04/04/2005 (Championship Monday)
North Carolina has now won a title in 4 different decades which ties Kentucky and Indiana for the most.
Illinois is now 0-4 all-time vs. #1 seeds.
Roy Williams passes Jim Boeheim for #7 in tournament wins. Here is the Top Ten: (active coaches in Bold)
|
|
Coach |
Wins |
Losses |
|
1 |
Krzyzewski, Mike |
66 |
18 |
|
2 |
Smith, Dean |
65 |
27 |
|
3 |
Wooden, John |
47 |
10 |
|
4 |
Olson, Lute |
45 |
26 |
|
|
Knight, Bob |
45 |
24 |
|
6 |
Crum, Denny |
42 |
23 |
|
7 |
Williams, Roy |
41 |
15 |
|
8 |
Boeheim, Jim |
40 |
23 |
|
9 |
Sutton, Eddie |
39 |
26 |
|
10 |
Calhoun, Jim |
38 |
16 |
|
|
Tarkanian, Jerry |
38 |
18 |
Illinois becomes the 20th consecutive team to enter the tournament with 1 loss and not win the Championship.
|
Year |
Team |
Season Wins |
Season Losses |
Round Losing |
Champ |
|
1976 |
Marquette |
25 |
1 |
Elite Eight |
No |
|
1976 |
Nevada-Las Vegas |
28 |
1 |
Sweet Sixteen |
No |
|
1977 |
Arkansas |
26 |
1 |
First Round (Round of 32) |
No |
|
1977 |
San Francisco |
29 |
1 |
First Round (Round of 32) |
No |
|
1980 |
Alcorn State |
27 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1980 |
DePaul |
26 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1981 |
DePaul |
27 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1981 |
Oregon State |
26 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1982 |
DePaul |
26 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1987 |
Nevada-Las Vegas |
33 |
1 |
National Semifinals |
No |
|
1988 |
Temple |
29 |
1 |
Elite Eight |
No |
|
1990 |
La Salle |
29 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1996 |
Massachusetts |
31 |
1 |
National Semifinals |
No |
|
1996 |
Texas Tech |
28 |
1 |
Sweet Sixteen |
No |
|
1997 |
Kansas |
32 |
1 |
Sweet Sixteen |
No |
|
1998 |
Princeton |
26 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
1999 |
Duke |
32 |
1 |
Championship Game |
No |
|
2004 |
St. Joseph's, Pennsylvania |
27 |
1 |
Elite Eight |
No |
|
2004 |
Stanford |
29 |
1 |
Second Round |
No |
|
2005 |
Illinois |
32 |
1 |
Championship Game |
No |
55 teams have entered the tournament with one loss, only 6 have won the championship
|
Year |
Team |
Season Wins |
Season Losses |
|
1955 |
San Francisco |
23 |
1 |
|
1966 |
Texas-El Paso |
23 |
1 |
|
1968 |
UCLA |
25 |
1 |
|
1969 |
UCLA |
25 |
1 |
|
1971 |
UCLA |
25 |
1 |
|
1974 |
North Carolina State |
26 |
1 |
With Roy Williams winning the championship, Eddie Sutton now has the most victories without winning a national championship.
|
Coach |
Wins |
Losses |
| Sutton, Eddie |
39 |
26 |
|
Lewis, Guy |
26 |
18 |
| Chaney, John |
23 |
17 |
| Huggins, Bob |
20 |
15 |
|
Henson, Lou |
19 |
20 |
|
Keady, Gene |
19 |
18 |
|
Majerus, Rick |
18 |
11 |
| Davis, Tom |
18 |
11 |
|
Tubbs, Billy |
18 |
12 |
|
Carnesecca, Lou |
17 |
20 |
|
Phelps, Digger |
17 |
17 |
Facts before today’s game:
Illinois’ victory over Louisville marked the first time they have ever defeated the same school more than once in the NCAA Tournament. Illinois’ first 36 tournament victories were against different schools. Purdue now holds the record for most victories without ever defeating the same school twice with 27.
This is the third time in the last 5 years that Illinois has faced a team from North Carolina in the tournament. They defeated Charlotte 79-61 in the Second Round in 2001 and lost to Duke 72-62 in the Sweet Sixteen last year.
This is the third time in the last 5 years that Roy Williams has faced Illinois in the tournament. As the coach of Kansas, he lost to them 80-64 in the Sweet Sixteen in 2001 and defeated them the next year in the Sweet Sixteen 73-69.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is 3-1 vs. the Big Ten Conference in National Championship games.
|
Year |
Champion |
Runner-Up |
Score |
|
|
1981 |
Indiana |
North Carolina |
63 |
50 |
|
1992 |
Duke |
Michigan |
71 |
51 |
|
1993 |
North Carolina |
Michigan |
77 |
71 |
|
2002 |
Maryland |
Indiana |
64 |
52 |
Roy Williams becomes the 3rd Coach to coach in the National Championship game for 2 different schools. He coached Kansas in the 1991 and 2003 National Championship Games. The other 2 coaches were:
Roy Williams becomes the 1st coach to coach 2 different schools in the National Championship game in 2 different decades.
There have been 12 different schools in the National Championship game in the past 6 tournaments. That is the longest stretch of games in NCAA Tournament history in which every championship game had different teams.
|
Year |
Team |
Opponent |
|
2000 |
Michigan State |
Florida |
|
2001 |
Duke |
Arizona |
|
2002 |
Maryland |
Indiana |
|
2003 |
Syracuse |
Kansas |
|
2004 |
Connecticut |
Georgia Tech |
|
2005 |
Illinois |
North Carolina |
Tonight will have the 6th different champion in the past 6 seasons. The longest stretch in which every champion was a different school was 1982-1991.
|
Year |
Team |
|
1982 |
North Carolina |
|
1983 |
North Carolina State |
|
1984 |
Georgetown |
|
1985 |
Villanova |
|
1986 |
Louisville |
|
1987 |
Indiana |
|
1988 |
Kansas |
|
1989 |
Michigan |
|
1990 |
Nevada-Las Vegas |
|
1991 |
Duke |