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1986 NCAA Men's Division I; Basketball Tournament
Teams	64
Finals Site	Reunion Arena; Dallas Texas
Champions	Louisville (2nd title)
Runner-Up	Duke (3rd title game)
Semifinalists	Kansas (7th Final Four); LSU (3rd Final Four)
Winning Coach	Denny Crum (2nd title)
MOP	Pervis Ellison Louisville
Attendance	499,704
Top scorer	Johnny Dawkins Duke; (153 points)
«1985	1987»

The 1986 NCAA Men's Division I 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. This Final Four would also prove memorable as the first of ten appearances by Coach Krzyzewski and began a run of 7 Final Fours in 9 years for Duke.

LSU's 1985-86 team is tied for the lowest-seeded team (#11) to ever make the Final Four (with George Mason's 2005–2006 team). LSU began its run to the Final Four by winning two games on its home court, 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. 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. As of 2009, 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.

[edit] Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Greensboro, North Carolina; Syracuse, New York
Midwest	Kansas City, Missouri	Dayton, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minnesota
Southeast	Atlanta, Georgia	Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Charlotte, North Carolina
West	Houston, Texas	Long Beach, California; Ogden, Utah
Finals	Dallas, Texas

14 seed Cleveland State 83, #3 Indiana 79
14 seed Arkansas-Little Rock 90, #3 Notre Dame 83

It was really these upsets that launched the NCAA Tournament's reputation for having unknown teams surprise well-known 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.” UALR's win over Digger Phelps' boys wasn't in a book, but was just as unexpected and added to the wackiness on a memorable day.

[edit] 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	Elite Eight	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	Northeastern 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	North Carolina State	Jim Valvano	Elite Eight	1 Kansas	L 75-67
Midwest	7	Iowa State	Johnny Orr	Sweet Sixteen	6 North Carolina 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, Ohio	Jerry Peirson	Round of 64	7 Iowa State	L 81-79
Midwest	11	Iowa	George Raveling	Round of 64	6 North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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	Elite Eight	11 LSU	L 59-57
Southeast	2	Georgia Tech	Bobby Cremins	Sweet Sixteen	11 LSU	L 70-64
Southeast	3	Memphis State	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	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	Elite Eight	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

[edit] Bracket

[edit] East region

First round			Second round			Sweet Sixteen			Elite Eight

1	Duke	85
16	Mississippi Valley St	78
			1	Duke	89

			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

			4	Oklahoma	69
4	Oklahoma	80

13	Northeastern	74
									1	Duke	71

									7	Navy	50
6	St Joseph's	60

11	Richmond	59
			6	St Joseph's	69

			14	Cleveland St.	75
3	Indiana	79

14	Cleveland St.	83
						14	Cleveland St.	70

						7	Navy	71
7	Navy	87

10	Tulsa	68
			7	Navy	97

			2	Syracuse	85
2	Syracuse	101

15	Brown	52

[edit] Midwest region

First round			Second round			Sweet Sixteen			Elite Eight

1	Kansas	71
16	North Carolina A&T	46
			1	Kansas	65

			9	Temple	43
8	Jacksonville	50*

9	Temple	61
						1	Kansas	96

						5	Michigan St.	86*
5	Michigan St.	72

12	Washington	70
			5	Michigan St.	80

			4	Georgetown	68
4	Georgetown	70

13	Texas Tech	64
									1	Kansas	75

									6	N.C. State	67
6	N.C. State	66

11	Iowa	64
			6	N.C. State	80

			14	Arkansas Little Rock	66*
3	Notre Dame	83

14	Arkansas Little Rock	90
						6	N.C. State	70

						7	Iowa St.	66
7	Iowa St.	81

10	Miami-OH	79*
			7	Iowa St.	72

			2	Michigan	69
2	Michigan	70

15	Akron	64

[edit] Southeast region

First round			Second round			Sweet Sixteen			Elite Eight

1	Kentucky	75
16	Davidson	55
			1	Kentucky	71

			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

			4	Illinois	56
4	Illinois	75

13	Fairfield	51
									1	Kentucky	57

									11	LSU	59
6	Purdue	87**

11	LSU	94
			11	LSU	83

			3	Memphis St.	81
3	Memphis St.	95

14	Ball St	63
						11	LSU	70

						2	Georgia Tech	64
7	Virginia Tech	62

10	Villanova	71
			10	Villanova	61

			2	Georgia Tech	66
2	Georgia Tech	68

15	Marist	53

[edit] West region

First round			Second round			Sweet Sixteen			Elite Eight

1	St John's	83
16	Montana St	74
			1	St John's	65

			8	Auburn	81
8	Auburn	73

9	Arizona	63
						8	Auburn	70

						4	UNLV	63
5	Maryland	69

12	Pepperdine	64
			5	Maryland	64

			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

			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

			2	Louisville	82
2	Louisville	93

15	Drexel	73

[edit] Final Four

National Semifinals			National Championship Game

E1	Duke	71
M1	Kansas	67
			E1	Duke	69
			W2	Louisville	72
S11	LSU	77
W2	Louisville	88

[edit] Announcers

Brent Musburger or Dick Stockton and Billy Packer
Dick Stockton and Larry Conley
Gary Bender and Doug Collins
Verne Lundquist and James Brown

[edit] External links

1986 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)
HoopsTournament.Net, source for much of the information on this page.

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