1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game

1981 NCAA Tournament Championship Game
National Championship Game
North Carolina Tar Heels Indiana Hoosiers
(29-7) (25-9)
50 63
Head coach: 
Dean Smith		 Head coach: 
Bob Knight
AP
6
AP
9
1 2 Total
North Carolina 26 24 50
Indiana 27 36 63
Date March 30, 1981
Arena The Spectrum
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Referee Ken Lauderdale, Lou Moser, & Booker Turner[1]
United States TV coverage
Network NBC
Announcers Dick Enberg, Billy Packer, and Al McGuire

The 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game took place on March 30, 1981 between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Indiana Hoosiers at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The match-up was the final one of the forty-third consecutive NCAA Men's Division I 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 30, 1981
Indiana Hoosiers 63, North Carolina Tar Heels 50
Scoring by half: 27-26, 36-24
Pts: Isiah Thomas 23
Rebs: Ray Tolbert 11
Asts: James Thomas 8		 Pts: Al Wood 18
Rebs: Sam Perkins 8
Asts: Jimmy Black 6
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Referees: Ken Lauderdale, Lou Moser, & Booker Turner

References

Citations
  1. ↑ "The Final Four" (pdf). 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four Records. NCAA. 2014. p. 20. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hager 2012, p. 21.
  3. ↑ Jeff Borzello. "1981 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament". CBSSports.com. CBS Broadcasting Inc. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ "North Carolina vs. Indiana Box Score, March 30, 1981". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
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