Villanova 92, Western Kentucky 89 (2OT)
 

  

 

  
  UCLA 68, Kansas 60  

 

  

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

 

National Third Place
Western Kentucky 77, Kansas 75

at Houston, TX

 
Favorite Team Team  Score Star Efforts
UCLA 68, Villanova 62        

 

NCAA Results

 



 

 

 

UCLA leaders: Sidney Wicks, Sr., F; Curtis Rowe, Sr., F; Steve Patterson, Sr., C; Henry Bibby, Jr., G; Terry Schofield, Sr., G


 
Top 10 Teams
Rank Team W-L Post-Season Result
1. UCLA 29-1 NCAA 1st Place
2. Marquette 28-1 Lost NCAA regionals
3 Pennsylvania 28-1 Lost NCAA regionals
4. Kansas 27-3 NCAA 4th Place
5. Southern Cal 24-2 DNP
6. South Carolina 23-6 Lost NCAA regionals
7. West. Kentucky 24-6 NCAA 3rd Place
8. Kentucky 22-6 Lost NCAA regionals
9. Fordham 26-3 Lost NCAA regionals
10. Ohio State 20-6 Lost NCAA regionals
All-America Team
Pos Name Cl. School
F Sidney Wicks Sr. UCLA
C Artis Gilmore Sr. Jacksonville
C Jim McDaniels Sr. West. Kentucky
G Austin Carr Sr. Notre Dame
G Dean Meminger Sr. Marquette


 
All NCAA Tournament Team
Name Cl. Pos Team
Howard Porter Sr. F Villanova
Sidney Wicks Sr. F UCLA
Jim McDaniels Sr. C Western Kentucky
Steve Patterson Sr. C UCLA
Hank Siemiontkowski Jr. C Villanova
Team Offense

Jacksonville 99.9
Notes
  • NIT 1st Place: North Carolina (26-6) def. Georgia Tech for the title.
  • Jacksonville’s Artis Gilmore finished as the first player in major-college history to post career averages of more than 22 points and 22 rebounds.
Team Defense

Fairleigh Dickinson, 53.7
Individual Scoring
1. Johnny Neumann Mississippi 40.1
2. Austin Carr Notre Dame 38.0
3. Willie Humes Idaho State 32.4
4. George McGinnis Indiana 30.0
5. Jim McDaniel West. Kentucky 29.3
6. Rich Rinaldi St. Peter’s 28.6
Individual Rebounding
1. Artis Gilmore Jacksonville 23.2
2. Kermit Washington American 20.5
3. Julius Erving Massachusetts 19.5

 

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