1986 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

1986 NCAA Division I
Men's Basketball Tournament
Season	1985–86
Teams	64
Finals site	Reunion Arena; Dallas, Texas
Champions	Louisville Cardinals (2nd title, 2nd title game,; 7th Final Four)
Runner-up	Duke Blue Devils (3rd title game,; 5th Final Four)
Semifinalists	Kansas Jayhawks (7th Final Four); LSU Tigers (3rd Final Four);
Winning coach	Denny Crum (2nd title)
MOP	Pervis Ellison (Louisville)
Attendance	499,704
Top scorer	Johnny Dawkins Duke; (153 points)
NCAA Division I Men's Tournaments
«1985	1987»

The 1986 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 13, 1986, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in Dallas, Texas. A total of 63 games were played.

Louisville, coached by Denny Crum, won the national title with a 72–69 victory in the final game over Duke, coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Pervis Ellison of Louisville was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Louisville became the first team from outside a power conference to win the championship since the expansion to 64 teams, and remains one of only two teams to do so (the other team was UNLV in 1990).

The 1986 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament was the first tournament to use a shot clock limiting the amount of time for any one offensive possession by a team prior to taking a shot at the basket. Beginning with the 1986 tournament, the shot clock was set at 45 seconds, which it would remain until being shortened to 35 seconds beginning in the 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, and further shortened to 30 seconds (the same as NCAA women's basketball) starting with the 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The 1986 tournament was also the last to not feature the three-point shot.

LSU's 1985–86 team is tied for the lowest-seeded team (#11) to ever make the Final Four with the 2005–06 George Mason Patriots, the 2010–11 VCU Rams, and the 2017–18 Loyola-Chicago Ramblers. As of 2018, they are the only team in tournament history to beat the top 3 seeds from their region. LSU began its run to the Final Four by winning two games on its home court, the LSU Assembly Center, leading to a change two years later which prohibited teams from playing NCAA tournament games on a court which they have played four or more games in the regular season. Cleveland State University became the first #14 seed to reach the Sweet Sixteen, losing to their fellow underdog, Navy, by a single point. This was also the first year in which two #14 seeds reached the second round in the same year, as Arkansas-Little Rock beat #3-seed Notre Dame; however, they lost their second-round game in overtime. Both feats have only occurred one other time. Chattanooga reached the Sweet Sixteen as a 14-seed in 1997, and Old Dominion and Weber State both reached the second round as 14-seeds in 1995.

Every regional final featured a #1 or #2 seed playing a team seeded #6 or lower. The lone #1 seed to not reach the Elite Eight, St. John's (West), was knocked out in the second round by #8 Auburn, which lost to #2 Louisville in the regional final.

It can be argued that these upsets by the 14-seeds launched the NCAA Tournament's reputation for having unknown teams surprise well-known basketball powers, and both happened on the same day. Indiana's stunning loss would be part of the climax in the best-selling book A Season On The Brink.

Another story of the tournament was when Navy reached the Elite 8 thanks to stunning performances by David Robinson. This tournament had no Pac 10 teams advance beyond the round of 64. This did not occur again until 2018.

Locations

Baton Rouge

Dayton

Charlotte

Syracuse

Greensboro

Minneapolis

Long Beach

Ogden

1986 first and second rounds

Houston

Atlanta

Kansas City

E. Rutherford

Dallas

1986 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red)

First & Second Rounds

Region	Site	Venue	Host
East	Greensboro, North Carolina	Greensboro Coliseum	Atlantic Coast Conference
East	Syracuse, New York	Carrier Dome	Syracuse
Midwest	Dayton, Ohio	University of Dayton Arena	Dayton
Midwest	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome	Minnesota
Southeast	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	LSU Assembly Center	Louisiana State
Southeast	Charlotte, North Carolina	Charlotte Coliseum	UNC-Charlotte
West	Long Beach, California	Long Beach Arena	Long Beach State
West	Ogden, Utah	Dee Events Center	Weber State

Regional Sites and Final Four

Region	Site	Venue	Host
East	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Brendan Byrne Arena	Seton Hall
Midwest	Kansas City, Missouri	Kemper Arena	Big 8 Conference
Southeast	Atlanta, Georgia	Omni Coliseum	Georgia Tech
West	Houston, Texas	The Summit	Houston/Rice/Texas Southern
Final Four	Dallas, Texas	Reunion Arena	Southwest Conference

Dallas became the 22nd host city, and Reunion Arena the 24th host venue, for the Final Four. While the city itself has not hosted another Final Four, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex would host again in 2014 at AT&T Stadium. Three of the four venues used for regional sites, and all four host cities, were Final Four host cities; only The Summit did not host a Final Four (all Final Fours in Houston have been at either the Astrodome or NRG Stadium). This also marked the first time that domed stadiums were used in the opening rounds, with Syracuse's Carrier Dome and the Metrodome in Minneapolis hosting games. The Metrodome and the Long Beach Arena were the only new venues this year. While the city of Long Beach itself had not hosted games before, it is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area which has hosted multiple times. Since 1986, every tournament has included at least one domed stadium, something that had only happened five times beforehand (1971 and 1981–84). LSU's Assembly Center, renamed for NCAA career scoring leader and LSU legend Pete Maravich in 1988, hosted for the third and final time, having previously hosted the Mideast regional semifinals and finals in 1976 and the Mideast regional quarterfinals in 1977.

