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Men's collegiate basketball season
The 1973–74 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1973, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1974 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 25, 1974, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro , North Carolina . The North Carolina State Wolfpack won its first NCAA national championship with a 76–64 victory over the Marquette Warriors .
Holding or grabbing an opposing player away from the ball became fouls , as did illegal screens.[ 3]
Prior to the beginning of the season, NCAA Division I replaced the NCAA University Division as the subdivision of the NCAA made up of colleges and universities competing at the highest level of college sports. In addition, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III replaced the NCAA College Division for colleges and universities competing at a lower level, with Division II consisting of schools awarding limited athletic scholarships and Division III consisting of schools offering no athletic scholarships.[ 4]
On August 5, 1973, the NCAA handed down a two-year "death penalty " (i.e., ban on competing) to the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ; athletically branded "Louisiana" since the 1999–2000 season ) after discovering over 100 rules violations, the most egregious of which were payments to players and falsified high school transcripts. All other Ragin' Cajun teams were placed on four years' probation and banned from competing for national championships during that period. The NCAA also proposed expelling the university from the organization, but that penalty was reduced to forfeiture of voting rights at the annual convention for three years. Additionally, the Ragin' Cajuns' participation in the 1972 and 1973 University Division tournaments was scrubbed from the record books, and the university was required to return all tournament revenue. Southwestern Louisiana became the first university to have a season cancelled by the NCAA since Kentucky in the 1952–53 season .
In 1973, the first public draw for tickets to the NCAA tournament 's Final Four games took place. The tickets were for the 1974 Final Four .[ 5]
In the Pacific 8 Conference , UCLA won its eighth of what would ultimately be 13 consecutive conference titles.
The top 20 from the AP Poll and UPI Coaches Poll during the pre-season.[ 6] [ 7]
Conference membership changes [ edit ]
Conference winners and tournaments [ edit ]
Conference
Regular season winner[ 8]
Conference player of the year
Conference tournament
Tournament venue (City)
Tournament winner
Atlantic Coast Conference
NC State
David Thompson ,NC State [ 9]
1974 ACC men's basketball tournament
Greensboro Coliseum (Greensboro, North Carolina )
NC State
Big Eight Conference
Kansas
Lon Kruger , Kansas State [ 10]
No Tournament
Big Sky Conference
Idaho State & Montana
None selected
No Tournament
Big Ten Conference
Indiana & Michigan
None selected
No Tournament
Ivy League
Penn
None selected
No Tournament
Mid-American Conference
Ohio
Walter Luckett , Ohio [ 11]
No Tournament
Middle Atlantic Conference
La Salle & Saint Joseph's (East); Rider (West)
Bill Taylor , La Salle , & Earl Brown , Lafayette
No Tournament
Missouri Valley Conference
Louisville
Junior Bridgeman , Louisville
No Tournament
Ohio Valley Conference
Austin Peay & Morehead State
Fly Williams , Austin Peay
No Tournament
Pacific 8 Conference
UCLA
None selected
No Tournament
Pacific Coast Athletic Association
Long Beach State
Leonard Gray , Long Beach State
No Tournament
Southeastern Conference
Alabama & Vanderbilt
Jan van Breda Kolff , Vanderbilt [ 12]
No Tournament
Southern Conference
Furman
Clyde Mayes ,Furman [ 13]
1974 Southern Conference men's basketball tournament
Richmond Coliseum (Richmond, Virginia ) (Semifinals and Finals)
Furman [ 14]
Southland Conference
Arkansas State
Steve Brooks ,Arkansas State [ 15]
No Tournament
Southwest Conference
Texas
Larry Robinson , Texas
No Tournament
West Coast Athletic Conference
San Francisco
Frank Oleynick , Seattle
No Tournament
Western Athletic Conference
New Mexico
None selected
No Tournament
Yankee Conference
Massachusetts
None selected
No Tournament
Conference standings [ edit ]
1973–74 Ivy League men's basketball standings
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
PCT
W
L
PCT
Pennsylvania
13
–
1
.929
21
–
6
.778
Brown
11
–
3
.786
17
–
9
.654
Princeton
11
–
3
.786
16
–
10
.615
Harvard
9
–
5
.643
11
–
13
.458
Yale
5
–
9
.357
8
–
16
.333
Columbia
4
–
10
.286
5
–
20
.200
Dartmouth
2
–
12
.143
4
–
22
.154
Cornell
1
–
13
.071
3
–
23
.115
Rankings from AP Poll
1973–74 Southeastern Conference men's basketball standings
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
PCT
W
L
PCT
No. 14 Alabama
15
–
3
.833
22
–
4
.846
No. 13 Vanderbilt
15
–
3
.833
23
–
5
.821
Tennessee
12
–
6
.667
17
–
9
.654
Ole Miss
9
–
9
.500
15
–
10
.600
Florida
9
–
9
.500
15
–
11
.577
Kentucky
9
–
9
.500
13
–
13
.500
Mississippi State
8
–
10
.444
16
–
10
.615
LSU
6
–
12
.333
12
–
14
.462
Auburn
5
–
13
.278
10
–
16
.385
Georgia
2
–
16
.111
6
–
20
.231
Rankings from AP Poll
1973–74 Southwest Conference men's basketball standings
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
PCT
W
L
PCT
Texas
11
–
3
.786
12
–
15
.444
Texas Tech
10
–
4
.714
17
–
9
.654
SMU
10
–
4
.714
15
–
12
.556
Texas A&M
7
–
7
.500
15
–
11
.577
Arkansas
6
–
8
.429
10
–
16
.385
Baylor
5
–
9
.357
12
–
13
.480
Rice
5
–
9
.357
11
–
17
.393
TCU
2
–
12
.143
8
–
17
.320
Rankings from AP Poll
Division I independents [ edit ]
A total of 81 college teams played as Division I independents . Among them, Notre Dame (26–3) had the best winning percentage (.897) and Providence (28–4) finished with the most wins.[ 23]
Penn finished with a 4–0 record in head-to-head competition among the Philadelphia Big 5.
Statistical leaders [ edit ]
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Post-season tournaments [ edit ]
National semifinals
National finals
E
NC State
80
W
UCLA
77
E
NC State
76
ME
Marquette
64
ME
Marquette
64
MW
Kansas
51
Third place
W
UCLA
78
MW
Kansas
61
National Invitation tournament [ edit ]
Semifinals & finals[ edit ]
Consensus All-American teams [ edit ]
Major player of the year awards [ edit ]
Major coach of the year awards [ edit ]
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A number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.
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