1977 NCAA Division I basketball championship game

1977 NCAA Tournament Championship Game
National championship game
59	67
AP: 5; Coaches: 3;	AP: 7; Coaches: 14;
Date	March 28, 1977
Venue	The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia
Referees	Reggie Copeland & Paul Galvan
Attendance	16,086
United States TV coverage
Network	NBC
Announcers	Curt Gowdy, Dick Enberg, and Billy Packer
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The 1977 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game took place on March 28, 1977, between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Marquette Warriors at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. The matchup was the final one of the thirty-ninth consecutive NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship single-elimination tournament — commonly referred to as the NCAA Tournament — organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and is used to crown a national champion for men's basketball at the Division I level.^[2]

Box score

Source:^[3]^[4]

March 28, 1977

#7 Marquette Warriors 67, #5 North 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

The Omni
Atlanta, Georgia
Attendance: 16,086
Referees: Reggie Copeland & Paul Galvan

^ "The Final Four" (PDF). 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four Records. NCAA. 2014. p. 20. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ Hager 2012, p. 21.
^ Jeff Borzello. "1977 Men's NCAA basketball tournament". CBSSports.com. CBS Broadcasting Inc. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ "North Carolina vs. Marquette Box Score, March 28, 1977". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2014.