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final opponent	Score
West
West	1	St. John's	Lou Carnesecca	Round of 32	8 Auburn	L 81–65
West	2	Louisville	Denny Crum	Champion	1 Duke	W 72–69
West	3	North Carolina	Dean Smith	Sweet Sixteen	2 Louisville	L 94–79
West	4	UNLV	Jerry Tarkanian	Sweet Sixteen	8 Auburn	L 70–63
West	5	Maryland	Lefty Driesell	Round of 32	4 UNLV	L 70–64
West	6	UAB	Gene Bartow	Round of 32	3 North Carolina	L 77–59
West	7	Bradley	Dick Versace	Round of 32	2 Louisville	L 82–68
West	8	Auburn	Sonny Smith	Regional Runner-up	2 Louisville	L 84–76
West	9	Arizona	Lute Olson	Round of 64	8 Auburn	L 73–63
West	10	UTEP	Don Haskins	Round of 64	7 Bradley	L 83–65
West	11	Missouri	Norm Stewart	Round of 64	6 UAB	L 66–64
West	12	Pepperdine	Jim Harrick	Round of 64	5 Maryland	L 69–64
West	13	Northeast Louisiana	Mike Vining	Round of 64	4 UNLV	L 74–51
West	14	Utah	Lynn Archibald	Round of 64	3 North Carolina	L 84–72
West	15	Drexel	Eddie Burke	Round of 64	2 Louisville	L 93–73
West	16	Montana State	Stu Starner	Round of 64	1 St. John's	L 83–74
Midwest
Midwest	1	Kansas	Larry Brown	National Semifinals	1 Duke	L 71–67
Midwest	2	Michigan	Bill Frieder	Round of 32	7 Iowa State	L 72–69
Midwest	3	Notre Dame	Digger Phelps	Round of 64	14 Arkansas–Little Rock	L 90–83
Midwest	4	Georgetown	John Thompson	Round of 32	5 Michigan State	L 80–68
Midwest	5	Michigan State	Jud Heathcote	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kansas	L 96–86
Midwest	6	NC State	Jim Valvano	Regional Runner-up	1 Kansas	L 75–67
Midwest	7	Iowa State	Johnny Orr	Sweet Sixteen	6 NC State	L 70–66
Midwest	8	Jacksonville	Bob Wenzel	Round of 64	9 Temple	L 61–50
Midwest	9	Temple	John Chaney	Round of 32	1 Kansas	L 65–43
Midwest	10	Miami (OH)	Jerry Peirson	Round of 64	7 Iowa State	L 81–79
Midwest	11	Iowa	George Raveling	Round of 64	6 NC State	L 66–64
Midwest	12	Washington	Andy Russo	Round of 64	5 Michigan State	L 72–70
Midwest	13	Texas Tech	Gerald Myers	Round of 64	4 Georgetown	L 70–64
Midwest	14	Arkansas–Little Rock	Mike Newell	Round of 32	6 NC State	L 80–66
Midwest	15	Akron	Bob Huggins	Round of 64	2 Michigan	L 70–64
Midwest	16	North Carolina A&T	Don Corbett	Round of 64	1 Kansas	L 71–46
Southeast
Southeast	1	Kentucky	Eddie Sutton	Regional Runner-up	11 LSU	L 59–57
Southeast	2	Georgia Tech	Bobby Cremins	Sweet Sixteen	11 LSU	L 70–64
Southeast	3	Memphis State (Vacated)	Dana Kirk	Round of 32	11 LSU	L 83–81
Southeast	4	Illinois	Lou Henson	Round of 32	5 Alabama	L 58–56
Southeast	5	Alabama	Wimp Sanderson	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kentucky	L 68–63
Southeast	6	Purdue	Gene Keady	Round of 64	11 LSU	L 94–87
Southeast	7	Virginia Tech	Charles Moir	Round of 64	10 Villanova	L 71–62
Southeast	8	Western Kentucky	Clem Haskins	Round of 32	1 Kentucky	L 71–64
Southeast	9	Nebraska	Moe Iba	Round of 64	8 Western Kentucky	L 67–59
Southeast	10	Villanova	Rollie Massimino	Round of 32	2 Georgia Tech	L 66–61
Southeast	11	LSU	Dale Brown	National Semifinals	2 Louisville	L 88–77
Southeast	12	Xavier	Pete Gillen	Round of 64	5 Alabama	L 97–80
Southeast	13	Fairfield	Mitch Buonaguro	Round of 64	4 Illinois	L 75–51
Southeast	14	Ball State	Al Brown	Round of 64	3 Memphis State	L 95–63
Southeast	15	Marist	Matt Furjanic	Round of 64	2 Georgia Tech	L 68–53
Southeast	16	Davidson	Bobby Hussey	Round of 64	1 Kentucky	L 75–55
East
East	1	Duke	Mike Krzyzewski	Runner Up	2 Louisville	L 72–69
East	2	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Round of 32	7 Navy	L 97–85
East	3	Indiana	Bob Knight	Round of 64	14 Cleveland State	L 83–79
East	4	Oklahoma	Billy Tubbs	Round of 32	12 DePaul	L 74–69
East	5	Virginia	Terry Holland	Round of 64	12 DePaul	L 72–68
East	6	Saint Joseph's	Jim Boyle	Round of 32	14 Cleveland State	L 75–69
East	7	Navy	Paul Evans	Regional Runner-up	1 Duke	L 71–50
East	8	Old Dominion	Tom Young	Round of 32	1 Duke	L 89–61
East	9	West Virginia	Gale Catlett	Round of 64	8 Old Dominion	L 72–64
East	10	Tulsa	J. D. Barnett	Round of 64	7 Navy	L 87–68
East	11	Richmond	Dick Tarrant	Round of 64	6 Saint Joseph's	L 60–59
East	12	DePaul	Joey Meyer	Sweet Sixteen	1 Duke	L 74–67
East	13	Northeastern	Jim Calhoun	Round of 64	4 Oklahoma	L 80–74
East	14	Cleveland State	Kevin Mackey	Sweet Sixteen	7 Navy	L 71–70
East	15	Brown	Mike Cingiser	Round of 64	2 Syracuse	L 101–52
East	16	Mississippi Valley State	Lafayette Stribling	Round of 64	1 Duke	L 85–78

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

East Regional – East Rutherford, New Jersey

First round			Second round			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals


1	Duke	85

16	Mississippi Valley State	78
			1	Duke	89
Greensboro
			8	Old Dominion	61
8	Old Dominion	72

9	West Virginia	64
						1	Duke	74

						12	DePaul	67
5	Virginia	68

12	DePaul	72
			12	DePaul	74
Greensboro
			4	Oklahoma	69
4	Oklahoma	80

13	Northeastern	74
									1	Duke	71

									7	Navy	50
6	Saint Joseph's	60

11	Richmond	59
			6	Saint Joseph's	69
Syracuse
			14	Cleveland State	75
3	Indiana	79

14	Cleveland State	83
						14	Cleveland State	70

						7	Navy	71
7	Navy	87

10	Tulsa	68
			7	Navy	97
Syracuse
			2	Syracuse	85
2	Syracuse	101

15	Brown	52

Midwest Regional – Kansas City, Missouri

First round			Second round			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals


1	Kansas	71

16	North Carolina A&T	46
			1	Kansas	65
Dayton
			9	Temple	43
8	Jacksonville	50*

9	Temple	61
						1	Kansas	96

						5	Michigan State	86*
5	Michigan State	72

12	Washington	70
			5	Michigan State	80
Dayton
			4	Georgetown	68
4	Georgetown	70

13	Texas Tech	64
									1	Kansas	75

									6	NC State	67
6	NC State	66

11	Iowa	64
			6	NC State	80
Minneapolis
			14	Arkansas–Little Rock	66*
3	Notre Dame	83

14	Arkansas–Little Rock	90
						6	NC State	70

						7	Iowa State	66
7	Iowa State	81

10	Miami (OH)	79*
			7	Iowa State	72
Minneapolis
			2	Michigan	69
2	Michigan	70

15	Akron	64

Southeast Regional – Atlanta, Georgia

First round			Second round			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals


1	Kentucky	75

16	Davidson	55
			1	Kentucky	71
Charlotte
			8	Western Kentucky	64
8	Western Kentucky	67

9	Nebraska	59
						1	Kentucky	68

						5	Alabama	63
5	Alabama	97

12	Xavier	80
			5	Alabama	58
Charlotte
			4	Illinois	56
4	Illinois	75

13	Fairfield	51
									1	Kentucky	57

									11	LSU	59
6	Purdue	87**

11	LSU	94
			11	LSU	83
Baton Rouge
			3	Memphis State	81
3	Memphis State	95

14	Ball State	63
						11	LSU	70

						2	Georgia Tech	64
7	Virginia Tech	62

10	Villanova	71
			10	Villanova	61
Baton Rouge
			2	Georgia Tech	66
2	Georgia Tech	68

15	Marist	53

West Regional – Houston, Texas

First round			Second round			Regional Semifinals			Regional Finals


1	St. John's	83

16	Montana State	74
			1	St. John's	65
Long Beach
			8	Auburn	81
8	Auburn	73

9	Arizona	63
						8	Auburn	70

						4	UNLV	63
5	Maryland	69

12	Pepperdine	64
			5	Maryland	64
Long Beach
			4	UNLV	70
4	UNLV	74

13	Northeast Louisiana	51
									8	Auburn	76

									2	Louisville	84
6	UAB	66

11	Missouri	64
			6	UAB	59
Ogden
			3	North Carolina	77
3	North Carolina	84

14	Utah	72
						3	North Carolina	79

						2	Louisville	94
7	Bradley	83

10	UTEP	65
			7	Bradley	68
Ogden
			2	Louisville	82
2	Louisville	93

15	Drexel	73

Final Four – Dallas, Texas

National Semifinals			National Championship Game


E1	Duke	71

M1	Kansas	67
			E1	Duke	69

			W2	Louisville	72
S11	LSU	77

W2	Louisville	88

Final Four Officials

Joe Forte (LSU-Louisville)
Dick Paparo (LSU-Louisville)
Lenny Wirtz (LSU-Louisville)
Paul Galvan (Kansas-Duke)
John Clougherty (Kansas-Duke)
Tom Fincken (Kansas-Duke)
Hank Nichols (Louisville-Duke)
Pete Pavia (Louisville-Duke)
Don Rutledge (Louisville-Duke)

The 1986 Final Four was the first in which the NCAA assigned a separate three-man crew for the championship game. Previously, three of the six officials from the semifinals were melded into a crew for the championship.

The championship game was the last for future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Hank Nichols, who became the NCAA's national supervisor of officials. The Louisville-Duke matchup was Nichols' sixth championship game assignment.

Announcers

Brent Musburger and Billy Packer – West Regional Semifinal (Louisville–North Carolina) and Regional Final at Houston, Texas; Final Four at Dallas, Texas
Gary Bender and Doug Collins – Second Round at Syracuse, New York and Dayton, Ohio; East Regional at East Rutherford, New Jersey
Dick Stockton and Larry Conley – Southeast Regional at Atlanta, Georgia
Verne Lundquist and James Brown – Midwest Regional Semifinal (Kansas–Michigan State) and Regional Final at Kansas City, Missouri
Fred White and Gary Thompson – Midwest Regional Semifinal (N.C. State–Iowa State) at Kansas City, Missouri
Tom Hammond and Irv Brown – West Regional Semifinal (UNLV–Auburn) at Houston, Texas
Jim Nantz and Bill Raftery – Second Round at Greensboro, North Carolina
Mike Patrick and James Brown – Second Round at Charlotte, North Carolina
Dick Stockton and Billy Packer – First Round (North Carolina–Utah) at Ogden, Utah; Second Round at Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tim Ryan and Lynn Shackleford – Second Round at Ogden, Utah
Verne Lundquist and Larry Conley – First Round (Auburn–Arizona) and Second Round (St. John's–Auburn) at Long Beach, California
Mike Walden and Larry Conley – First Round (Maryland–Pepperdine) and Second Round (UNLV–Maryland) at Long Beach, California
Bob Rathbun and Bucky Waters – First Round (Oklahoma–Northeastern) at Greensboro, North Carolina
Ralph Hacker and Dan Bonner – First Round (Indiana–Cleveland State, Navy–Tulsa) at Syracuse, New York
Mike Patrick and Irv Brown – First Round (Illinois–Fairfield, Kentucky–Davidson) at Charlotte, North Carolina
Jim Thacker and Dave Gavitt – First Round (Western Kentucky–Nebraska) at Charlotte, North Carolina
Tom Hammond and Billy Cunningham – First Round (Georgetown–Texas Tech) at Dayton, Ohio
Frank Herzog and Gary Thompson – First Round (N.C. State–Iowa) at Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frank Fallon and Bob Ortegel – First Round (Bradley–UTEP) at Ogden, Utah

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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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Structure	Selection process Venues No. 1 seeds Opening Round Elite Eight Final Four National Championship Game
Champions & awards	Champions Most Outstanding Player
Media & culture	Bracketology Broadcasting Tournament Final Four March Madness pools "One Shining Moment"
Records & statistics	All-time team records Bids by school Bids by school and conference Consecutive appearances Final Four appearances by school Final Four participants Final Four appearances by coach Upsets

1986 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments
Conference	AMCU-8 ACC Atlantic 10 Big East Big Eight Big Sky Big South CAA East Coast ECAC Metro ECAC North Metro MAAC MCC MEAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Ohio Valley PCAA SEC Southern Southland Southwest SWAC Sun Belt TAAC WAC
National	NCAA NIT